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- September 1, 2026Revised September 16, 202635 min readEssayRoboticsAIEconomics
Cybercab, Robotaxi Fleets, and the Economic Structure of Autonomous Mobility
The dominant public argument about autonomous ride-hailing treats the driver as a cost line to be deleted. This paper argues that the driver is not a cost line but a bundle of four distinct economic functions — labor, distributed capital provision, liability absorption, and deman…
Oleksii Vergunenko - August 29, 2026Revised September 16, 202623 min readEssayBioTechRoboticsChemistryMaterialsEngineering
Engineered Living Materials as Robotic Integuments: Platforms, Specifications, and a Bandwidth Argument for Hybrid Skin
Engineered living materials (ELMs) — materials in which living cells are a load-bearing, functional component rather than a contaminant — have been proposed as a covering layer for robots. Three platforms have produced physical demonstrations: tissue-engineered mammalian dermis a…
Oleksii Vergunenko