A personal blog by a retired software engineer covering conference field notes on robotics alongside life updates. Readers get first-hand observations from IROS 2026, including humanoid robots, competitions and vendor exhibits.
Website: https://www.jamesywilson.me/
Robonaissance publishes essays on the AI and robotics frontier, including a series called Reading the Frontier that unpacks recent research and lab announcements, plus updates on its own open-source projects. Readers get careful, plain-language explanations of preprints and company posts, along with the newsletter's own open-source tools.
Weekly-style analysis of robotics and autonomous vehicles, covering policy, benchmarking and deployment. Readers get reported, data-driven explanations of how robot capabilities are measured and how the industry is evolving.
A hands-on technical blog series about porting OpenWrt to the AT&T BGW320-500 fibre gateway, covering Ethernet offload, tri-band Wi-Fi bring-up and the 10G XGS-PON SFP+ cage. Readers get detailed, step-by-step reverse engineering notes on Broadcom drivers, module load order and PON protocols.
Analytical essays on robotics, frontier AI and the economics of automation, including industry data reports and labor market analysis. Readers get reasoned arguments and original data points on how AI progress could affect robotics and jobs.
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