Core Matter is a newsletter on the business of robotics and physical AI, covering the value chain from chips and actuators to foundation models, data and deployment economics. It mixes first-hand field reporting, such as a paid humanoid cleaning test, with founder interviews and data-economics analysis.
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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.
A researcher-founder writes long-form explainers on computing history and robotics, unpacking topics like RL locomotion of humanoid robots, the ENIAC and EDVAC programming paradigms, and low-power on-chip state estimation. Readers get technically grounded, well-illustrated explanations with quantitative comparisons and historical context.
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