When Carmakers Build Robots
Automotive OEMs become robot makers transferring electric drive sensing safety AI manufacturing and supplier architectures into emerging Physical AI ecosystems.
Archives: Book Chapters
The Robot’s Skin Is a Sensor Network
Whole-body tactile networks turn robot surfaces into distributed intelligence, linking contact sensing, edge processing, safety, control, diagnostics, and continuous learning.
Uptime Is Intelligence
Humanoid scale depends on architectures that detect degradation, preserve safe capability, accelerate repair, and convert fleet evidence into continuous improvement.
The Robot Needs an Immune System
Robots need distributed trust mechanisms that detect abnormalities, contain faults, preserve safe capability, recover securely, and learn across operational fleets.
Why Humanoid Robotics Needs a Mission Profile
A common humanoid mission profile makes energy, thermal, runtime, and semiconductor comparisons reproducible across robots, tasks, laboratories, and development teams.
The Memory Wall Has Legs
Memory bandwidth, locality and data movement will constrain whole-body robot intelligence before nominal accelerator throughput reaches its advertised computational limits.
The Robot Has a Passport
Hardware-rooted identity, attestation and lifecycle evidence will determine whether humanoid robots earn trust, authorization, serviceability and market access at scale.
Situational Safety
Humanoid safety requires context-aware, independently assured responses that preserve control, reduce risk, and adapt without surrendering authority to AI models.
Power Integrity Is Robot Intelligence
Humanoid performance depends on power integrity: stable distributed energy delivery that preserves motion, perception, computation, safety, and availability under transients.
The Physics of Touch
Tactile intelligence turns contact into controlled action by combining sensors, local processing, synchronized data, and semiconductor-grade reliability for dexterous manipulation.
