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            "id": "106",
            "slug": "robots_recycling",
            "title": "Trash Talk: How AI Robots Are Rebuilding the Recycling Line",
            "excerpt": "AI-guided robots are quietly taking over the recycling line, spotting and grabbing dozens of items a minute. Inside the material recovery facilities where machine vision is turning waste back into value.",
            "category": "Sustainability",
            "tags": [
                "recycling",
                "waste sorting",
                "AI vision",
                "MRF",
                "sustainability"
            ],
            "date": "2026-06-23",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_recycling",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_recycling.jpg",
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                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
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        {
            "id": "105",
            "slug": "robots_orbit",
            "title": "Mechanics in Orbit: The Year Robots Start Repairing Satellites",
            "excerpt": "After years of delay, robotic servicers are finally heading to geostationary orbit in 2026 — to refuel, repair and upgrade satellites worth hundreds of millions, instead of junking them.",
            "category": "Space",
            "tags": [
                "space robotics",
                "satellites",
                "on-orbit servicing",
                "DARPA",
                "GEO"
            ],
            "date": "2026-06-22",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_orbit",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_orbit.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
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        {
            "id": "104",
            "slug": "robots_construction",
            "title": "Robots Report for Duty on the Building Site",
            "excerpt": "Autonomous excavators, rebar-tying crawlers and AI loaders are moving from pilot projects to real construction sites in 2026 — pushed less by hype than by a deepening labour shortage.",
            "category": "Construction",
            "tags": [
                "construction robotics",
                "autonomous excavators",
                "Bedrock Robotics",
                "Bobcat",
                "labor shortage"
            ],
            "date": "2026-06-20",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_construction",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_construction.jpg",
            "languages": [
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                "fr",
                "nl"
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        {
            "id": "103",
            "slug": "humanoid_deployments_2026",
            "title": "The 2026 Humanoid Scoreboard: Who Is Actually Shipping Robots to Work?",
            "excerpt": "Beyond the demo videos, a handful of humanoids have crossed into real, paid deployments this year. Here is who is genuinely on the floor — and what the numbers say.",
            "category": "Market",
            "tags": [
                "humanoid",
                "logistics",
                "Figure",
                "Agility",
                "Apptronik"
            ],
            "date": "2026-06-18",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=humanoid_deployments_2026",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/humanoid_deployments_2026.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
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        {
            "id": "102",
            "slug": "voice_agents",
            "title": "Voice Agents Grow Up: The New Front Door of Customer Service",
            "excerpt": "The dreaded phone menu is being replaced by AI that listens, understands, and actually resolves. Done right, it helps; done wrong, it traps.",
            "category": "Trends",
            "tags": [
                "AI",
                "customer service",
                "voice"
            ],
            "date": "2026-06-11",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=voice_agents",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/voice_agents.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
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            "id": "101",
            "slug": "robot_learning_data",
            "title": "The Data Bottleneck: Why Robots Still Struggle to Learn From the Real World",
            "excerpt": "Language models had the internet to learn from. Robots have no such corpus. Solving the data problem may matter more than any new motor or model.",
            "category": "Insight",
            "tags": [
                "robot learning",
                "data",
                "simulation"
            ],
            "date": "2026-06-01",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robot_learning_data",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robot_learning_data.jpg",
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                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
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        {
            "id": "100",
            "slug": "drones_beyond_delivery",
            "title": "Drones Beyond Delivery: Inspection, Agriculture, and Emergency Response",
            "excerpt": "Package delivery grabs headlines, but drones are already delivering value where they shine: dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs done from the air.",
            "category": "Analysis",
            "tags": [
                "drones",
                "inspection",
                "emergency"
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            "date": "2026-05-21",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=drones_beyond_delivery",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/drones_beyond_delivery.jpg",
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                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
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            "id": "99",
            "slug": "edge_ai",
            "title": "AI at the Edge: When Inference Leaves the Cloud",
            "excerpt": "Running models on the device — in the camera, the car, the sensor — cuts latency, protects privacy, and keeps working when the network does not.",
            "category": "Insight",
            "tags": [
                "edge",
                "inference",
                "privacy"
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            "date": "2026-05-11",
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            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/edge_ai.jpg",
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                "fr",
                "nl"
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            "id": "98",
            "slug": "cobots_manufacturing",
            "title": "Cobots on the Line: Collaborative Robots and the Future of Manufacturing",
            "excerpt": "Unlike caged industrial arms, collaborative robots work safely beside people. They are bringing automation to the small and mid-sized factory.",
            "category": "Market",
            "tags": [
                "cobots",
                "manufacturing",
                "industry"
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            "date": "2026-04-30",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=cobots_manufacturing",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/cobots_manufacturing.jpg",
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                "fr",
                "nl"
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            "id": "97",
            "slug": "ai_memory_rag",
            "title": "RAG, Memory, and Context: How AI Assistants Finally Started to Remember",
            "excerpt": "A model's weights are frozen at training time. Retrieval and memory are how assistants stay current, grounded, and personal without retraining.",
            "category": "Insight",
            "tags": [
                "LLM",
                "RAG",
                "memory"
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            "date": "2026-04-21",
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            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/ai_memory_rag.jpg",
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                "fr",
                "nl"
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            "id": "96",
            "slug": "farm_robotics",
            "title": "Farm Robotics: How Automation Is Quietly Reshaping Agriculture",
            "excerpt": "From laser weeding to autonomous tractors, robots are tackling agriculture's labor crunch — and changing what sustainable farming can mean.",
            "category": "Analysis",
            "tags": [
                "agriculture",
                "automation",
                "sustainability"
            ],
            "date": "2026-04-10",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=farm_robotics",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/farm_robotics.jpg",
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                "fr",
                "nl"
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        {
            "id": "95",
            "slug": "autonomous_freight",
            "title": "Self-Driving Freight: Why Autonomous Trucks Scale Before Robotaxis",
            "excerpt": "The highway, not the city, may be where autonomy pays off first. Long, repetitive, structured routes are a better match for today's self-driving stack.",
            "category": "Mobility",
            "tags": [
                "mobility",
                "autonomous",
                "trucking"
            ],
            "date": "2026-04-01",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=autonomous_freight",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/autonomous_freight.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
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        {
            "id": "94",
            "slug": "eu_ai_act",
            "title": "The EU AI Act Becomes Real: What a Risk-Based Rulebook Means in Practice",
            "excerpt": "Europe's AI rulebook is phasing in. Its core idea is simple — regulate by risk, not by hype — but the operational consequences for builders are real.",
            "category": "Ethics",
            "tags": [
                "regulation",
                "ethics",
                "Europe"
            ],
            "date": "2026-03-23",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=eu_ai_act",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/eu_ai_act.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "93",
            "slug": "surgical_robots",
            "title": "Surgical Robots in 2026: Precision, Autonomy, and the Human in the Loop",
            "excerpt": "Robotic surgery has moved from novelty to routine in many specialties. The frontier now is how much autonomy to grant — and where the surgeon's hand must stay.",
            "category": "Health",
            "tags": [
                "health",
                "surgery",
                "autonomy"
            ],
            "date": "2026-03-12",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=surgical_robots",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/surgical_robots.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "92",
            "slug": "small_language_models",
            "title": "Small Language Models: The Quiet Revolution Running On Your Device",
            "excerpt": "Not every task needs a giant model. Compact models running locally are cheaper, faster, more private — and increasingly good enough.",
            "category": "Insight",
            "tags": [
                "LLM",
                "on-device",
                "efficiency"
            ],
            "date": "2026-03-03",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=small_language_models",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/small_language_models.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "91",
            "slug": "ai_energy",
            "title": "The Energy Bill of AI: Why Data Centers Became an Industrial Frontier",
            "excerpt": "Every prompt has a power cost. As AI scales, electricity — not chips — is becoming the binding constraint, and it is reshaping where and how we build.",
            "category": "Energy",
            "tags": [
                "energy",
                "data centers",
                "efficiency"
            ],
            "date": "2026-02-23",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=ai_energy",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/ai_energy.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "90",
            "slug": "humanoid_warehouse",
            "title": "Humanoid Robots Hit the Warehouse: Promise vs. Reality in 2026",
            "excerpt": "After years of stage demos, humanoids are running pilot shifts in real logistics sites. The footage is impressive — but the economics are still the hard part.",
            "category": "Logistics",
            "tags": [
                "humanoid",
                "logistics",
                "economics"
            ],
            "date": "2026-02-13",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=humanoid_warehouse",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/humanoid_warehouse.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "89",
            "slug": "agentic_enterprise",
            "title": "Agentic AI in the Enterprise: From Chatbots to Autonomous Workflows",
            "excerpt": "The conversation has shifted from \"AI that answers\" to \"AI that acts\". Agentic systems now chain tools, call APIs and complete multi-step tasks with minimal supervision.",
            "category": "Trends",
            "tags": [
                "AI agents",
                "enterprise",
                "automation"
            ],
            "date": "2026-02-04",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=agentic_enterprise",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/agentic_enterprise.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "88",
            "slug": "robots_french",
            "title": "Niryo: the French robot that learns before it produces",
            "excerpt": "In the global robotics landscape, Niryo occupies a singular position. Neither a spectacular humanoid nor a massive production machine, it is a discreet, educational robot.",
            "category": "French touch",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2026-01-27",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_french",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_french.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "86",
            "slug": "robots_2026",
            "title": "Robots in 2026: What Should We Really Expect? A Reality Check.",
            "excerpt": "For two years, robots have been everywhere. Viral videos, spectacular announcements, humanoids walking and talking. Yet, at the dawn of 2026, a more sober reality prevails: robots have never been so visible... and so limited.",
            "category": "Analysis",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2026-01-11",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_2026",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_2026.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "85",
            "slug": "robots_r2d2",
            "title": "From R2-D2 to the NVIDIA Robot Buddy",
            "excerpt": "From fiction to reality: how our world is changing.",
            "category": "insight",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2026-01-10",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_r2d2",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_r2d2.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "84",
            "slug": "robots_bubble01",
            "title": "The Chinese Humanoid Robot Bubble Industrial Ambition vs. Economic Reality",
            "excerpt": "In early 2026, the global robotics industry faces an uncomfortable question: Are humanoid robots becoming China's next massive industrial bubble?",
            "category": "economic-insight",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2026-01-09",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_bubble01",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_bubble01.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "83",
            "slug": "robots_challenge",
            "title": "Robotics 2026: The Frontiers of Autonomy",
            "excerpt": "As we enter 2026, the dream of universal robotic assistants faces a reality check. While humanoids are entering factories, the technical gaps between lab prototypes and daily utility remain stark.",
            "category": "Trends",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2026-01-07",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_challenge",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_challenge.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "82",
            "slug": "robots_bulle",
            "title": "The Humanoid Bubble: Is China's Robot Gold Rush Ending?",
            "excerpt": "China is now home to over 150 companies active in the humanoid robotics sector, a market overheating with massive investments.",
            "category": "Market",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2025-12-27",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_bulle",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_bulle.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "81",
            "slug": "robots_christmass",
            "title": "The Robotic Christmas More Sparkle, Less Sweat!",
            "excerpt": "Forget the elves and their tiny hammers! The future of Christmas is silicon, sensors, and laser-guided joy.",
            "category": "Holiday Tech",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2025-12-24",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_christmass",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_christmass.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "79",
            "slug": "robots_mythology",
            "title": "The Myth of the Neutral Robot A Coded Silent Politics",
            "excerpt": "We are often told that 'technology is neutral.' It is a comfortable lie that dispenses us from questioning power structures.",
            "category": "Ethics",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2025-12-23",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_mythology",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_mythology.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "78",
            "slug": "robots_logistics",
            "title": "Autonomous Logistics Robotics Efficiency Over Fascination",
            "excerpt": "Autonomous logistics is perhaps the least spectacular yet most accomplished segment of modern robotics.",
            "category": "Logistics",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2025-12-22",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_logistics",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_logistics.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "77",
            "slug": "robots_batteries",
            "title": "Batteries & Robotics: The Glass Ceiling of Artificial Intelligence",
            "excerpt": "While observers marvel at the fluid movements of humanoid robots like Figure 01 or Tesla Optimus, a silent crisis is brewing in hardware: an unprecedented decoupling between exponential AI growth and linear battery progress.",
            "category": "Energy",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2025-12-21",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_batteries",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_batteries.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "75",
            "slug": "robots_company",
            "title": "Companion Robots & EU Law: AI Act vs GDPR",
            "excerpt": "Companion robots for the elderly or disabled are reshaping autonomy and care.",
            "category": "Health",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2025-12-19",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_company",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_company.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "74",
            "slug": "robots_mobility",
            "title": "NVIDIA DRIVE: Redefining Mobility",
            "excerpt": "In a world where the automobile is evolving from a mechanical chassis into a mobile intelligence platform, NVIDIA DRIVE stands as the technological backbone of future mobility. Powered by the Blackwell GPU architecture, it aims to transform connected vehicles into fully autonomous entities.",
            "category": "Mobility",
            "tags": [],
            "date": "2025-12-18",
            "url": "https://botchronicles.com/article.php?slug=robots_mobility",
            "image": "https://botchronicles.com/assets/robots_mobility.jpg",
            "languages": [
                "en",
                "fr",
                "nl"
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