Robotics and Physical Automation

Robotics is where AI meets friction. Software can be copied at near-zero marginal cost; a robot has to be manufactured, powered, maintained, insured and trusted around people. That gap between digital and physical is the single most useful lens for reading robotics announcements.

This section covers industrial and warehouse automation, mobile manipulation, humanoid platforms, service and care robotics, and the enabling advances — better perception, learned control policies, cheaper actuators and simulation-to-reality transfer — that have moved the field in the past few years.

It also tracks the constraints: dexterity in unstructured environments, battery energy density, safety certification, unit economics and human acceptance.