This week: Additive business strategy, Autos dreaming of rockets, Intelligent Island Manufacturing System, CES 2026 delivers, solid state batteries, teleoperated Atlas demo, 1,000 sensors per finger
Interesting curation onthe humanoid deployment paradox. The title perfectly captures whateveryone building these systems faces right now - unit economics look brutal upfront but fleet learning compounds fast. Saw a Siemens demo at CES showing modular palletizing with UR, and the reconfigurablity is where the ROI actually hides, not in direct labor arbitrage.
Thanks for sharing. Reinforcement learning is still in its infancy for embodied AI. If a new architecture breakthrough can start capturing sparse rewards within an industrial environment, the flood gates will open and costs will start to plummet.
Interesting curation onthe humanoid deployment paradox. The title perfectly captures whateveryone building these systems faces right now - unit economics look brutal upfront but fleet learning compounds fast. Saw a Siemens demo at CES showing modular palletizing with UR, and the reconfigurablity is where the ROI actually hides, not in direct labor arbitrage.
Thanks for sharing. Reinforcement learning is still in its infancy for embodied AI. If a new architecture breakthrough can start capturing sparse rewards within an industrial environment, the flood gates will open and costs will start to plummet.