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Wednesday 10 June 2026
Column: Robotics' razor's edge is finally cutting into the real world
In early June in Vienna, a robotics startup used its keynote at ICRA 2026 — the International Conference on Robotics and Automation — to show a robotic arm slowly and precisely...
Wednesday 10 June 2026
Column: Computex 2026 shows Taiwan rewriting its role — from building AI to designing it
Computex Taipei 2026, held from June 2 to 5 under the theme "AI Together," drew more than 1,500 exhibitors from 33 countries and set a new record in scale. The show underscored a new...
Thursday 4 June 2026
Japan's robotics legacy faces a new challenge: commercial success
At the close of his keynote address at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Hiroshi Ishiguro — one of the pioneers of humanoid robotics — offered a candid assessment of the industry's...
Monday 1 June 2026
Column: As token costs collapse, AI infrastructure splits into five layers
Falling inference prices and tightening data regulations are pushing AI compute beyond the hyperscale data center — reshaping infrastructure decisions for enterprises, governments,...
Friday 29 May 2026
Column: Embodied reasoning brings robots closer to deeper thinking
Over the past year and a half, reasoning in large language models (LLMs) has become a mainstream capability, with measurable gains across programming, mathematics, law, and healthcare...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Column: Quantum-classical computing's promise meets its hardware limits
AI's rapid evolution — from AI servers to agentic AI and emerging physical AI — centers on high-performance computing, and integrating general fault-tolerant quantum computers...
Monday 25 May 2026
Column: World Models—taxonomy and technical foundations in embodied AI
"World models" have risen swiftly to prominence in AI discourse—and just as quickly become a source of confusion. Over the past two years, the term has grown simultaneously ubiquitous...
Monday 25 May 2026
Column: US summit signals shift to trusted supply chains, reshaping global manufacturing partnerships
At the 2026 SelectUS Investment Summit in Maryland, US officials used the flagship investment forum to outline a national industrial strategy prioritizing supply chain reconstruction...
Saturday 16 May 2026
Column: Orbit are now battlefields—how the world's powers are militarizing space
In April 2024, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) executed one of the most significant overhauls of its military architecture in decades. The former Strategic Support Force was disbanded...
Friday 15 May 2026
Column: The new space arms race is being fought with AI, lasers, and autonomous satellites
The emerging space arms race toward 2030 is no longer defined simply by the number of satellites nations can launch into orbit. Increasingly, it is being shaped by breakthroughs in...
Thursday 14 May 2026
Column: Why robots aren't ready for the real world — yet
Over the past 15 years, several major technological paradigms have crossed the commercial threshold from "zero to one" and into mass adoption.
Wednesday 13 May 2026
Column: Global space race shifts from military to sovereign
The global space and defense industry is undergoing a strategic transformation — from treating space as a force multiplier to claiming it as a domain of sovereign control.
Friday 8 May 2026
Column: The sim-to-real problem—why robots that pass every test still fail on the floor
Simulators are robotics' most seductive shortcut. Spin up a virtual environment, generate millions of training trajectories at near-zero cost, tune the weather, reposition the obstacles,...
Monday 27 April 2026
Column: Where does robot training data come from?
Across both sides of the Pacific, robot startups and leading laboratories have reached a consensus over the past year that model architecture is no longer the sole focus. Data has...
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Column: US drone industry learns from Ukraine's low-cost, rapid production
"The drone is not the weapon. The infrastructure to build it is." This statement, made by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 31, 2026, encapsulates the direction of recent...