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Thursday 16 July 2026
Column: From K-Semiconductor to AI superpower —How South Korea is taking its next chip leap

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung unveiled the country's Three Mega Projects for AI and Semiconductors in late June 2026, an ambitious...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
Column: Digital AI and Physical AI follow the same growth logic
At a humanoid robotics summit in Tokyo in May 2026, I saw a consulting firm's global labor automation map for Physical AI. After returning, I recreated the same map using the firm's...
Wednesday 24 June 2026
Column: Spain's Multiverse Computing builds case for on-device AI to curb soaring cloud costs

As generative AI moves from pilot projects to large-scale deployment in 2026, enterprises are facing a growing problem: AI bill anx...

Wednesday 24 June 2026
Column: Physical AI commercialization's safety gap

The race to commercialize physical AI and autonomous robots is running into a fundamental challenge: existing robot safety frameworks...

Monday 22 June 2026
Column: Physical AI shifts from feature robots to smart robots
Over the past decade, annual venture capital invested in physical AI and robotics startups has surged from a few hundred million US dollars to nearly US$25 billion, more than a 10x...
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...