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Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.

Agility's Digit V5 drops the safety fence. Factory humanoids are entering open floor work
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Agility's Digit V5 drops the safety fence.…

Digit V5 is built to work shoulder-to-shoulder with people without safety caging, with 20+ hour battery shifts and first customer shipments in December 2026. I mapped what fenceless humanoids change for factory ops and pilot ROI math.

Honor's robot phone puts a motorized gimbal inside a flagship. Embodied AI just got pocket-sized
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Honor's robot phone puts a motorized gimbal…

Honor's Robot Phone ships in China with a titanium 4DoF camera arm, dual 200MP lenses, and YOYO Robot Mode. I broke down what a shipping embodied-AI phone means for perception stacks and third-party dev APIs.

How to implement AI in your business in 2026 (without boiling the ocean)
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How to implement AI in your business…

A step-by-step 2026 playbook: audit one bottleneck, measure a baseline, pilot for real, wire the CRM, then expand. Avoid company-wide AI theater and ship a win in 6–10 weeks.

Mitsubishi is retooling an engine plant to build 1,000 humanoids a month. Japan's old factories are the new robot on-ramp
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Mitsubishi is retooling an engine plant to…

Mitsubishi Motors partnered with University of Tokyo spinout Highlanders to mass-produce HL Human humanoids at a former Kyoto ICE engine plant, targeting up to 1,000 units per month from early 2027. I broke down the builder-plus-buyer model automakers use to skip endless pilots.

Northrop's robot space mechanic bolts propulsion pods onto aging satellites. In-orbit repair is becoming a business
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Northrop's robot space mechanic bolts propulsion pods…

Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle will attach modular propulsion pods to the Optus satellite in 2027, adding roughly six more years of life. I explained how MRV plus MEP pods change satellite servicing economics versus parking whole servicers behind one customer.