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James Chen is a robotics reporter who spent 5 years in hardware engineering at Fanuc before switching to journalism. He writes about industrial automation and tweets too much.
HumanoidsThe Chinese robotics company has landed an unexpected customer in the European auto sector, marking a significant milestone for affordable humanoid robots in industrial settings.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
ConsumerThe electronics giant is betting that consumers want more than a vacuum. They want a robot that can navigate their homes like a person would.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
ResearchResearchers have created a sensor dense enough to let machines distinguish between fabrics by feel alone, opening doors for robots in textile sorting, healthcare, and domestic tasks.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
The partnership will let companies run Codex, OpenAI's software engineering agent, on their own infrastructure rather than in the cloud.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 3 min
A breakthrough in sim-to-real transfer could dramatically accelerate how quickly robots learn new tasks, eliminating the need for costly real-world training data.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
The AI platform that democratised language models now wants to do the same for physical robots. Within a week, 200 policy checkpoints landed on the new hub.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
New educational resources detail how the company handles personal data in training and gives users control over their conversations.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
The AI company has announced sovereign infrastructure deals with the UK, India, Australia, and Singapore within weeks of each other, signaling a new phase of international deployment.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 3 min
The AI giant and its biggest backer have signed a new agreement designed to simplify their relationship and provide stability as both companies push toward more advanced systems.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
Actuarial demands for safety data are creating an unexpected bottleneck in the AV industry, favouring established players with years of driving records over newer entrants.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
The open-source robot operating system has quietly matured into a serious industrial platform, drawing comparisons to Linux's transformation of enterprise computing.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 1 min
The logistics giant is running a head-to-head comparison that could reveal whether humanoid pickers are ready to compete with established systems, or still years away from practical deployment.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
New analysis reveals that integration, training, and organizational change consume up to 70 percent of humanoid deployment costs, reshaping how companies should budget for robotic workers.
James Chen · 2 hours ago · 2 min
A government white paper outlines an ambitious deployment goal that would position Japan as the global leader in humanoid manufacturing integration.
James Chen · 4 hours ago · 2 min
Government subsidies and streamlined regulations have quietly transformed India into an unlikely global leader in autonomous aerial logistics.
James Chen · 9 hours ago · 2 min
The AI research lab is forging new alliances with Singapore's government and major consulting firms to bring frontier AI capabilities to healthcare, education, sustainability, and enterprise transformation.
James Chen · 11 hours ago · 2 min
