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Agility’s Digit 5, IV with Ilia Baranov on robot safety, OpenRobOps and Automated Happy Hour
or stupid software :-) btw you can purchase this mug at Walmart
Artificial stupidity is still a more existential threat than artificial intelligence IMHO. This rant also has absolutely nothing to do with Agility Robotics, Open Source Safet...
How close to that robot are you willing to get?
AI generated: humans crowding around dancing robots
Our survival skills generally keep us away from heavy vehicles, but these days we tend to flock around those dancing robots. Polymath Robotics CTO Ilia Baranov is bringing safety systems...
Agility launches Digit version 5 and InOrbit launches OpenRobOps
OpenRobOps (ORO), released today by InOrbit.ai, gives robotics developers a production-grade, open-source foundation to escape the build trap, delivering the industry's first ISO 21423 reference implementation and bridging the interoperabil...
The untenable business model of complicated robot pets
Which of these robot business models will work?
There are entire books about the importance of emotional engagement in human-robot interaction or HRI. One of the textbooks for HRI, The Illusion of Life 1, was written by the golden age Di...
🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - August 2026
4x investment so far this year compared to 2025
By my counting, and by many other commentators, 2026 has so far seen 4x the amount of venture investment in robotics than all of 2025. It isn’t all defense oriented either. Some Bay Area comp...
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