Originally published on lavkesh.com I've been watching robotics closely and I'm struck by the real progress being made, not the sci-fi stuff but practical machines that can actually get work done The combination of hardware and AI is what's driving this change, with better sensors, faster processors, and machine learning that can interpret sensor data, robots can now understand their environment and adapt Consider the role of computer vision in this stack - models like YOLOv8 run on edge devices