Story
Anduril’s software model is remaking the defense contractor
Lattice turns hardware programs into a shared autonomy and command layer.
Topic dossier · Reviewed
Robotics
Machines that perceive, move, and work in physical environments.
Editorial scope
Robotics
Machines that perceive, move, and work in physical environments.
Essential coverage
Story
Figure is making the humanoid robot a manufacturing argument
The near-term test is not resemblance to a person. It is reliable work inside an existing line.
Feature
The defense startup becomes a systems company
Anduril’s rise shows how software, hardware, manufacturing, and procurement are being recombined.
Feature
What a humanoid robot has to learn before the demo ends
The impressive movement is only a small part of reliable physical work.
Interview
Fei-Fei Li on spatial intelligence
A public-record conversation about the gap between language and the physical world.
Explainer
What is a world model?
The term covers systems that learn useful representations of how environments behave over time.
News brief
NVIDIA keeps physical AI at the center of GTC
Robotics and industrial systems now sit beside data-center infrastructure.
Podcast · Signal Path
Signal Path 05: The defense systems company
How Anduril combines autonomy, hardware, manufacturing, and mission software.
Profile
Fei-Fei Li and the unfinished map of spatial intelligence
From ImageNet to world models, Li’s work keeps returning AI to the richness of the visible world.
Profile
Palmer Luckey and the software-defined contractor
Anduril’s founder returned from consumer hardware with a theory of autonomy, manufacturing, and defense procurement.