Iuliia Gorshkova

The Asia-Pacific region, aside from China’s much-publicized rise, is home to a vibrant and diverse ecosystem of robotics and artificial intelligence startups. Across Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia, and Southeast Asia, founders are building machines that sense, move, and learn—serving industries as varied as healthcare, agriculture, logistics, and education. This article delves into a [...]

For years, the primary artifact of debugging an artificial intelligence system was a static string of text. You had your input prompt, perhaps a few lines of context, and the resulting output. If the model hallucinated, refused a valid request, or simply produced a nonsensical chain of thought, the engineer’s first instinct was to copy [...]

Biomimetic robotics, a field rooted in the observation and emulation of living organisms, has witnessed a surge in innovation as researchers turn to the animal kingdom for inspiration. The intricate designs and behaviors evolved by animals over millions of years have provided blueprints for solving some of robotics’ most persistent challenges—mobility, agility, adaptability, and efficiency. [...]

As the final quarter of 2025 winds down, the artificial intelligence landscape feels less like a gold rush and more like a maturing industrial sector. The initial wave of unbridled experimentation has crested, replaced by a deliberate, often grinding, process of institutionalization. For those of us who have spent years building models and deploying systems, [...]

The intersection of human ingenuity and robotic precision is rapidly transforming emergency response scenarios worldwide. As wildfires, hurricanes, and urban disasters increase in complexity, the integration of robots into human emergency teams is no longer an experimental novelty but a necessity. The fusion of advanced robotics with skilled human responders presents opportunities and challenges that [...]

When we discuss the geopolitical landscape of artificial intelligence, the conversation inevitably circles back to silicon. The physical reality of computation—the movement of electrons through doped materials—remains the ultimate arbiter of what is possible in the digital realm. While algorithms and software architectures receive the lion's share of academic attention, the underlying hardware capabilities dictate [...]

Legacy systems are the digital equivalent of ancient aqueducts. They still carry water—often with remarkable reliability—but they were designed for a world of Roman centurions, not modern plumbing. In enterprise environments, these monolithic applications, mainframe processes, and decades-old codebases represent the bedrock of operations. Yet, they are notoriously brittle, poorly documented, and frequently built on [...]

Most of us in the field have a specific, visceral memory of a system breaking. It’s usually loud. A database connection times out, an API returns a 500 error, or a container crashes due to an OOM kill. These are the failures we build for. We have dashboards screaming red, PagerDuty alerts vibrating in our [...]

In the ever-evolving field of robotics, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the capabilities of machines, enabling them to perform complex tasks autonomously. Traditionally, much of the computational heavy lifting for AI-powered robots has been offloaded to the cloud. However, with the advent of edge AI and TinyML, a new paradigm is emerging—one [...]

When you're building a system intended to operate across the European Union, the United States, and emerging markets in Asia or Latin America, you aren't just engineering code—you are engineering compliance. The challenge isn't merely handling different data formats or API endpoints; it's navigating a labyrinth of conflicting legal philosophies. On one side, you have [...]

When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter first spun its rotors on the Martian surface in April 2021, it marked more than a technological milestone. This four-pound rotorcraft, designed as a technology demonstrator, became the first aircraft to achieve controlled, powered flight on another planet. The lessons learned from Ingenuity’s ongoing mission have rippled far beyond the red [...]

Five years ago, if you walked into a tech conference and asked about a "Prompt Engineer" or a "Chief AI Officer," you’d likely get blank stares or perhaps a polite chuckle. The landscape of technology employment shifts rapidly, but the acceleration driven by generative AI and machine learning over the last half-decade is unprecedented. We [...]

Open source robotics has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, catalyzed by advances in both hardware affordability and software sophistication. The convergence of collaborative development communities, mature libraries, and powerful simulation environments is reshaping how robots are designed, trained, and deployed. This article examines the current landscape of open source robotics tools, focusing on recent [...]

When we talk about search, our minds often jump to the familiar comfort of a well-indexed database or the lightning-fast results from a search engine. These systems rely on classical search and retrieval strategies—algorithms designed for static data, predefined schemas, and known relationships. But what happens when the environment is not static? What happens when [...]

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the world of design and architecture. No longer confined to futuristic speculation, generative algorithms and robotic systems have become integral to how we conceive, construct, and inhabit our built environment. Through the lens of computation, creativity, and materiality, a new era emerges—one where the boundaries between designer, machine, and matter [...]

There’s a particular kind of friction that happens when a machine learning model meets a business roadmap. It’s the moment when a data scientist, proud of a model achieving 99.2% accuracy on a validation set, hands it off to a product team, only to watch the project stall. The model is mathematically elegant, the code [...]

In the evolving landscape of renewable energy, robots have emerged as pivotal players, transforming both the operational and economic dimensions of solar and wind power. Their presence is no longer an experiment or a futuristic vision: it is an everyday reality on solar farms and at the base of wind turbines, where efficiency, safety, and [...]

Financial markets have always been a battleground of information asymmetry, but the introduction of artificial intelligence has shifted the terrain entirely. We are no longer dealing with simple linear regressions or rigid decision trees coded by hand. We are deploying complex, high-dimensional models that learn from decades of market data, news sentiment, and geopolitical noise. [...]

For years, the conversation around vector embeddings has been almost entirely dominated by text. We have grown comfortable with the idea of turning words and sentences into high-dimensional points, watching as semantic relationships emerge as geometric distances. The vector king - man + woman approximating queen is the classic party trick that introduced millions to [...]

The conversation around AI agents within enterprise environments often centers on capability, latency, and cost. We benchmark retrieval accuracy, we optimize inference times, and we argue over fine-tuning strategies. Yet, there is a deeper, more volatile variable at play that rarely makes it into the technical specs sheets: the propagation of trust. Not just the [...]

As our societies age and the prevalence of disability remains a constant, assistive robots have emerged as transformative tools, bridging gaps in independence, mobility, and engagement for millions. Far beyond mere machines, these robots embody the culmination of decades of research in robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-centered design—each development anchored in the pursuit of a [...]

When you're debugging a complex software system, the ability to roll back to a known good state is a fundamental safety net. It’s the "undo" button for the entire codebase, a time machine for infrastructure. Yet, as we increasingly integrate AI models into our production workflows—treating them not just as classifiers but as decision-making agents—we [...]

Robotics has swiftly transitioned from industrial assembly lines to a ubiquitous presence in healthcare, logistics, agriculture, and even private homes. This rapid proliferation brings urgent security concerns, as robots become increasingly networked, autonomous, and integrated into critical infrastructure. Unlike traditional IT systems, robots interact with the physical world; their compromise can result not just in [...]

When we talk about AI, the conversation often drifts toward the spectacular capabilities of large language models or the latest breakthroughs in reinforcement learning. We marvel at the engineering prowess required to train these systems, yet we frequently overlook the burgeoning discipline required to steward them safely. There is a quiet revolution happening not in [...]

Digital twins have emerged as a cornerstone technology in the ongoing transformation of manufacturing under the banner of Industry 4.0. These dynamic, virtual counterparts of physical assets, systems, or processes provide manufacturers with a deeper, data-driven understanding of operations. This enables not only predictive maintenance and quality assurance but also innovation in design, production, and [...]

Every quarter, I sit through a dozen product demos from AI startups pitching to large financial institutions. The pattern is predictable. A brilliant team shows a model with remarkable accuracy, elegant architecture, and a clear path to ROI. They answer technical questions with confidence. Six months later, they are out of the running, not because [...]

Latin America is entering a new era in urban mobility. The region, with its sprawling megacities, complex traffic patterns, and growing demand for efficient transport, is now actively exploring autonomous vehicles and air mobility solutions. Innovative startups, tech giants, and governmental agencies are all investing resources to adapt, regulate, and test these transformative technologies. This [...]