Who Signs the Test Report for a Robot?
Every product I ever tested ended in the same place: a test report with a signature on it. The signature mattered more than the data. It said someone qualified …
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Changeover Time Is the Spec Nobody Quotes
Every robot spec sheet quotes speed, payload and accuracy. Almost none quote the number that decides how much a station actually makes: how long it takes to …
Read more →Hardware Is AI's Teeth: Robots Are Building the AI Buildout
“If AI is going to eat the world, hardware will be its teeth.” Haomiao Huang, a founding partner at Matter Venture Partners, said that when the firm …
Read more →The Robot Is the Next Node in Your House Cluster
In the first post of my house series, I asked you to count the connected things in your house . Then we walked through it room by room . TVs, routers, cameras, …
Read more →Monitor a Humanoid Like a Production Service
I was the second SE at Datadog. For years my job was helping teams answer one question about their systems: is it working, and how do you know? I’ve been …
Read more →Two Percent a Year: The Slow Curve Behind the Robot Headlines
The scariest robot charts go up and to the right. The most useful one in Anthropic’s report goes up slowly. Here it is in one line: each year, robots …
Read more →The Last 20 Percent: What Robots and LLMs Still Can't Do
Here’s the number from Anthropic’s robot report that I keep coming back to: about 80% of job tasks, by working time, are exposed to either robots or …
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The Hard Part Is the Hands: Why Sensing and Touch Hold Robots Back
Here’s a list that surprises people. In Anthropic’s report What work can robots do? , nine of the ten most exposed occupations are vehicle …
Read more →The 20-Hour Robot: Duty Cycle Decides Robot ROI
Everyone wants to talk about the robot’s brain. I want to talk about its battery. On October 15, Agility Robotics announced that Nyobolt is the battery …
Read more →Capable Isn't Cheap: Reading Anthropic's Robot Report Like a Test Engineer
Every week there’s a new headline that says robots are coming for our jobs. This week most of them came from one report. On September 30, Anthropic …
Read more →Room by room: what a self-copying AI could do in your house
Last week I asked you to count the connected things in your house . Parks Associates says the average US internet household has about 17 (source ). This week we …
Read more →The house is full of computers now. Anthropic just showed what an AI could do with them.
Count the connected things in your house. The TV. The doorbell. The robot vacuum. The thermostat. The router blinking in the closet. Parks Associates puts the …
Read more →LLM Robot Fleet Governance with agentgateway
I built a simulated warehouse robot fleet where LLMs do the planning and every piece of traffic that crosses the network runs through one open source gateway. …
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