Quantum, Robots and AI — The Real State of Play | Shimmy Says
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Quantum computing and humanoid robots have been promised for decades. Both look closer than ever, and neither has fully arrived. In this Shimmy Says, Alan Shimel walks through two Techstrong Special Reports and separates what has actually shipped from what is still under construction — real humanoid deployments at GXO, BMW and UBTech, $12.6B poured into quantum, post-quantum cryptography already here, and AI quietly becoming the connecting tissue between all of it. The future arrives when intelligence, computation and physical action work together reliably enough for people to depend on them. That's what Shimmy says.
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