The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo

← Accept All Archive

AI Business

Humanoid bottlenecks emerge amid US-China tensions

10.12

Rising production volumes are increasing pressure on suppliers, while U.S.-China tensions could make it harder for Western manufacturers to secure alternatives to Chinese suppliers.

Robotics & physical AI

Read at AI Business ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Humanoid bottlenecks emerge amid US-China tensions

Related

SiliconLearning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots IEEE Spectrum AI

ResearchVideo Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Fun Turn IEEE Spectrum Robotics

Silicon5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models NVIDIA Technical Blog

ResearchThis Disembodied Hand Is All the Robot You Need IEEE Spectrum Robotics

SiliconThe Machines that Make the Machines NVIDIA Technical Blog

SiliconHiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction IEEE Spectrum AI