Robotics
Humanoids, industrial automation, and the physical layer of AI.
Edited by Henrik Solberg
Robotics
Automation proposals focus almost entirely on hardware costs and headline labor savings. The ongoing expense of keeping mechanical arms running tells a quieter, more demanding story.
Henrik Solberg · 17 September 2026 · 7 min
Robotics
Automated inspection systems perform flawlessly under trade show lights. In working plants, oil mist, changing daylight, and mechanical vibration quickly erode their promised accuracy.
Henrik Solberg · 16 September 2026 · 6 min
Robotics
Packaging and test are where a chip becomes a product. Europe has funded fabs and underfunded the step that comes after, and robotics feels it first.
Henrik Solberg · 15 September 2026 · 8 min
Robotics
Automating refrigerated warehouses is technically punishing and expensive. It is also becoming one of the few resilient segments in industrial automation.
Henrik Solberg · 15 September 2026 · 7 min
Robotics
Silicon carbide and gallium nitride devices are moving from electric vehicles into drives, robots and industrial power supplies. Europe is unusually well placed here, and the constraint is qualification time.
Henrik Solberg · 14 September 2026 · 7 min
Robotics
Edge inference chips made camera-guided robots affordable. A small supplier set now sits inside most European robotics products, and designing around it is harder than buyers assume.
Henrik Solberg · 13 September 2026 · 7 min
Robotics
A decade of goods-to-person automation has changed the composition of warehouse work more than the headcount. The jobs that remain are denser, more repetitive and harder to staff.
Henrik Solberg · 12 September 2026 · 7 min
Robotics
Trondheim, Oslo, Lund and Espoo hold real semiconductor design capability in low power radio, sensing and connectivity. It is a smaller story than a fab announcement and a more durable one.
Henrik Solberg · 12 September 2026 · 7 min
Robotics
Early industrial deployments show competence on narrow tasks, poor tolerance for variation, and uptime figures that would be unacceptable in any fixed automation cell.
Henrik Solberg · 11 September 2026 · 8 min
Robotics
Storage density was the first argument. The operators buying now are buying against a labour market that no longer supplies night shift pickers.
Henrik Solberg · 8 September 2026 · 7 min
Robotics · medical devices
Key patents guarding surgical robotics have expired, opening the market to new competitors. Established workflows and clinical inertia mean cheaper options will arrive slowly.
Henrik Solberg · 6 September 2026 · 6 min
Robotics
Danish collaborative arms, German industrial systems and Swedish automation all depend on a supply chain whose critical nodes sit outside Europe. Recent policy has changed the margins, not the structure.
Henrik Solberg · 29 August 2026 · 8 min
Robotics
Pilot deployments in German and Nordic manufacturing sites suggest general purpose humanoids remain slower and less reliable than purpose-built automation, and more flexible than anything else available.
Henrik Solberg · 14 August 2026 · 7 min
Robotics
A conversation on what it will take for humanoid platforms to move from choreographed demonstrations to paid industrial work.
Henrik Solberg · 15 June 2026 · 12 min