Repeated Work in Every Design
Every new product or change in requirements takes significant time and effort in design, analysis, and validation.
IDEA OCEAN · INTELLIGENT DESIGN AUTOMATION
Turn Ideas into Products with METHEUS
Your AI Agent for Mechanical Design
From your machine and product requirements, METHEUS quickly runs the whole process, from engineering design and performance validation to the design report.
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Still Facing the Limits of Conventional Design?
Across the manufacturing industry, repeated design work, inconsistent quality, and lost design know-how
drive up development time and cost.
Inconsistent Design Quality
Review criteria and results easily vary with the product and the engineer in charge.
Scattered Design Knowledge
When design rationale and results aren’t organized, past experience is hard to reuse in the next design.
Rethinking Conventional Design with 20+ Years of Research
and Our Own Design Automation Technology
METHEUS connects design, analysis, review, reporting, and knowledge capture in one flow.
DIFFERENTIATION
AI-Based Generative Design for Machines and Products
Run the whole machine and product design process with ease through METHEUS, the AI agent that overcomes the limits of conventional design.
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20+ Years of Research at SNU IDeA Lab
See the technology we have built through design automation research since 1998, such as mechanism synthesis and optimization, in our publications and patents.
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Design Solutions Validated by Major Companies
We have applied our own design automation technology to a wide range of design projects for major companies such as Hyundai Motor Company, Samsung Electronics, and HD Hyundai.
View our projects →Meet Our AI Agent and Platform
METHEUS for design automation, and METHEUS HUB, where ideas become products.
AI Agent
METHEUS
AI Agent for Mechanical and Product Design
Tell METHEUS what you want to design, and it designs the product and generates the 3D CAD assembly and report automatically. The beta currently works with FreeCAD.
Idea input → Automated design → 3D CAD & report output
Platform
METHEUS HUB(Coming Soon)
The platform where every idea meets a product
A place where anyone can turn ideas into products and share them. Share what you want to make and what you have made, and take them through fabrication, sales, and delivery.
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Design Research and Projects Since 1998
Building on mechanism design and automation research at SNU IDeA Lab, IDeA Ocean has proven its technology across a wide range of industry projects.
13
Completed projects
IDeA Ocean · 2023-2026
15
Research projects
SNU IDeA Lab · 1998-2023
1998to now
Mechanism design & automation research
SNU IDeA Lab → IDeA Ocean
2026.03 - 2026.09
Vehicle Body Exterior Mechanical Units (3 projects)
IDeA Ocean
2025.05 - 2025.08
Prosthetic Finger Mechanism
IDeA Ocean
2025.04 - 2025.11
Mechanical Unit for an AI Robotic Camera
IDeA Ocean
2025.04 - 2025.09
Attachment Module for a Home Cleaning Robot
IDeA Ocean
Product Development Solutions from Concept to Prototype
We provide services from machine and product design to prototype fabrication.