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LyonIndustries

The technology work of Christopher Lyon.

Robotics · Space · Offshore · Applied AI · Est. 2014

Cover and recent writing

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Featured · Research25 min read

Agricultural Robotics: The Farm Is Becoming a Control System

A research map of agricultural automation from greenhouse cells and spray drones to autonomous tractors, RTK guidance, ISOBUS, and robot fleets: what already pays, what still breaks, and what infrastructure has to exist before autonomy becomes normal farm capacity.

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White Paper32 min

Low-Cost Field Autonomy Infrastructure

A solar-powered control mast and modular robot backpack architecture that lets farms run supervised robot fleets without a vendor-locked autonomy stack — costed, source-traced, and bounded by named risks.

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Research28 min

Battery Lifecycle Triage: Evidence, Authority, and Decision Risk

A research map of the evidence problem at battery handoff: what data is required at model, pack, shipment, test, and status-change level; which actors have authority; and how repair, reuse, repurposing, remanufacturing, recycling, and waste decisions fail.

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Cookbook14 min

Forge Your Own Blockchain: A First-Principles Cookbook

Build a working proof-of-work blockchain in roughly four hundred lines of Python from four cryptographic primitives - hash functions, digital signatures, Merkle trees, and proof-of-work - and run it end-to-end with real signed attestations and tamper detection.

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The Library

About the work
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Research
Long-form technical studies on robotics, space systems, offshore, and applied AI.
02Section
White Papers
Executive-grade briefings with assumptions, numbers, and decision frames.
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Cookbooks
Applied-science recipes - runnable code with the equations and reasoning underneath.

Research Graph

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Lyon IndustriesResearchWhite PapersCookbooksAgricultural Robotics: The Farm Is Becoming a Control SystemBattery Lifecycle Triage: Evidence, Authority, and Decision…In-Situ Resource Utilization: The Rocks Are Ready, The Ice…Low-Cost Field Autonomy InfrastructureForge Your Own Blockchain: A First-Principles Cookbook

Studio

About the work
04Section
Projects
Working applications, tools, and benches - shipped for the studio and for clients.
05Section
Speaking
Conference talks, panels, and press appearances - the public side of the work.

Projects

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Working applications, tools, and benches - shipped for the studio and for clients. Each entry links to the live surface, the source where available, and the writing behind it.

Speaking

Speaking history →
Christopher Lyon delivering the AI keynote at the Offshore Norge annual conference, Oslo, March 2024.
Offshore Norge Annual Conference 2024● ON STAGE
KeynoteSkur 13, Oslo, Norway

On stage and on the record.

Conference talks, panel appearances, and press across robotics, offshore, space, and applied AI - the public side of the work this studio publishes in full.

Speaking history

Plate Index

11 Plates · Studio Archive

Cover plates from published research, white papers, cookbooks, projects, and speaking. Numbered in publication order; click a plate to open its full surface.

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