The data layer of physical AI, discussed in a classic garage in San Francisco
AgiBot, Astera Robotics and Veesion on data as the bottleneck for physical AI, reported from the Robotics Center in San Francisco during Tech Week.
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What we are shipping, what verification and grading are learning from real datasets, and what that means for the people buying and selling them.
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“Deployment is the moat”: Dyna Robotics’ chief scientist on what it takes to get robots out of the lab
Jason Ma, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Dyna Robotics, on deployment, the move from VLA to World Action Models, and what it takes to get robots out of the lab. Choose Good Quests, Savant VC, San Francisco.
Learning from human video: notes from the HackerSquad VLA panel
Notes from the HackerSquad and Bright Data panel on learning from human video and scaling VLA training at SF Tech Week, with Chengjiang Long of ByteDance on the four gaps between web video and a training example.
Data is digital, trust is still human: lessons from the first month of a robot data marketplace
Nine in ten organisations registering are sellers, every data deal still runs by hand, and trust is being built one transaction at a time. What the first month of Kinetic Blocks taught us.
We are hiring a Chief Marketing Officer in the Bay Area
Kinetic Blocks is hiring a CMO in the Bay Area to own customers, onboarding, marketing and the newsletter. Meet us in San Francisco during Tech Week.
One month after launch: what we have learned, and why we want to meet you at SF Tech Week
Supply is running ahead of demand, data deals are still a manual business, and a new category called interests lets buyers say what they are looking for before they can write a formal request. We will be in San Francisco for Tech Week from 5 to 11 October.
Europe's regulatory strength, and how to start with robots
Our CEO explains how Europe can use its strengths in safety standards and robot benchmarks to deploy robots safely and quickly, why the data those deployments produce is the compounding asset, and how a company should get started.
Humanoid robots: from demonstration to deployment
An interview with Lars-Fredrik Forberg at Future Pulse on what it will take for humanoid robots to move from trials into industry, and the role of data, safety and European standards.
Open robotics datasets, in one place, no account needed
A public catalogue of 27 open robotics datasets, close to 19,000 hours of footage, with every licence stated in plain words. Live now, no login required.
Ten questions to the humanoid industry
Ten open questions on the humanoid robotics industry, with the evidence behind each one. Originally presented at Future Pulse 2026, Eindhoven, on behalf of humanoid.guide.
The state of the art is inside the joint
Day two at the Humanoid Robots Summit in Stuttgart. Three companies with no commercial relationship to each other independently named data ownership as the question that decides whether a deployment happens.
The industrial keynotes were the substance
Day one at the Humanoid Robots Summit in Stuttgart. Five speakers arrived at the same bottleneck from five different starting points, and it was not hardware.
What twenty inbound leads taught us about who actually buys and sells robot data
One week into the beta, roughly twenty inbound leads reshaped how we understand this market, including a supply segment we had not modelled.
Kinetic Blocks opens in beta
The trusted marketplace for robotics training data is live. Every dataset is verified against its files and independently graded before it can be listed.