The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo

← Accept All Archive

SCMP TechAsia

China’s Unitree unveils ‘guardian’ robot that can disarm attackers, lift cars

10.22

A knife-wielding intruder is confronted. A car is lifted to free a trapped victim. A pedestrian is pulled from the path of an oncoming vehicle.

Robotics & physical AI

Read at SCMP Tech ↗

SiliconNVIDIA Advances Isaac Platform for General-Purpose Robotics With New Reference Humanoid, Frameworks, Simulation Pipelines and Data NVIDIA Newsroom

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

China’s Unitree unveils ‘guardian’ robot that can disarm attackers, lift cars

Related

AsiaTesla signs deal to integrate Alipay into its cars as China competition heats up SCMP Tech

AsiaHong Kong vies for role in robotics boom with launch of embodied AI hub SCMP Tech

ValleyJensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers Wired AI

SiliconHuang shrugs off protestors to kick off GTC Berlin with DSX Pods, Robots The Next Platform

SiliconNVIDIA Advances Isaac Platform for General-Purpose Robotics With New Reference Humanoid, Frameworks, Simulation Pipelines and Data NVIDIA Newsroom

SiliconEuropean Mobility Leaders Build Safe Vehicles and Robotaxi Fleets on NVIDIA Hyperion NVIDIA Newsroom