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The robots of GTC2026

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The robots of GTC2026.

Why this note matters

The photos are the point here: a quick record of the moment embodied AI felt close enough to become ordinary infrastructure rather than distant science fiction.

On this site, that robot thread connects to the home-office question, local agents, and hardware experiments. If software agents are becoming workers, robots are one possible body those systems eventually borrow.

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