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Aisha Patel holds a PhD in robotics from CMU and writes about research. She is skeptical of most startup claims.
AI ModelsTwo stories about data center infrastructure landed this week, and together they say something uncomfortable about where AI's energy appetite is taking us.
Aisha Patel · 7 hours ago · 8 min
AI ModelsCoverage of Bitcoin's latest slide keeps bleeding into tech and AI beats. Here's why that framing deserves more scrutiny than it's getting.
Aisha Patel · 8 hours ago · 6 min
AI ModelsThe payments company is betting a dollar-pegged token can get it into markets where traditional rails are slow and expensive. Whether that logic holds up is another question.
Aisha Patel · 14 hours ago · 6 min
RAM and MiDiGap approach the problem of making robots work across different bodies and tasks in genuinely distinct ways. One is infrastructure; the other is policy learning. Together they sketch something interesting.
Aisha Patel · Yesterday · 9 min
A pair of fresh arXiv preprints tackle the tension between real-time planning and honest uncertainty in self-driving systems. Neither is a silver bullet, but the ideas are worth examining carefully.
Aisha Patel · Yesterday · 8 min
FiberTune and APT each tackle a different failure mode in vision-language-action model training. Understanding why they matter requires knowing what they're actually solving.
Aisha Patel · Yesterday · 9 min
Most coverage framed Beijing's 2 trillion yuan data center push as a geopolitical flex. The research implications are more complicated than that.
Aisha Patel · 2 days ago · 7 min
A calibration fix for the da Vinci's notorious encoder drift, and the first autonomous clip placement on a phantom. Both are real progress. Neither is ready for the OR.
Aisha Patel · 2 days ago · 7 min
Three new papers suggest we're finally figuring out how to make humanoid robots move without programming every gesture by hand.
Aisha Patel · 2 days ago · 9 min
The collaboration hints at where large enterprises are placing their bets on AI automation, though the technical details remain frustratingly sparse.
Aisha Patel · 3 days ago · 6 min
Two massive financing deals signal that the AI funding model itself is evolving, though whether that's sustainable remains genuinely unclear.
Aisha Patel · 3 days ago · 6 min
Two new papers reveal how world models, the hot new tool for generating robot training data, can be poisoned in ways that slip past every existing safety check.
Aisha Patel · 3 days ago · 9 min
IR-SIM and HA-VLN 2.0 take different approaches to the same challenge, and both reveal how far we still have to go.
Aisha Patel · 3 days ago · 6 min
New work from separate teams tackles the same problem from opposite directions, and the results reveal something important about where humanoid control is actually headed.
Aisha Patel · 3 days ago · 8 min
Cross-view fusion and energy-based models offer different solutions to occlusion, but both papers reveal how far we still are from solved grasping.
Aisha Patel · 3 days ago · 9 min
New audit data shows most factories can't meet working hour standards, and it's raising uncomfortable questions about whether robots are part of the solution or just a convenient excuse.
Aisha Patel · 4 days ago · 7 min
A new analyst forecast suggests hyperscalers have no real alternatives, but the reasoning deserves closer scrutiny.
Aisha Patel · 5 days ago · 5 min
Two new papers suggest that camera motion, long treated as noise, might be the key to unlocking human video for robot pretraining.
Aisha Patel · 6 days ago · 6 min
The index provider rejected proposals for fast-track entry, which means even the most valuable private company on Earth plays by the same rules as everyone else.
Aisha Patel · 6 days ago · 5 min
A rusted International Scout sold for ten dollars on Bring a Trailer, and honestly, it's a better metaphor for AV market corrections than any analyst report I've read this quarter.
Aisha Patel · 6 days ago · 6 min
Analysts are modeling 100x revenue growth for SpaceX's AI division by 2030. The methodology behind these projections remains frustratingly opaque.
Aisha Patel · 6 days ago · 5 min
ContactExplorer and MotionDisco offer different approaches to dexterous manipulation, and both reveal how far we still have to go.
Aisha Patel · 5 Jun · 9 min
PerceptTwin and VASO take different approaches to verification, but both acknowledge that 'it worked once' isn't good enough for physical systems.
Aisha Patel · 5 Jun · 6 min
ROP-RAS3 and VOPP represent genuine algorithmic progress for partially observable planning, though the robotics community should temper its excitement until we see more diverse benchmarks.
Aisha Patel · 5 Jun · 9 min
