Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
The Wrenchpoint Theory: when AI can fix your sink
A falsifiable forecast and benchmark for the moment embodied AI becomes a dependable physical service.
Why it surfacedRafael Silva turns an ordinary plumbing repair into a severe test of physical intelligence: an unseen home, no human on site, fewer than 10% remote interventions, more than 90% first-visit success, and a price within 25% of a human callout. Its best line may be the status report: “Brains ready. Hands learning. Insurance terrified.”
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.