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Insights, research, and market intelligence from industry contributors.

Why a nightclub DJ set from Phantom MK1 is more than a stunt and what it reveals about the next phase of humanoid robots in industrial and military settings.

Home robots will not reach mass adoption until embodied AI can learn from enough real world data to work reliably in everyday homes.

Boston Dynamics has owned every layer of its stack for twenty years. On March 12, 2026, it quietly admitted the autonomy race is moving faster than any vertical integrator can keep up, and handed FieldAI the keys to Spot's brain.

In eighteen months, FieldAI went from stealth to unicorn without shipping a robot. The cap table reads like a conviction vote on a very specific thesis: in robotics, the brain is worth more than the body.

Physical Intelligence retrofits vision-language models. Skild AI scales imitation learning. FieldAI took a third road, one that starts from the physics of being wrong, and treats risk as a first-class citizen of the model.