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Just maybe, the robot you actually want isn't a humanoid
You probably didn’t know you needed a robot dog to do yoga with. I didn't know that.
But the man who has shipped more robots into homes than anyone alive is betting that half the projected $5 trillion physical AI market will be for compani...
Watch 100 humanoid robots learn in public
I’m standing in a 300-year old warehouse in Boston where the sailcloth for the USS Constitution (yeah, that Constitution) was made. I’m with about a hundred humanoid robots.
Most of them are failing miserably at their jobs.
They’re called...
The AI-native factory is here. And it's helping onshore (re-shore?) manufacturing
That pic I’m using for this newsletter? Yeah, totally misleading. Because AI in the factory doesn’t mean a factory with all machines, robots, and humanoids doing all the work and AI doing all the thinking.
That’s still science fiction.
We...
GPS is a single point of failure. Someone just fixed that.
Hello quantum navigation. Goodbye GPS spoofing.
Fourteen months ago, quantum navigation didn’t exist. Not in any real sense: it hadn’t been validated, hadn’t been tested, hadn’t been proven outside a pristine lab with floating concrete sla...
Agents are eating software
In the future, all software will be agentic. Smart. Flexible. Kinda human, in fact.
I’ve been covering tech for a long time. Long enough to have watched the hype cycle eat itself, spit itself out, and then demand a second helping. (Thirds,...
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