AUTONOMOUS 2026
Rya Jetha
Sr Reporter
BUSINESS INSIDER
Rya is a senior reporter at Business Insider covering physical AI and robotics. She writes about factory automation, humanoid robots, and the race to collect the real-world data needed to bring AI into the physical world. She previously worked at The San Francisco Standard, where she reported on tech culture and autonomous vehicles. She has a bachelor’s degree in history and politics from Pomona College and a master’s in history from the University of Cambridge.
Their sessions
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Self-Driving Excavators: Autonomy Comes to the Jobsite
The team teaching heavy machines to drive themselves. Why the construction site may be the next great frontier for real-world autonomy.
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Factories at the Speed of Software
The "robotic blacksmith": AI-driven robots that form metal with no dies and no fixed tooling, turning the factory itself into something you can reprogram.