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Actuate
Coverage of Actuate in the Nexus archive.
- Silicon Valley threw a hot robot party, and the clankers were M.I.A.
Robotics has emerged as a major tech investment area, marked by surging funding ($15 billion globally in 2025) and high attendance at conferences like Actuate. While interest in "Physical AI" is ubiquitous, the industry's primary constraint remains hardware scarcity, with data vendors outnumbering hardware companies at the expo hall.