12 Predictions for Embodied AI and Robotics in 2026
Twelve falsifiable predictions for embodied AI in 2026, from VLA scaling laws to humanoid safety incidents. The models are getting good enough; the deployment wall is the real test.
My writing.
All of my long-form thoughts on AI, robotics, and their interface with society, collected in chronological order.
The artificial hivemind: When AI creativity collapses into consensus
Why do different AI models keep giving the same creative answers? A NeurIPS Best Paper study shows open-ended responses collapse into a few dominant modes across models and even across repeated samples. Let's explore what that homogenization means for culture, and how to push for more diversity in practice.
Europe's AI Dilemma: Regulate, Imitate, or Innovate?
Silicon Valley doesn't just shape the world, it rules it. The tech giants that call it home have amassed extraordinary influence over political and social structures, with decisions that ripple far beyond U.S. borders. Europe is caught in a bind: should it regulate, imitate, or innovate?
Who Judges the Machines? The Quiet Race to Measure Artificial Intelligence's Intelligence
The benchmarks driving AI development have a fatal flaw: they reward performance over competence, eloquence over accuracy. Understanding this gap is the first step to building, and choosing, systems that actually work.
We're Not Training AI Anymore. We're Teaching It.
AI systems are suddenly capable of tasks they consistently failed at months ago. The secret isn't just about bigger models or more computing power. Behind the latest breakthroughs is a quiet revolution: companies have stopped training AI and started teaching it.
On the importance of post-training in modern LLM development
Post-training is all the rage. Are we going from training to teaching? What does a curriculum look like for LLMs? Let's find out.
MCP Explained… Again - Because This Time It's Getting Real
MCP is fast becoming the "USB-C for AI," connecting models to the real world. This post breaks down what it is, why it matters, and where it's headed.
"The Sensor Illusion" or Why Your AI Agent Might Be Flying Blind
Why Your AI Agent Might Be Flying Blind - Would you trust a robot with no sensors? Then why are we building AI agents that way?
Stepping Away from Claryo
After nearly three years building Claryo from conversations on commutes into a truly awesome AI product, I've decided the time is right for me to step away and begin a new chapter.
The War of Words: How Machines Process Text
When OpenAI refused to publish GPT-2 for fear of its malicious use: an analysis of the challenges of automatic text processing, between linguistic regularities and scientific responsibility.
Intellectual Property in the Machine Learning Era
How do machine learning algorithms redefine intellectual property? Between patents, trade secrets, and attribution questions, an exploration of the legal and ethical issues of AI.
The Artist and Their Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Service of Art
The Portrait of Edmond Bellamy sold at Christie's for 480,000 CHF: an exploration of GANs, generative art, and fundamental questions about who is truly the artist when a machine creates.
Artificial Intelligence, a Walk Through the "Uncanny Valley"
From Boston Dynamics' dancing robot to fundamental questions about artificial intelligence: an exploration of the "uncanny valley" and the current limits of machine learning.
Pose Sketching for the Control of a Humanoid Robot - Part 2
Programming and comanding grasping robots by demonstration is notoriously difficult due to the number of degrees of freedom involved. In this work, we propose an intuitive, Augemented Reality method where the user is able to 'point and click' to a goal pose for the robot end-effector to go to.
Pose Sketching for the Control of a Humanoid Robot - Part 1
Programming and comanding grasping robots by demonstration is notoriously difficult due to the number of degrees of freedom involved. In this work, we propose an intuitive, Augemented Reality method where the user is able to 'point and click' to a goal pose for the robot end-effector to go to.
Recommender Systems to extract voting patterns in the Swiss parliament
The Swiss confederation provides a large amount of data spanning virtually every aspect of the political process in Switzerland. With a convenient API to query the proceedings of committees, councillors, parties, logs of voting sessions … From this massive resource we decided to study voting patterns in the Swiss government.
Starry Nights
What makes Starry Night look like a van Gogh painting ? Is it the colours ? Is the brush stroke ? Is it the subject ? Somehow when we see this painting we associate its style to its author. If the style of the painting can be thought of as an independent component from the subject it represents, would it be possible to apply the style of *Starry Night* to another painting of picture ?
"Scientists Discover That the Brain Can Process Clickbait in 11 Dimensions !"
An example of approximative scientific vulgarization. The article is really bad and misleading, the brain does not encode 11 dimensions. What the paper is about is the ability to find the depth and distribution of millions of subnetworks of neurons within the brain.