Robotics

Boston Dynamics' Atlas does backflips but can't open doors. Roomba has cleaned 40 million homes. The counterintuitive truth about specialized vs. general AI.

In 1979, Japan's robot boom spawned a prediction: robots in every home by 2000. Forty years later, we're still waiting. The physics problem explains why.

Tesla's Optimus promises a humanoid robot for $20,000. But the real bottleneck isn't AI or legs—it's building a hand that can fold laundry without destruction.

Forget humanoid robots. The machines colonizing our homes are single-purpose, relentless, and already here. Discover why specialization beats generalization.

Japan has 400 robots per 10,000 workers. This isn't about tech enthusiasm—it's a survival strategy driven by demographics and a 3,000-year-old religion.