SITUATION EXPLAINED: SemiAnalysis asks where a robot's brain should live. • The essay is "A Brain Too Big to Carry", and the question is whether inference runs on the robot or in a data center • On-device gives fast, reliable responses but hits hard limits on compute, memory, power, and cooling • Off-device removes those limits but adds network latency, which matters far more when the system is moving through the physical world • Boston Dynamics' Atlas splits the difference. Fast movement runs…