Who is Futuration Systems?

Our History

Pablo Tenaka founded Futuration in 2017 to develop and exploit practical applications of magnetic levitation (Maglev) technology. Tenaka began experimenting with magnets and magnetic levitation as a child and continued his pursuits through MIT before working on defense projects.

The company's proprietary Gen-Lev™ architecture is being applied to transportation, material locating systems and defense applications. Demonstration applications are being used throughout the world to speed up the movement of people, products and transportation. Futuration's maglev capabilities reverse the magnetic polarity of the earth to lift, focus and propel vehicles large and small greater distances with zero friction. 

What is Maglev?

Maglev -- short for magnetic levitation -- trains can trace their roots to technology pioneered at Brookhaven National Laboratory. James Powell and Gordon Danby of Brookhaven received the first patent for a magnetically levitated train design in the late 1960s. The idea came to Powell as he sat in a traffic jam, thinking that there must be a better way to travel on land than cars or traditional trains. He dreamed up the idea of using superconducting magnets to levitate a train car. Superconducting magnets are electromagnets that are cooled to extreme temperatures during use, which dramatically increases the power of the magnetic field.

The first commercially operated high-speed superconducting Maglev train opened in Shanghai in 2004, while others are in operation in Japan and South Korea. In the United States, a number of routes are being explored to connect cities such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

In Maglev, superconducting magnets suspend a train car above a U-shaped concrete guideway. Like ordinary magnets, these magnets repel one another when matching poles face each other. ♦

♦Reference: Energy.gov