Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly
THE SO WHAT
Beaming model updates optically to robots shifts the constraint from bandwidth and downtime to line-of-sight and local optics. If this matures, fleet operators could treat AI policy and behavior like over-the-air firmware—updated continuously instead of in rare maintenance windows.
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