Samsung's Secret Robot Runs on Washing-Machine Parts
The priciest part of a humanoid robot is its motorised joints, up to 60 percent of the build. Samsung already makes those motors by the million for washing machines, and Korean reporting says it has quietly built an in-house humanoid around them. A third playbook in a race usually told as US software versus Chinese manufacturing.
Read full story →Everyone Wants Someone Else to Draw AI's Line
India's top court called AI regulation a matter of policy and declined to act. A think tank argued the law already quietly reserves whole professions for humans. Lawmakers, meanwhile, draft bills with chatbots under rules nobody enforces. The boundary is being drawn by whoever is forced to.
Read full story →The Self-Defeating Logic of the AI Layoff
New research finds the layoffs companies announce to prove AI is paying off are quietly destroying the payoff. The fear they spread wrecks employee sentiment toward AI, one of the strongest predictors of whether the technology actually raises productivity. The efficient move is also the humane one.
Read full story →The Robots Work. Now They Have to Be Insurable.
The constraint on physical AI has shifted from whether a robot can do the job to whether it can be certified, insured, and defended. NVIDIA built an inspection lab, ISO rewrote its robot-safety standard, and insurers are carving AI out of their policies. Value is migrating from the machine to the permission to run it.
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