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HardwareCA / Silicon Valley·Ranked Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots
Sponsored essay explores foundation-stack approach to building general-purpose robotic systems.

This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has no such recipe. Robotics systems have long been assembled from separate perception, planning, and control parts that rarely add up to intelligence a robot can carry from one task to another, or one machine to another. The central problem in embodied AI is to find the equivalent recipe, and the fiel
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