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BEAMTEAM

BEAMTEAM is a self-driving optical engineering system that turns a published figure into a buildable, verified laser-optics bench in under three minutes.

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Core trick

Parallel agents extract a layout from a paper figure, then a deterministic beam tracer checks power, polarization and laser safety before export.

Tags

sciencerobotics/hardware

Description

BEAMTEAM is a self-driving optical engineering system that turns a published figure into a buildable, verified laser-optics bench in under three minutes. Laying out a quantum-physics bench normally takes weeks, and mistakes show up on the table. With BEAMTEAM you search arXiv and pick a figure. Gemini Argon agents read it in parallel and synthesize a layout, and a physics engine checks every beam for power, polarization and laser safety. Parts fly onto a live 3D bench, get aligned automatically, and ship as a build kit: bill of materials, printable keyed baseplates and an assembly PDF. Built in one day with Claude Code and Gemini Argon subagents.
elevenarms/beamteam★ 00 forksPythonMITCreated Oct 25, 2026 · last push Oct 25, 2026

README excerpt

# BEAMTEAM

**From a published figure to a buildable, verified laser-optics bench — in under three minutes.**

BEAMTEAM is a multi-agent system (Google Gemini `gemini-4-argon`) that designs tabletop optical setups for
atomic/quantum physics labs from a natural-language goal, or reproduces them from a figure in a paper. Every
design is checked by a deterministic physics tracer — the LLMs propose, the physics disposes — then aligned,
rendered, and exported as a build kit (bill of materials, printable keyed baseplate, assembly PDF).

Built in one day at a hackathon (2026-10-25). See [Provenance](#provenance-built-today-vs-pre-existing).

**[Project page](https://elevenarms.github.io/beamteam/) · [Paper (PDF)](paper/main.pdf) · [60 s demo video](demo/video/beamline_demo_60s.mp4)**

<p align="center">
  <img src="docs/assets/img/shot_flyin_figure.webp" width="49%" alt="A paper figure floats above the 3D optical table while vision agents box its components">
  <img src="docs/assets/img/shot_tuning.webp" width="49%" alt="Tuning tour: the camera visits each optic while a live power meter climbs">
</p>
<p align="center"><sub>Left: a figure from a published paper floats above the bench while three vision agents box its parts. Right: after the parts fly in, the alignment tuner walks each knob back to optimum.</sub></p>

## Gallery

### The app

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| ![Lab-grade top-view schematic with inspector and verify report](docs/assets/img/shot_top_inspector.webp) | ![Agent console wi

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