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Almost a year ago to the day, Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock responded to some gentle social media taunting from rival robotics company Agility with a prediction: “You’ll be bankrupt … Read More
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots, announced it has raised a $60 million Series B round … Read More
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a distinction in the vocabulary of embodied intelligence that is rarely made explicit. It is the difference between the unit and … Read More
A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab , which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth at a $300 million valuation. (The company declined to share … Read More
Tesla is finally handing over the first of its all-electric Semi trucks to customers after nearly a decade of delays and refinements to the vehicle, which it first revealed in … Read More
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a pattern in the most interesting brand names of the AI era. They do not describe what a company does. They … Read More
Waymo’s commercial robotaxi ramp-up looks expansive, both in geographic reach and in ridership. And by almost every measure, it is — until you pay attention to where the bulk of … Read More
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a quiet revolution happening in brand naming, and it is being waged not in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, but in … Read More
If there is one thing robotics founders and investors agree on, it’s that the “ChatGPT moment” where a general-purpose robot can seamlessly adapt to any environment has not arrived. Opinions … Read More
Humanoids aren’t quite ready to replace factory workers, but the industry can’t wait. Faced with labor shortages, manufacturers have shown growing interest in startups that promise faster automation without the … Read More
Robotics companies often have to deal with a simple but confounding problem: Robots produce a lot of data. Even a simple robot can easily produce up to a terabyte of … Read More
Finland’s weather is notoriously unfriendly; but even so, your food order might be delivered by a drone. On a rainy day after Helsinki’s annual Slush conference, Finnish entrepreneur Ville Leppälä … Read More
