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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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SF Tech Week 2026: a week in the physical AI rooms

A week in the physical AI rooms at SF Tech Week 2026: data as the bottleneck, learning from human video, deployment as the moat, and the Nordic programme that opened the doors.

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.

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.

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.