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

The Robot ReportResearch

Unusual robotic animals can prove their utility

10.31

Korean researchers have developed a beetle-like soft robot. Source: KAIST When we hear the word “robot,” we still conjure up images of mechanical figures from old science fiction films.

Robotics & physical AI

Read at The Robot Report ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Unusual robotic animals can prove their utility

Related

ResearchHumanoid developer Agility now expects to raise $465M in SPAC deal The Robot Report

ResearchRoboBusiness 2026 recap The Robot Report

ResearchWhite House makes Section 232 determination regarding foreign-made robots The Robot Report

Research2026 Robotics Handbook looks at humanoids, AI, and design choices The Robot Report

ResearchAGIBOT introduces Worken to measure robot productivity at AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026 The Robot Report

ResearchNorth American robot orders climb 24.8% in Q3 of 2026, says A3 The Robot Report