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Author - John Koetsier
Physical AI Is Making XR, VR, AR Relevant Again
February 11, 2026
Apptronik Scores $935 Million, Hits Top 3 For Humanoid Robotics Funding
February 11, 2026
AT&T Says SLMs Run At 10% Of The Cost Of LLMs While Being ‘About As...
February 10, 2026
ATT & SLMs: 10% of the cost, all of the accuracy?
February 9, 2026
XR post-hype: what’s next?
February 6, 2026
Smart Rings To Smart Glasses? Fingers Are Great For Oura, But The Face Is...
February 5, 2026
OpenAI Now Using Cerebras’ AI Chips To Code At 1,000 Tokens Per Second
February 5, 2026
AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social...
January 30, 2026
A Robotaxi Hit A Child. Here’s What We Know
January 29, 2026
Another App Store For Robots Launches, Will Have ‘Thousands Of Apps’
January 29, 2026
Robots won’t do chores, with OpenMind CEO Jan Liphardt
January 28, 2026
Generative Hollywood: E! founder Larry Namer on AI
January 26, 2026
Robot reasoning: why data is not enough
January 22, 2026
Check out this $10,000 social humanoid robot for kids
January 15, 2026
AI is now every UI: generative user interfaces explained
January 14, 2026
Apple Is The Fastest-Growing Major Smartphone Maker Globally
January 12, 2026
‘Hey Siri’ Becomes ‘Hey Google’ As Apple And Gemini Get Hitched
January 12, 2026
Top 10 Humanoid Robot Companies By Shipments Revealed
January 9, 2026
This Humanoid Robot Charges Through Its Feet Wirelessly
January 9, 2026
Amazon Agentic Hypocrisy? Agents For Me But Not For Thee
January 7, 2026
The agentic web: awesome or awful?
January 7, 2026
Atlas Humanoid Robots Production ‘Fully Committed’ For 2026, Factory Will Build...
January 6, 2026
World models: LLMs are not enough
January 6, 2026
Agibot Launches 3 Humanoid Robots And Quadruped, Says Has Shipped 5,000 Already
January 5, 2026
LG’s ‘Zero Labor Home’ Might Be Amazing … If You Don’t Have Stairs
January 5, 2026
Quantum computing, meet edge computing (thanks to diamonds)
January 2, 2026
Scientists Give Robots Skin With Pain Sensations And Human-Like Reflexes
January 2, 2026
AI Agents As Engineers: Onshoring Production Back To Europe, North America
December 31, 2025
AI vs Teens: AI Could Wipe Out 27% Of Teen Jobs By 2030
December 30, 2025
AI-Proof Your Career In 2026: Make AI Your Ally, Not Your Enemy
December 30, 2025
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