Robotics
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Chip Factories Everywhere. Nobody Left to Run Them.
America is building more chip factories than at any point in its history — and it has 33,000 fewer chip manufacturing workers than it did in 2023. That's not a forecast, it's the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 368,400 people this March, against a peak near 401,000.
4 Robots, 1 Week, and the Story Everyone Missed
This week four companies — Samsung, Tesla, Unitree, and Foxconn — put humanoid robots on the factory floor at once, and the internet decided it's coming for your job. But the real story is the number nobody headlined.
Robots Now Learn Your Factory by Watching — Here's the Trick (Show It Once)
For fifty years, teaching a factory robot one task meant hand-driving its arm on a $300,000 rig — 50–200 demos an hour, millions of them per skill, months per task. The unlock is a "world model": feed it a video of the job and it predicts what happens next — gravity, friction, how a part…