Priya Nair

Zebra Sells Fetch Robotics to Skild AI After $300M Acquisition Fails

May 1, 2026

Zebra sells its $300M Fetch Robotics acquisition to Skild AI, whose omni-bodied Brain platform aims to unify AMRs, humanoids, and arms under one intelligence layer.

Waymo, Zoox, and the Physical AI Stack Powering Today's Robotaxi Boom

Apr 29, 2026

Waymo tops 150,000 weekly rides as transformer-based AI stacks drive the robotaxi industry from testing to commercial scale — with direct implications for industrial robotics hardware.

Japan's Labor Crisis Is Making Physical AI Real Faster Than Anyone Expected

Apr 23, 2026

Japan's 11 million projected job vacancies are accelerating physical AI deployment beyond pilots — here's what it means for global robotics buyers.

MIT's Wall-Seeing AI Solves Warehouse Robots' Biggest Perception Problem

Apr 23, 2026

MIT's Wave-Former and RISE systems use generative AI with mmWave radar to reconstruct hidden objects and full rooms, boosting robot perception accuracy by up to 2×.