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😠More robots roaming around looking scary af
💎 Moonpay launches AI payments platform Paybox
The Dystopia of Autonomous Robots
If you’ve seen the movie X-Men: Days of Future Past, you’d have seen these Sentinels — unstoppable and scary-looking robots that have been made to hunt and kill our protagonists.
Well, that was more than a decade ago, but we got something similar that broke the internet:
This is the Threehalves Centaur by Satyress: a 7-foot tall half-human, half-horse machine that can travel across difficult terrain and goes into areas dangerous to humans.
Horror show aside, this makes sense: a human operator controls it with a joystick, the arms are modular and can be replaced with different tools, and there are clear use cases for it:
Wildfire areas - save animals or cut down obstacles
Mine-sweeping
Entering collapsed buildings
Extracting casualties from toxic zones.
Its top speed is 14mph; that’s about the sprinting speed of an untrained adult. So that’s good to know when it’s chasing you down.
No doubt these photos are a marketing stunt (which worked, look at that thing), but it also gives rise to a conversation about how these things look and are used.
Are we supposed to make every robot look friendly so pedestrian children don’t get nightmares?
It’s just like this video of a patrolling robot dog: its engineers made sure to get it to shrug after scanning a passer-by to make sure it wasn’t that weird.
There’s no way we won’t be having conversations like this a lot more once the robots are allowed to freely roam the streets (oh wait, they already are!)
The global autonomous mobile robot (AMR) market size is valued at approximately $5.18 billion in 2026 and is projected to scale up to $10.56 billion by 2031.
So buckle up — there’s a lot more of that to come.
Moonpay Introduces PayBox
Until last week, AI assistants were great researchers and terrible shoppers — they'd find the flight, compare the prices, then hand you back to a checkout page like a bellhop who drops your luggages at the door.
MoonPay just fixed that. PayBox launched July 29 as the first non-custodial payment vault built for AI — connecting directly to Claude and ChatGPT so users can book flights, make restaurant reservations, trade crypto, and shop on Amazon without ever leaving the conversation.
The security is the part worth noting: PayBox uses multi-party computation from Sodot — the Israeli cryptographic firm MoonPay acquired for ~$100 million in April — splitting wallet keys across hardware-isolated enclaves so neither the AI, MoonPay, nor your device alone can sign a transaction without you.
Users set their own permission levels, from approving every transaction to letting the agent operate autonomously within spending limits.
At launch it runs across Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Hyperliquid, and Robinhood Chain, with x402 handling machine-to-machine payments and Visa's agentic protocol routing card transactions.
MoonPay's CEO said it best: "The card hid the cash. The phone hid the card. This is the era where money disappears into conversation."
So an AI no longer just talks about purchasing for you, it can go all the way in a secure manner.
In other news
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $20B fund sells its stake to Citadel after steep losses (CNBC)
Kamino Launches AUTO, Bringing U.S. Auto Loan Yield Onchain: Borrow, Lend, and Loop AUTO (Kamino)
Storj Labs Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (Business Insider)
Kaito Introduces Katalyst: A New Reward Layer for Creator Campaigns (Kaito)
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