Open source in robotics
A primary subject for investigation: the tooling, incentives, and risks of building robotic systems in the open, and what it means for the field.
Robotics · AI · Safety
Writing about machines that move, for the people who decide.
An independent blog on robotics, AI, and safety. We look at where the standards conversation is failing modern, software-intensive systems: and where it needs to go next.
Why this exists
This publication is for executives, robotics leaders, and policy makers who care about how robotics and autonomy will reshape their industries.
The decisions that shape how robots and autonomous systems are deployed increasingly happen in boardrooms, not standards meetings. We write to put rigorous, independent thinking in front of the people making those calls: in plain language, without the ceremony.
What we're writing about
Geopolitics of autonomy
How robotics and AI reshape supply chains, defense, and industrial policy: independent perspectives rather than the saturated AI safety discourse.
Safety standards, reconsidered
Existing frameworks like ISO 13849 struggle to account for modern, software-intensive robotics. We examine where the gaps are, and what a credible successor looks like.
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Occasional, considered writing on robotics, AI, and safety. Also cross-published on Substack and LinkedIn: read wherever you like.