All robotics & autonomy coverage from The Sideline.
Texas's new AV registration database gives us the first clean look at who's actually deploying autonomous vehicles in the state — and the gap between Waymo's 577 vehicles and Tesla's 42 is harder to spin than any earnings call.
Waymo is partnering with battery repurposing company B2U to turn its retired robotaxi battery packs into grid-scale energy storage across California and Texas—a quiet but sensible move that says a lot about the realities of running an autonomous vehicle fleet at scale.
NVIDIA's new "Agent Skills" framework targets autonomous vehicles, robotics, and vision AI—but does it represent genuine capability progress or an elaborate repackaging of existing tools? A skeptic's breakdown of what's real and what's still brutally hard.
The AI robotics market is heading toward massive growth by 2030 — if you believe the forecasts. Let's dig into what's actually driving the numbers, what the press releases omit, and where the real traction is hiding.
