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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.
IndustrialThe Apple supplier priced its shares at the maximum and still had to turn away demand, which tells you something about where hardware money is flowing right now.
James Chen · 25 Jun · 5 min
IndustrialAmazon's CEO made his first India trip and left behind a $13 billion AI commitment and an aggressive quick-commerce expansion. The numbers are real. The execution is the hard part.
James Chen · 25 Jun · 6 min
A wave of arXiv preprints this week tackles one of manipulation's oldest problems: how do you get a robot to learn from imperfect, incomplete, or just plain missing data?
James Chen · 25 Jun · 5 min
Separate research teams have published fault-tolerant control frameworks for legged robots this week, and the approaches are different enough to be worth comparing.
James Chen · 25 Jun · 5 min
A burst of new research tackles one of robotics' oldest hardware headaches: how do you give a robot a reliable sense of touch without the sensors that keep breaking?
James Chen · 25 Jun · 6 min
A cluster of new robotics research tackles cloth manipulation, VLA latency, and humanoid locomotion. The results are genuinely interesting, though production-ready is still a ways off.
James Chen · 25 Jun · 7 min
Four new papers from robotics researchers tackle one of RL's most stubborn bottlenecks, and the approaches are more varied and more interesting than the headlines suggest.
James Chen · 25 Jun · 7 min
Those cheap OBD2 boxes promising 20-35% fuel savings aren't just useless, they can actively damage your car's electronics. A look at why the hardware doesn't work.
James Chen · 24 Jun · 6 min
Not every Prime Day badge means a real deal. We looked at the price histories so you don't have to.
James Chen · 24 Jun · 4 min
We were handed three ZDNet TV discount roundups and asked to write a robotics story. That's not how this works.
James Chen · 23 Jun · 2 min
Meta is investing $900 million into Indian fintech Cred and handing WhatsApp's leadership to its founder. That's a lot riding on one cold email.
James Chen · 23 Jun · 3 min
The sources provided for this article are about Prime Day smartwatch deals. That has nothing to do with industrial automation. Here's why we're not running a fabricated piece.
James Chen · 23 Jun · 1 min
Meta is going down-market with its first own-brand smart glasses, cutting out Ray-Ban. For industrial automation, the more interesting question is whether any of this matters on the factory floor.
James Chen · 23 Jun · 4 min
Consumer ice makers are getting stress-tested in real kitchens, and the durability numbers are more interesting than the marketing suggests.
James Chen · 23 Jun · 3 min
The sources provided for this piece contain no robotics or automation news. Here's why that matters, and what we're doing about it.
James Chen · 23 Jun · 2 min
OpenAI is deploying GPT-5.5-Cyber and a new initiative called Patch the Planet to automatically find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software. The ambition is real. The execution questions are bigger.
James Chen · 22 Jun · 3 min
A senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments says the AI spending boom is picking up speed, not plateauing, and that tech's rally has at least two more quarters of runway.
James Chen · 22 Jun · 6 min
Fresh off a record-breaking public offering, SpaceX is tapping the high-grade debt market for the first time to bankroll its AI push.
James Chen · 22 Jun · 4 min
Ring doorbells at 60% off are nice, but the real story in consumer automation is what Amazon isn't discounting.
James Chen · 21 Jun · 7 min
A pair of new open-source trackers from SDU-VelKoTek use hybrid stochastic-deterministic methods to keep tabs on multiple moving targets, even when detectors are weak and occlusions are messy.
James Chen · 21 Jun · 6 min
Flow-based robot policies are powerful but produce latency that breaks real-time control. Three research teams just published different fixes, and the approaches are more distinct than the headlines suggest.
James Chen · 20 Jun · 5 min
A pair of arXiv papers tackle one of industrial robotics' nastiest unsolved problems: how do you get a robot to obey safety specifications when the world refuses to cooperate?
James Chen · 20 Jun · 8 min
The SpaceX debut is being called a 'distribution event' for private markets. For industrial automation companies still waiting on patient capital, the timing matters.
James Chen · 20 Jun · 5 min
Jeremy Grantham is comparing AI to the dot-com crash. He's not entirely wrong, but the coverage is missing the part that matters most for industrial automation.
James Chen · 19 Jun · 6 min
