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Straight talk on AI deployment: dispatches from the practice, and reading from around the web that survived a fact-check. No press-release prose.
From the Practice
Kaipability dispatches on AIRL's subject matter
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The Missing Level.
Every industrial AI programme talks about readiness. None of them measure it. AIRL does for industrial AI what TRL did for technology.
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The AI did not fail. The coupling did.
'AI' carries two different machines on its back. One measures. One guesses. Ford bought the guess and called it measurement.
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The robot walks. Now what?
Quadruped delivery robots are no longer an invention problem. They are a deployment problem. That is a completely different kind of hard.
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Physical AI. We had a word for it.
When venture capital rebrands robotics, it tells you more about the capital than the robots.
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Mother Machines
The US is spending hundreds of billions to reshore manufacturing. Almost nobody is asking what makes the machines that go inside the new factories.
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The Hard Middle. Is Being Bridged Again.
Market intelligence paired with industrialisation depth, rarer than it should be. The hard middle is where additive businesses are won or lost.
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What the rest of the world is finding out
The deployment gap is no longer our private observation. Every link below was fetched and verified before listing.
Fortune
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
MIT's NANDA research finds the failure isn't model quality. It's organisational integration.
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Why 40% Of Agentic AI Projects May Be Canceled By 2027
On Gartner's cancellation forecast: 'A demo is a promise. Production is a contract.'
Read at sourceManufacturing Dive
Agentic AI is scaling in manufacturing, but infrastructure gaps remain
Autonomous workflows are arriving faster than the data infrastructure they depend on.
Read at sourceMarketScale
Enterprise AI moves from pilot to production in 2026, but gaps in governance and talent persist
Scaling is finally happening. Governance and operational readiness are not keeping up.
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