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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...
Wednesday 15 April 2026
Column: How do intelligent robots learn action skills?
Flipping an egg takes less than two seconds, but every step involves continuous sensing, judgment, and force control; spreading jam and arranging plates are the same. The difficulty...
Friday 10 April 2026
Column: Corintis uses algorithms to target chip hotspots for precise cooling
As HPC and AI processors push computing performance to unprecedented levels, transistor density has reached a point where thermal behavior is no longer uniform. Instead of gradual,...
Thursday 9 April 2026
Column: Embodied AI reshapes real-world automation marks ChatGPT moment for robots
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated three surprising capabilities in recent years: generalization—providing reasonable answers to unseen questions; multitasking—handling...
Thursday 2 April 2026
Column: How US states are rolling out red carpet for drone makers
The drone industry is no longer a niche corner of the defense world — it has become a full-blown industrial race. Across the US, states are competing to attract manufacturers,...
Sunday 22 March 2026
Column: Drones redefine warfare, and the US wants to control who builds them
Drones are rapidly transforming modern warfare, offering relatively low-cost alternatives to traditional weapons while driving changes across defense supply chains. Small unmanned...
Thursday 19 March 2026
Column: OpenClaw pulls AI from cloud to the edge
OpenClaw's rapid rise has pushed "lobster-raising" from a niche developer trend into a cross-industry race spanning chips, hardware, and end devices.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Column: OpenClaw ignites China's AI agent land grab
OpenClaw's "lobster-raising" wave is moving from developers into China's internet and software sectors at speed in early 2026. Unlike earlier large-model races centred on parameters...
Thursday 19 March 2026
Column: Cheap tokens are masking an expensive problem
The cost of running an AI query has fallen by roughly 99% over the past two years. That should be a story about savings. Instead, it's a story about demand.