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The economics of open source vs closed source in AI
Is Hugging Face the Levi Strauss of the AI Gold Rush? Plus iMog is 2025 AgRobot of the Year at World FIRA and who are the latest robot unicorns?
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From The Humanoid Files
The US China war takes shape, manufacturing slows but labor shortages in high mix low volume play to the potential strengths of mobile manipulators aka…
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InOrbit RobotSpace Anniversary
2024 robotics in review from Chris Paxton, another National Robotics Roadmap and Ted Xiao on what's missing in foundation models for robots, plus…
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January 2025

Call for Startups AND Robotics Companies of Global Scale
The IERA Award is looking for submissions, so is Automate, plus if you're studying, why not apply for a Women in Robotics Scholarship! And lots of…
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2025 Robotics Events Worth Knowing About
The calendar that Silicon Valley Robotics and IEEE RAS Industry Activities Board are working from!
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Robots - horizontal or vertical play?
Robotics companies are starting to scale... which way will they go?
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Robotics, labelling, AI, oh my...
Get involved in new robotics standards activities
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Market projections for humanoids range from $38 billion to $24 trillion
Some interesting charts and insight into BOM, supply chain and labor costs
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What CES gets wrong about robots
Let's dive into the media coverage of robots at CES and see what's really interesting. Plus more robots and startups news of course!
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Happy 2025 in Robotics!
Lots of juicy 'robotics year in review' posts as well as all the CES action!
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December 2024

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