From human intent to machine action.
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Writing
Selling Robots with a Deadline
Why the market for general purpose robots is squeezed from both sides, and why distribution rather than capability is what decides who survives it.
13 Aug 2026 →
Why Scaling Alone Won't Get Us to General Purpose Robots
Why I don't think end to end VLAs will get us to general purpose robots, and why hybrid architectures will.
22 Apr 2026 →
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Team
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Built along the way
Building a robotics company throws up problems that aren’t robotics problems. Most get a scrappy fix and stay in the drawer. Occasionally one turns out to be worth doing properly, and those end up here.
Otto · I use this one daily→
Otto, your digital robot
Everything a robot should be, except embodied. It perceives, decides, acts, and remembers, without being told each step. The screen is its sensor and the browser is its world, which makes it the same control problem as the machines that move.
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