Amodo Design is a hardware engineering company that invents, designs, and builds novel hardware systems to address critical global challenges. Founded in 2022 and based in Sheffield, UK, their team of mechanical, electronic, firmware, and software engineers works with leading startups, universities, governments, and philanthropists. The company is guided by the principle of differential technology development, deliberately accelerating safety-enhancing technologies, and currently focuses on four key fields: AI safety (hardware-level security for advanced AI systems), biosecurity (automated vaccine production, respiratory PPE, building-scale biodefense), humane tech, and accelerating science. They are one of nine ARIA Activation Partners alongside organizations like DeepMind and Convergent Research.
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Amodo believes that engineering and hardware development are critical bottlenecks in addressing existential risks. Their theory of change centers on differential technology development: by deliberately accelerating the creation of safety-enhancing hardware technologies, they aim to ensure that protective capabilities keep pace with or outpace potentially dangerous ones. Specifically, in AI safety, they work on hardware-level security mechanisms (such as the flexHEG architecture) that can provide verifiable, tamper-resistant guarantees about how AI compute is used, enabling effective governance of advanced AI systems. In biosecurity, they develop automated vaccine production and biodefense hardware to strengthen defenses against biological threats. By serving as a technical partner to universities, governments, and safety-focused organizations, they aim to remove engineering bottlenecks that slow critical safety research.
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from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC
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- Mar 18, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC