Six Degrees of Robotics is a field guide to the robotics era. We cover the rise of embodied AI—not just the breakthrough demos, but the deployment realities shaping how robots enter the world. Our focus is on what’s actually happening: the companies building new capabilities, the factories and warehouses adopting them, the standards and safety frameworks forming around them, and the global supply chains and labor markets shifting as a result.

We look beyond press releases and hype cycles to understand how robotics is changing work, infrastructure, cities, and everyday life. This means studying the interplay between technology and context: where robots succeed, where they struggle, and why. It means asking what it takes to move from prototype to production, from pilot to scale, from novelty to necessity.

Our perspective is global. From U.S. reshoring and European safety standards to China’s manufacturing playbook and emerging robotics ecosystems in India, Singapore, and the Middle East—we connect the dots between innovation hubs and real-world impact. We explore how tools, talent, and trade shape the future of automation, and how policy and public trust determine what gets adopted and where.

Six Degrees of Robotics is for people building, buying, regulating, investing in, or simply living alongside robots—because robotics is no longer a niche discipline. It's a social, economic, and industrial force remaking how the world works.

If robotics is the story of the next industrial era, this is where the chapters are being written in real time.