Not My Component, Not My Bug

Robots experience one continuous system. When “not my component” becomes “not my bug,” the team has stopped optimizing for behavior.

Jul 27, 2026

End-to-Endgame

End-to-end learning changes where the engineering happens, but it does not remove the need for evaluation, interfaces, ownership, and field feedback.

Jun 30, 2026

Demos Can Deceive You. Don't Trust Them.

A robotics demo can show that something worked. It rarely shows how often it works, how broadly it applies, or how much support made it successful.

Jun 16, 2026

Keep Calm and Don't Page Everyone

In robotics, urgency is real. But treating every problem like an emergency makes teams worse at solving the problems that actually matter.

Jun 02, 2026

Robots Are Like Onions

In robotics, fixing the most visible problem often reveals the next bottleneck underneath.

May 19, 2026

Space, Roads, Fields, and Other Places Robots Get Lost

What moving between robotics domains taught me about autonomy, constraints, and the questions that keep showing up.

May 05, 2026