The Signal.
The news from robotics, physical AI and industrial AI, with the context you need to judge it. What happened, what the number really measures, and where it is heading.
THE MACHINES ARE THE STORY.ROBOTICS · PHYSICAL AI · ENGINEERING
AI in
real
machines.
News, explainers and company stories from robotics, physical AI and engineering. Written for the people who build things.
Follow on LinkedIn ↗Media inquiries ↗The story. The mechanics.
Where it is all going.
01 / THE BEAT
Beyond the
chat window.
AI is leaving the chat window. It now has to grip a tote, hold a lane on I-45, pass a load case and boot on a microcontroller.
That is where the hype meets physics, and where the interesting stories are.
Torque & Tokens tells those stories. We cover the companies and people moving AI into hardware, explain how the machines actually work, and say plainly what has shipped and what is still a plan. Every post links its primary source.
02 / THREE WAYS IN
NEWS → UNDERSTANDING → WHAT COMES NEXTExplained.
The big ideas through the people behind them. Keynotes, interviews and earnings calls turned into explainers an engineer can check, plus engineering comics about the parts of the job nobody puts on a slide.
Build File.
Company and product features. How a robot, a sensor or an engineering tool goes from pilot to repeat customer, told with the real milestones.
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Pitch your story ↗03 / WORK WITH THE PUBLICATION
Have a story
worth showing?
Building something in robotics, physical AI or engineering software? Send us the launch, the paper or the field data.
Read the media kit ↗THE EDITOR
Lukas Timm
Mechanical engineer with ten years across automotive, lidar, vehicle simulation, vehicle dynamics and engineering processes.
Editor of Torque & Tokens. Founder of The Tech Storyteller.
04 / OPEN THE CONVERSATION
Pitch a story.
Share a launch.
Talk to the editor.
We read everything and reply to what fits our readers.
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