China Field Notes: The Iteration-Speed Advantage
China's robotics advantage is structural: built on geographic density, manufacturing literacy, and an ecosystem that reduces iteration friction across hardware, software, and capital.
January 2025
Machine Epoch Series
Across epochs, civilizational turns have followed from the confluence of mind, mechanism, and imagination. We are entering another such inflection: the age of embodied artificial intelligence, in which digital cognition exits screens to assume material presence. Machine Epoch examines this frontier, its insights, architectures, operational reality, and unanswered questions asking what it means to engineer intelligence that interacts with physics and the feedback they will impose on us.
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