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Aisha Patel holds a PhD in robotics from CMU and writes about research. She is skeptical of most startup claims.
TurboMPC and jaxipm tackle the same bottleneck from different angles: getting constrained optimization off the CPU and onto the GPU where the rest of modern robotics already lives.
Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 8 min
AI ModelsEveryone talks about chips and models. The memory bottleneck is the part of the AI buildout that keeps getting underestimated, and Micron's latest earnings make that case hard to ignore.
Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 8 min
New work on exoskeletons, hybrid supervision, humanoid data collection, and vibrotactile sensing all circle the same bottleneck: getting good demonstration data into dexterous robot hands.
Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 10 min
A flow-matching framework for cross-embodiment manipulation and a point-cloud feasibility predictor both land this week. One is genuinely novel. The other is incremental but useful.
Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 10 min
A pair of arXiv preprints tackle the same hard problem in drone control from very different angles. The results are promising, but the gap between 'outdoor experiment' and 'deployed system' remains large.
Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 9 min
A pair of new arXiv preprints take different but complementary approaches to a problem the field has largely been avoiding: how do you formally guarantee the safety of a robot running a foundation model?
Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 9 min
A pair of arXiv preprints tackle one of soft robotics' most stubborn problems: making tendon-driven continuum robots actually track where you tell them to go.
Aisha Patel · 25 Jun · 8 min
Big numbers are flying around digital credit markets. Before we accept the $3 trillion figure at face value, it's worth asking who's making that claim and what assumptions it rests on.
Aisha Patel · 24 Jun · 7 min
A startup called REO says it will sell a pickup truck for $21,500. The price is striking. The evidence for it is less so.
Aisha Patel · 24 Jun · 9 min
The sources provided for this article were about portable power station discounts on Amazon. That is not a robotics or AI story, and publishing it as one would be a disservice to readers.
Aisha Patel · 24 Jun · 1 min
SoftBank's founder dismissed Elon Musk's orbital compute vision this week. The physics and economics mostly back him up, but the debate obscures what actually determines AI leadership.
Aisha Patel · 23 Jun · 7 min
The Trump administration blocked foreign access to Anthropic's top models last week. That's worth understanding in context of what Anthropic says it's actually building toward.
Aisha Patel · 21 Jun · 8 min
A note on source integrity: the provided materials are smart home product deals, not robotics or AI research. Publishing fabricated content would be worse than publishing nothing.
Aisha Patel · 20 Jun · 3 min
Early tests of the new Siri on Mac suggest genuine progress on some fronts, but the gap between Apple's ambitions and its current reality remains wide.
Aisha Patel · 20 Jun · 7 min
A systematic SLAM evaluation and a new forest entrapment dataset both point to the same uncomfortable truth: legged robot perception is still fighting the robot's own body.
Aisha Patel · 19 Jun · 7 min
The sources provided for this article are about consumer power banks, not robotics or AI research. Here is a transparent account of why this piece cannot be written as commissioned.
Aisha Patel · 18 Jun · 3 min
The sources sent my way this week were about smart home discounts. That's not robotics research. Here's what I'd rather be covering instead.
Aisha Patel · 18 Jun · 7 min
New data shows AI chatbot use has surged since 2024, but most Americans remain skeptical the technology is moving at a responsible pace.
Aisha Patel · 18 Jun · 8 min
Google's latest Android release ships with multitasking upgrades and new Pixel AI models, but the marquee Gemini features won't land until late summer at the earliest.
Aisha Patel · 18 Jun · 8 min
When the sources behind an 'AI and robotics' article turn out to be Prime Day laptop deals, it's worth asking what we actually mean by AI coverage.
Aisha Patel · 18 Jun · 6 min
A fine-tuning method called HABC and a video-based evaluation framework called SC3-Eval each address long-standing bottlenecks in deploying vision-language-action models on physical robots.
Aisha Patel · 18 Jun · 10 min
FlowMPC and WAM-RL both attack the same core limitation of behavior cloning from different angles. Here's what the research actually shows.
Aisha Patel · 17 Jun · 9 min
The Antigravity A1 drone is up to 25% off starting June 23. Before you add it to your cart, here's what you should actually know.
Aisha Patel · 17 Jun · 6 min
A cluster of preprints from this week's arXiv suggests the field is converging on a shared bottleneck: retargeting human demonstrations faithfully enough that downstream RL policies actually benefit.
Aisha Patel · 17 Jun · 10 min
