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Robotics Isn't "Hey Hi", Robotics Isn't New Either

Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino has turned the official Arduino blog into a promotional platform for Qualcomm's 'agentic AI' chips, according to critics who accuse the company of conflating robotics with speech recognition and hyping outdated technology. The blog's content shifted to spam-like marketing immediately after the sale, with an associate noting that organic content has largely been replaced by promotional material.

read1 min views1 publishedSep 2, 2026

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Is the official Arduino blog becoming shilling platform for Qualcomm's "hey hi" [so-called 'intelligent'] chips? Watch out, be vigilant and sensitive to hype.

Robotics isn't slop. Slop is not AI. And AI isn't slop. Robotics is also very old. This new blog post is conflating robotics with speech recognition, which is very old stuff (about as old as me). Those are two very different things, but they add buzzwords like "agentic", "hey hi", and then "edge".

With lessened demand (hence fewer sales) come layoffs, due to a lack of demand, not more automation, robotics, or "hey hi era" (or "revolution" as they like to call it).

With this false narrative, the "Arduino blog is shilling something," an associate says, though "they still have a small amount of organic content... for now. But all too much is spam. It changed basically the same day the sale [to Qualcomm] went through."

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