Culture Reporter 

Zara Stone

The robotaxis went head-to-head in a high-stakes race from SoMa to Jackson Square. 

The Standard’s definitive, unscientific list of the season’s biggest cultural trends.

The year-old robotics firm Foundation thinks its competitors are alarmingly pacifist, leaving money and American exceptionalism on the table.

The world's “first robot combat league” has been drawing sell-outs and driving FOMO. 

The vision for the 16-story Frontier Tower is ambitious. The ethos is scrappy. The furniture is a work in progress.