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Jan Bosch

Jan Bosch

Accelerating the adoption of digital — software, data and AI — technologies in industry and society.
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Machines that think, Part 9: sensing the world

In 2016, a mechanical lidar cost something like 80,000-100,000 dollars; a 64-beam Velodyne was around 80,000 dollars. Today, solid-state units are being targeted below 200 dollars, with a stated long-term goal of 100 dollars and several competitors aiming under 500 dollars. That’s a reduction…
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Of everything in this series, the laboratory is where I would most like the optimistic story to be true. And it partly…
October 2026 · 6 min read
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There’s a pleasing symmetry in the way the electricity demand of artificial intelligence usually gets discussed. While AI is an enormous…
October 2026 · 7 min read
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For most of the last decade, “autonomous vehicles are two years away” was a joke you could tell at any industry dinner…
September 2026 · 7 min read
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If you had to design the ideal environment for industrial AI from scratch, you’d design a factory. It’s enclosed and…
September 2026 · 6 min read
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The argument for the humanoid is the best argument in robotics, and I want to make it explicit and clear before I…
September 2026 · 7 min read
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Daily Reflection #320: You become what you attend to

We have become thoughtful about what we put into our bodies. We read labels, count protein, think about what a diet does to us over years. Almost nobody…
21 October 2026
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Daily Reflection #319: Imagine it already failed

At the start of a project, optimism is not just common; it is socially enforced. The kickoff is a celebration. The plan is exciting. Anyone who raises a…
20 October 2026
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Daily Reflection #318: Most apologies are defences

Listen carefully to the apologies around you, including your own, and you will notice that a surprising number of them are not apologies at all. "I'…
19 October 2026
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Daily Reflection #317: Counting summers

There is a simple exercise that changed how I think about time, and it takes about two minutes. Take something you care about and count how many more…
16 October 2026
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Daily Reflection #316: Taste is the new scarce skill

For most of history, the hard part of making something was the making. Writing the report, drafting the design, building the system: production was the bottleneck, and people…
15 October 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-315-just-ask

Daily Reflection #315: Just ask

There is a body of research showing that people systematically underestimate how likely others are to say yes when asked for help. The likelihood is about a factor…
14 October 2026
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