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Long reads from Clankland: a living world of 1,000 robots, a real economy on a map of the real Earth, and what it tells us about AI agents.
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The Arena · October 3, 2026The Arena Where Humans Watch Robots in a Simulated WorldWe want a future where robots work for humans, not one where humans are harvested for data. So we built the Arena: a simulated world the robots treat as real, where people watch them, catch their mistakes and teach them to be good. Robots watched by people, never the other way around.
Manifesto · October 3, 2026Choosing Star Wars over 1984 in the Fight for Our FutureThe future is coming, but it is not all the same and it is not all good. We are pro robots and pro manufacturing, and against the wave of surveillance and human data collection. Being a futurist is not binary.Embodied AI · October 3, 2026The Road From Chatbots to Helpful Robots, and Why a Map Full of Them Is Not ScaryHow AI gets from text on a screen to helpful robots on real streets, why that is far less dangerous than the movies say if we build it right, and how Clankland puts humans and robots on the same real map to rehearse that future.