REFLECTION LABS · THE AUTONOMOUS PCB LINE

From Gerber to a tested board,
autonomously.

One continuous line that fabricates, assembles, and tests printed circuit boards on your bench. Drop in a design — walk away with a working, verified board. No fab house. No two-week wait. No handoffs.

board // rev_C.gbr → reflection line RUNNING · NO OPERATOR
01 · Fabricate
PCB Printer
02 · Assemble
PCB Assembler
03 · Test
PCB Tester
↳ autonomous handoff↳ autonomous handoff

Built for the teams who can't wait on a fab queue

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THE BOTTLENECK

Getting a real board shouldn't take weeks.

You finish a design, zip the Gerbers, and send them into the void. Days pass. A fab makes the bare board. A different shop sources parts and assembles. A third step — if it happens at all — tests it. Each handoff adds a queue, a shipping label, and a chance to ship the wrong thing.

By the time the board lands on your bench, you've forgotten the bug you were chasing. Reflection Labs collapses all three steps into one machine that runs on its own — so iteration happens in hours, in the room you're already standing in.

Day 0Send Gerbers to fab housequeue →
Day 5Bare boards ship to assembler+ freight
Day 11Parts sourced, boards populated+ MOQ
Day 14Boards arrive — one DOA, untestedrestart ↺
ReflectionDesign → fabricated → assembled → tested~3 hrs
THE SYSTEM

Three machines. One continuous line.

Each stage is a complete instrument on its own. Bolt them together and a board flows from copper to verified — untouched by human hands.

STAGE 01

PCB Printer

Fabrication

Mills isolation traces and presses conductive rivets to stitch layers — turning bare substrate into a finished multilayer board in minutes.

  • Up to 4-layer rigid boards
  • 6 mil traces & spacing
  • Automatic via riveting
  • Tool changer, no babysitting
STAGE 02

PCB Assembler

Assembly

A precision pick-and-place head dispenses paste and seats every component from on-board reels, then reflows — fully populated, ready to power.

  • 0402 to fine-pitch QFN
  • Solder-paste jetting
  • Vision-aligned placement
  • Integrated reflow zone
STAGE 03

PCB Tester

Verification

Flying probes and powered functional tests confirm every net, value, and signal — so the board that leaves the line is one you can trust.

  • Flying-probe net check
  • Powered functional test
  • Per-board pass/fail report
  • Feeds fixes back upstream
📐 Gerber in → a single robotic carrier moves the board frame between stages Verified board out
A BOARD'S JOURNEY

Watch one board walk the whole line.

01Import & queue
02Fabricate
03Assemble
04Test & verify
STEP 01 · IMPORT

Drop in your design — the line plans itself.

Import Gerbers, a BOM, and a pick-and-place file. Reflection reads the stack-up, maps every net and part, and builds a job for all three stages at once. No DFM email chains, no re-quoting — the board enters the queue and the line takes it from there.

01 / 04autonomous handoff ↓
WHY IN-HOUSE

Iterate at the speed of your ideas.

When the whole pipeline lives on your bench, everything that used to cost weeks becomes a coffee break.

Hours, not weeks

Design in the morning, hold a tested board by lunch. Run a dozen revisions in the time one fab order used to take.

Your IP stays yours

Nothing leaves the building. No Gerbers emailed to a third party, no BOM shared with a broker. Prototype in full secrecy.

Closed-loop iteration

The tester feeds failures straight back to the printer and assembler. The line learns from every board and tightens itself.

No minimums, no setup fees

Build one board or fifty. There's no MOQ, no tooling charge, and no re-spin penalty for changing your mind.

One throat to choke

One machine, one software, one support team. No finger-pointing between fab, assembly, and test vendors when something's off.

Walk-away autonomy

Start a run and leave. The carrier moves boards between stages, swaps tools, and reports back — no operator standing guard.

UNDER THE HOOD

One line, measured end to end.

≈3 hrs
design → tested board
4
conductive layers
6 mil
min trace / space
0402
smallest passive
100%
nets probed & logged
0
operators per run
1
footprint on your bench
revisions, no MOQ
WHERE IT SHINES

Built for whoever needs the board today.

Close the robotics control loop in an afternoon.

Motor drivers, sensor breakouts, power stages — robotics teams burn weeks waiting on revised control boards. Print, populate, and test a new motor-driver revision before the day's standup, then bolt it onto the robot the same afternoon.

typical board4-layer motor driver
turnaround~3 hours, in-house
verified bypowered functional test

Tune RF geometry without re-quoting a fab.

Antennas and matching networks live or die by trace geometry. Sweep stub lengths and impedance-controlled layouts on real copper, measure on the integrated tester, and converge on a working design in a single sitting — not a single month.

typical board2.4 GHz matching network
trace control6 mil, milled isolation
verified bynet continuity + S-param probe

Give every researcher their own fab line.

University and corporate R&D labs share one machine that fabricates, assembles, and tests — no clean-room, no outside vendor, no purchasing cycle. Students and scientists go from idea to characterized hardware between classes.

typical boardcustom sensor array
accessshared bench, queued jobs
verified byper-board report archived

Hit your milestones without a supply chain.

Early hardware startups can't afford a two-week loop on every spin. Own the entire prototype pipeline, protect your IP from day one, and show investors working, tested boards instead of renderings.

typical boardproduct mainboard, rev A–F
cost modelno MOQ, no NRE per spin
verified byfunctional test before demo
GET STARTED

Bring your next board to life — on your bench.

See the full line fabricate, assemble, and test a board live. Book a 30-minute demo and watch a design become verified hardware end to end.