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Riveting dispatches from the front lines of robotics. Videos shot in the Silicon Valley area.
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Machina Labs Wants to Make Factories Programmable (opens the original)
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A damaged C-17 recently returned to the air with a RoboFormed structural repair part. Machina Labs made it directly from a digital design, using robots instead of dedicated tooling.<img alt="Article content" class="sizing-normal" height="335" src="https://substackcdn.
A Robot Built to Give Disabled and Elderly Some Independence (opens the original)
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Imagine having an itch on your head but being unable to scratch it. Or wanting a drink, but needing another person to stand beside you and hold it for several minutes. For someone with a significant mobility impairment, completing one of these actions can restore a small but meaningful piece of independence.<div class=
AgiBot Has Produced 15,000 Robots. What Comes Next? (opens the original)
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Last month, AgiBot announced the production of its 15,000th robot. I discovered, while interviewing Peng Chen, Business Development Director for Agibot, that “15,000th” is almost impossible to say.Producing that many robots is difficult too. But it may not be the hardest part. The next test is whether those robots can leave the demonstration stage behind and perform useful work reliably in factories, stores, care facilities, and eventually our homes.Peng’s answer was direct: “We’re in the era co
Restaurant Robots Are Growing Up (opens the original)
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When I first interviewed StarBot at NVIDIA GTC earlier this year, the company was demonstrating a wheeled service robot designed for restaurants. We were having a record heat wave that week in San Jose. It was was 93 degrees and we were in direct sun when the little clip below was recorded, which explains the references to water and air conditioning. Just over three months later, I caught up with engineer Ricky Wu at the Humanity & AGI Summit 2026 at Stanford University, where StarBot was showin
Cheap drone mass-production startup Neros wins $500M Army contract (opens the original)
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Neros Technologies, a startup founded by former teenage drone racers, has secured a Defense Department contract worth up to $500 million to supply first-person-view drones to the U.S. Army, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The deal marks one of the largest Pentagon commitments to low-cost, expendable drone technology from a nontraditional defense contractor.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vMYm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressiv
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