Avik De

Should Robots Run Like Humans or Ostriches?

Why different animals run differently, and what to take away for bio-inspired robotics

Aug 6 • Avik De

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July 2026

Are Robotics Policies Lookup Tables?

Practically yes, but there might be a solution

Jul 30 • Avik De

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How Thermals Constrain Robots, Chips, and Space Datacenters

Two general principles to understand and defeat overheating

Jul 23 • Avik De

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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 • Avik De and 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 • Avik De

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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 • Avik De

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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 • Avik De

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How an LLM Changes its Mind

Discontinuous changes force a parameter-count / latency tradeoff

May 5 • Avik De

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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 • Avik De and Chris Paxton

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Honor's humanoid ran the fastest half-marathon: how did they do it?

Engineering isn't magic, it's a matter of tradeoffs

Apr 22 • Avik De

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Building a reasoning hierarchical robotics pipeline from scratch

Part 5: A demo combining the best features of end-to-end and classical approaches

Apr 7 • Avik De

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March 2026

The Art of Architectural Analysis: Utilization, Throughput, Latency

Putting TinyXPU Under the Microscope

Published on Chip Insights • Mar 30