When Hyundai acquired the robotics giant Boston Dynamics in 2021, very few observers thought that using mechanical dogs to spot-check welds in car factories would be the endgame. Today, at CES 2026, Hyundai offered a detailed look at what it really wants to do with robots: make them more humanlike, and then put them to work building cars. The goal, Hyundai officials said, is simple: better safety, better quality, more durability and reliability, and at lower production costs.
His far-sighted blend of tech criticism and class analysis has found Doctorow time and again at the bleeding edge of commentary on our techno-capitalist society. In many ways, his screeds on topics like tech broligarchs and enshittification broke the mold to allow room for the kind of tech-critical reporting being done by media projects like Tech Policy Press and , or the podcasts" Tech Won't Save Us," and " Better Offline."
AI is supposed to revolutionize workforce productivity, but so far that hasn't been the case. One study from MIT found that a damning 95 percent of companies thatgambled on integrating the tech saw nomeaningful growth in revenue. Another study exploring one of its most hyped up applications, AI coding assistants, showed that programmers actually becameslower when they depended on the AI tools.