Why the augmented future is not a damnation story. For generations, every story about technology touching the human body ended in damnation. But the first real cyborgs didn't crawl out of a nightmare: they walked out of hospitals. The founding article of CyborgsLife, my new observatory of hu…
A robot did not change last week. The paperwork did. Same actuators, same code, and a machine that shipped without a second thought in June needs permission to exist in August. First the chips, then the frontier models, now the robots: the map is being redrawn faster than the technology matures.…
On July 9, 2026, 1X Technologies held a product launch not for a robot, but for a hand. A 25-degree-of-freedom, tendon-driven hand designed to match human dexterity - and it reveals the boldest bet in robotics. While Tesla, Figure, and Agility chase the factory floor, 1X is betting on the Americ…
On May 31, 2026, OpenAI quietly started hiring engineers to build its own robots. After shutting its robotics team back in 2021, the company behind ChatGPT is reaching into the physical world. Most people will read this as a hiring story. I read it as a signal: intelligence has spent three years…
