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🗞️ Pulse first · 3 news posts
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- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-15 · ✍️ RoboterminalThree Robots Packed Half a Million Orders. None of Them Can Walk.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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AI is on track to become a superhuman hardware designer, but design is only the beginning. The interface between bits and atoms is lossy, and turning designs into real hardware gets harder at every level: 1. Sourcing off-the-shelf parts… |
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What if a single scan could turn an entire factory into a digital twin in just 48 hours? 🏭 Moving Atoms (YC S26) is introducing Scan to Model, converting LiDAR or SLAM scans into separated, measured and editable 3D objects. The output… |
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it’s honestly insane how many pieces of the robotics stack are finally becoming good enough at the same time we now have - cheap high torque actuators - compact motors and gearboxes - better batteries - force and tactile sensing - depth… |
Germany’s Proxima Fusion is developing Stellaris, a stellarator-based fusion power plant. It uses twisted magnetic fields to control superhot plasma, allowing atoms to fuse and release energy. The company aims to bring it online in the… |
The YC Summer 2026 batch just closed. Here is the pattern I keep seeing in it. Three years ago, the batch was dominated by pure software plays. SaaS tooling, dev infrastructure, marketplaces. The common thread: code is the product. This… |
I have been watching the woe and existential crises of SWEs over the past few years thinking to myself, "man, I'm glad I'm a MechE working with atoms instead of bits. It's going to be WAY harder to automate what I do". But seeing the… |
August was a huge month for Physical AI. @UnitreeRobotics reached the public markets. @Figure_robot scaled its global data network with Index. @XPENG_Global Robotics raised $ 900M+. @AGIBOTofficial dominated the World Humanoid Robot Games.… |
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Fifteen years after "software is eating the world," Marc Andreessen's own firm just admitted atoms are eating software's margins. SUMMARY This is not an a16z story. a16z's $1.1B Machine Age Fund is simply the loudest confirmation yet of a… |