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NOVEMBER 2026 / ISSUE 01
THE ARCHITECTS
The Race to Build
Real Robots.
Five leaders. Competing visions. One extraordinary race to bring intelligence into the physical world.
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ISSUE 01 / THE ARCHITECTS
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VISION / Business of vision
Cognex’s $500 Million Bet on Robot Sight
The proposed RealSense acquisition puts depth perception at the center of an industrial vision company’s next act.
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VISION / Industrial perception
The Forklift Needs a Better View
Orbbec’s Gemini 435Le shows why the most consequential camera specification can be the shape of a pallet’s edge.
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VISION / Cameras and imaging
The Camera Chasing the Shrink-Wrap Problem
Photoneo’s blue-laser MotionCam targets the glossy, moving surfaces that can turn a simple robotic pick into a perception failure.
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VISION / AI and perception
When the Depth Camera Needs an AI Model
Orbbec and Robbyant are coupling measured depth with learned reconstruction, raising a crucial question about what a robot really sees.
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VISION / From the archive: 2023 launch
The Kinect Legacy Inside an Industrial Camera
Revisiting Orbbec’s Femto Mega reveals how depth technology outlives a developer kit and finds a different industrial role.
Read the storyIndustry and Warehouses.
Where the robotics race meets the working day.
ROBOTS SEE BEFORE THEY ACT
Cameras, Imaging and Vision.
What a machine can see decides what it can do.
VISION / Industrial perception
The Forklift Needs a Better View
Orbbec’s Gemini 435Le shows why the most consequential camera specification can be the shape of a pallet’s edge.
Read the storyVISION / Cameras and imaging
The Camera Chasing the Shrink-Wrap Problem
Photoneo’s blue-laser MotionCam targets the glossy, moving surfaces that can turn a simple robotic pick into a perception failure.
Read the storyVISION / AI and perception
When the Depth Camera Needs an AI Model
Orbbec and Robbyant are coupling measured depth with learned reconstruction, raising a crucial question about what a robot really sees.
Read the storyAI and Brains.
The intelligence behind the next move.
Business and Money.
The numbers behind the machines.
ISSUE 01 / THE ARCHITECTS
Inside the issue.
Five leaders shaping what comes next.
01Elon MuskTeslaThe promise of a general-purpose worker. The test of repeatable work.
FEATURE IN PREPARATION
The promise of a general-purpose worker. The test of repeatable work. The finished Architects feature will appear here after editorial review.
02Jensen HuangNVIDIAThe compute, simulation and models behind the next generation of robots.
FEATURE IN PREPARATION
The compute, simulation and models behind the next generation of robots. The finished Architects feature will appear here after editorial review.
03Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMindFrom reasoning about the world to acting inside it.
FEATURE IN PREPARATION
From reasoning about the world to acting inside it. The finished Architects feature will appear here after editorial review.
04Sam AltmanOpenAIAn investment and partnership strategy for the physical world.
FEATURE IN PREPARATION
An investment and partnership strategy for the physical world. The finished Architects feature will appear here after editorial review.
05Mark ZuckerbergMetaThe research and open tools that could shape embodied intelligence.
FEATURE IN PREPARATION
The research and open tools that could shape embodied intelligence. The finished Architects feature will appear here after editorial review.