4 predictions in 2026: 1. Humanoid robots will perform unsupervised, multi-day tasks in homes they’ve never seen before - driven entirely by neural networks. These tasks will span long time horizons, going straight from pixels to torques 2. Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are fully piloted, built conforming to FAA standards and will start demonstrating end-to-end validation missions in cities 3. Daily AI usage will shift: people will move beyond text chatbots to highly multimodal systems. Voice agents with persistent memory will become common - which will push AI closer to the synthetic human intelligence we’ve imagined in sci-fi 4. Over the past 10 years, school shootings have increased roughly 10x. In 2026, the first full scanning system capable of detecting weapons from a 20-foot standoff will be built and beta-tested in a K–12 school