The Body Problem
Divyansh KaushikWhat happens when AI gets a body? My thoughts on robotics governance, supply chains, and the strategic competition. Follow me on X: @dkaushik96
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The Bridge
In 1948, John Parsons, a manufacturer in Traverse City, Michigan, won an Air Force contract to produce helicopter rotor blade templates whose curves were too complex for manual machining to replicate at the precision the military demanded....
Making It Bankable
This is a dispatch of The Body Problem — my thoughts on robotics and the future of governance. If you read the fifth essay, "Scarcity Was the Operating System," you encountered the argument that the United States needs more automatio...
Designed In
In April 2025, two security researchers published what they had found inside a Unitree robot dog. The Go1 is a quadruped about the size of a beagle, popular with university robotics labs and increasingly with law enforcement. The researcher...
Scarcity Was the Operating System
Not the kind of operating system that runs on a computer. The kind that runs on a civilization. The underlying set of assumptions — so deeply embedded they are invisible — that determine how every institution is structured, how every incent...
Sinew
This is the first dispatch of The Body Problem — my thoughts on robotics and the future of governance. If you read the second essay, "Intelligence Wants a Body," you encountered the claim that the supply chain for embodied AI is structurall...
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