One robot triggered it all

On July 13, 2025, I pre-ordered my first robot.

I believe robots will have a major impact on our society before 2030, and I wanted to better understand that impact. That led me to start exploring a few months ago.

For a long time, robotics felt complex, reserved to top-notch mechanical engineers, completely out of my reach.

After a few months exploring the field, I see it differently. Today, robotics is increasingly accessible to anyone willing to invest some time and curiosity. The biggest obstacle is no longer the hardware price, but finding clear documentation that helps people learn, build, and experiment.

Ten months in, I now have four robots in my playground. What do I plan to do with them? I am not entirely sure yet. I have many ideas, a lot to learn, and even more to share. The field is becoming more accessible to the broader public, thanks in part to open tools, communities, and educational initiatives, but I believe there is still a lot to do.

I think we should all have some way of understanding what's coming. That's one of the reasons I started this blog. I want to help fill part of that gap by sharing what I learn and making robotics more approachable. I'll try to write so that anyone can follow along, no engineering background needed.

In this blog, I will write about what I am learning in robotics, introduce the robots I experiment with, share projects and failures, and reflect on the questions that arise along the way.

Robots have become my evening and weekend hobby. During the week, I am pursuing a PhD focused on the virtual and physical automation of tasks, with a particular focus on their economic impact. Robotics, or embodied AI, is part of that work, though not its central element. From time to time, I may also write about adjacent topics such as LLM capabilities, experiments, and automation more broadly.

The stage is set. Welcome to this blog. I am happy to have you on board for the journey.