Robots Don’t Need Code Anymore — And Your Supply Chain Is About to Get Weird

The multi-billion dollar programming industry just became obsolete for physical automation. Nobody’s talking about it.

Here’s something that’ll keep supply chain executives up at night: in a lab in Beijing last month, a robot arm figured out how to fold laundry without a single line of task-specific code.

Not impressed?

Let me reframe that. For sixty years, every robot in every factory has been running on rigid, pre-programmed instructions. Move arm to coordinate X. Grip …