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Robots

Oct 20, 2025

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8 min read

Sidewalk Robots Just Raised $50M While You Were Watching Flying Drones

Starship hits 9M deliveries with proven profitability • Sweden's cabless truck crosses international border autonomously • Figure builds factory to manufacture 12,000 humanoids per year

Rob Gourley

DoorDash

Oct 16, 2025

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4 min read

DoorDash Taps Waymo for Phoenix Deliveries

Waymo fills downtime between passenger rides with grocery runs. DoorDash adds autonomous cars to its robot and drone fleet.

Rob Gourley

Robots

Oct 13, 2025

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3 min read

Disaster Response Robots Hit $5.8B by 2033

While everyone chases household humanoids, the boring market with government budgets is growing at 12.5% CAGR

Rob Gourley

Robots

Oct 10, 2025

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3 min read

Meta vs Tesla: The Talent War for Humanoid Robots

Tesla's Optimus AI lead just left for Meta. The fight for robotics expertise is getting expensive.

Rob Gourley

Introduction to ROS: The Beginner's Guide to Robot Operating System

Oct 9, 2025

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39 min read

Introduction to ROS: The Beginner's Guide to Robot Operating System

A practical guide for designers, PMs, founders, and autonomy engineers who want to understand what they're actually building with

Rob Gourley

Robots

Why DoorDash Built Its Own Delivery Robot

Oct 7, 2025

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6 min read

Why DoorDash Built Its Own Delivery Robot

Dot navigates bike lanes at 20 mph because existing robots couldn't do what DoorDash needed

Rob Gourley

Robots

Oct 7, 2025

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3 min read

Korea Challenges US-China in Robotics

Korea unveils KAPEX humanoid, challenging US-China duopoly in a market racing toward $38 billion by 2035

Rob Gourley

Agentic AI

Oct 5, 2025

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5 min read

AI Agents Have a Trust Problem

Everyone's building AI agents. Almost nobody trusts them to work alone.

Rob Gourley

Humanoid Robot

Oct 4, 2025

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8 min read

40+ Humanoid Robot Companies Raising Billions

A quick look at the entire humanoid ecosystem. Here's who matters and who's raising billions.

Rob Gourley

Archive

Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

Sidewalk Robots Just Raised $50M While You Were Watching Flying Drones

DoorDash Taps Waymo for Phoenix Deliveries

Disaster Response Robots Hit $5.8B by 2033

Meta vs Tesla: The Talent War for Humanoid Robots

Introduction to ROS: The Beginner's Guide to Robot Operating System

Why DoorDash Built Its Own Delivery Robot

Korea Challenges US-China in Robotics

AI Agents Have a Trust Problem

40+ Humanoid Robot Companies Raising Billions

The Autonomy Report