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Robots That Lift Heavy Things Must Cover Their Faces
Spec sheets optimize for lifting, not looking human when you run
Sep 24
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Did ENIAC Have the Right Idea All Along?
ENIAC’s plugboards lost to EDVAC’s stored programs, but are resurgent in the age of AI
Sep 10
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Bharath Suresh
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August 2026
On-Chip Flying Robot Estimation At 2 Milliwatts
The Navion project shows that physics-informed design and numerical solvers can deliver enormous leaps in power-efficiency
Aug 26
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Should Robots Run Like Humans or Ostriches?
Why different animals run differently, and what to take away for bio-inspired robotics
Aug 6
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July 2026
Are Robotics Policies Lookup Tables?
Practically yes, but there might be a solution
Jul 30
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How Thermals Constrain Robots, Chips, and Space Datacenters
Two general principles to understand and defeat overheating
Jul 23
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June 2026
What an Alternate History of the RISC vs. CISC Debate Teaches Us About Robotics
Remove the compiler layer, and RISC's ecosystem advantages invert
Jun 18
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Avik De
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Bharath Suresh
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Action Tokens: Fine-Grained vs. Behavioral Primitives
Why the LLM tokenization debate matters for physical AI, and what biology tells us
Jun 3
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May 2026
The Loops and Hierarchies of Embodied Intelligence
Can we get embodied intelligence by connecting cameras and motors to an AI brain?
May 27
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A Multi-Robot Brain is not like a Multi-Chip ISA
"Cross-embodiment" trained policies generalize well, but is that the best solution?
May 15
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How an LLM Changes its Mind
Discontinuous changes force a parameter-count / latency tradeoff
May 5
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April 2026
The First Paradigm in Robotics & AI Research: Lessons from Computer Engineering
Commoditization and end-to-end learning have consolidated robotics and AI. What's next for research labs?
Apr 29
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Chris Paxton
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