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*per capita. A case for deploying intelligent manipulators today.

Robotics Needs Fewer Roboticists* *per capita. A case for deploying intelligent manipulators today. Jacob Zietek Mar 25, 2026 27 2 3 Share America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Robotics is keeping out the people it needs most. Over the last few years, the technology has advanced faster than most people expected, and yet real-world deployments remain stubbornly rare. That gap is not just a research problem. It is a people problem. The field has spent decades optimizing for a narrow profile of contributors, and now that deployment is finally within reach, it doesn’t have the builders requi

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