Facebook just bought a small startup to help it quickly build hardware

Alex HeathSep 19, 2016, 23:48 IST

File photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holding a propeller pod of the solar-powered Aquila drone during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, CaliforniaThomson Reuters

Facebook just bought a startup to help it quickly build and prototype hardware.

The small team behind Nascent Objects will join the secretive Facebook hardware lab known as Building 8 for an undisclosed sum, both companies announced on Monday. Recode first reported the news.

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Nascent Objects owns a "modular electronics platform" that can quickly prototype gadgets using methods like 3D printing.

Building 8 is led by Regina Dugan, the former head of Google's advanced technologies team who Mark Zuckerberg recruited earlier this year to run Facebook's hardware efforts.

Here's a video from Dugan that shows Nascent's software in action:

And here's Nascent Objects CEO Baback Elmieh's full blog post announcing the acquisition:

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Facebook just bought a small startup to help it quickly build hardware