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New York school pauses humanoid robot ‘Sally’ after state and union pushback

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A humanoid robot named Sally was due to take a seat in a Western New York high-school classroom this autumn, silicone skin, long brown hair, and all. Instead she is on hold. A plan that had quietly cleared the Salamanca school board back in June turned, over the following weeks, into a public fight over […]

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Enigma raised $70M to let anyone online control its robots and figure out how humans actually want to talk to machines

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Enigma, a robotics research lab less than a year old, is emerging from stealth with a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners. The startup is not building a foundation model to make robots more capable. It is studying how humans actually want to […]

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Dopl Technologies raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasound to rural hospitals

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Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance a telerobotic ultrasound platform toward FDA clearance. The system, called Traverse, lets sonographers remotely operate a robotic arm via haptic controllers and cameras to perform diagnostic ultrasound exams on patients at distant sites. The platform is hardware-agnostic, integrating off-the-shelf robots and […]

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SoftBank is reportedly weighing a deal for Swiss robotics startup Gravis

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Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout, fits autonomy kits to excavators. A tie-up would extend Masayoshi Son’s robotics buying spree from the factory floor to the building site. SoftBank is weighing a deal for Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup that fits excavators and diggers with the sensors and software to run themselves, according to Bloomberg. The […]

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Genesis AI is in talks to raise about $500m for its robot brains

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Genesis AI, the startup building foundation models that it hopes will run inside a wide range of robots, is in talks to raise about $500m, according to Bloomberg. A round of that size would value the company at roughly $3bn, capping a fast climb for a business that only came out of stealth last summer. […]

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Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled

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Elon Musk told investors on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call that Optimus will be “the hardest product to scale manufacturing that we’ve ever made at Tesla,” warning that the humanoid robot has no existing supply chain and that every component is new. He said he wanted to “calibrate people correctly” on expectations, acknowledging that the initial […]

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Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in

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Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial-AI and robotics company he has built in near-total stealth for years. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Its co-founder Ben Horowitz is joining the board. And among the investors sits […]

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Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

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The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a simulated body, millions of times over. The company has […]

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Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan

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Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that move. Tamba is president and chief executive of Noetra, a Tokyo company that began full-scale research in July on a home-grown foundation […]

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Gritt raises $32M for AI robots that bolt onto existing construction equipment to build solar farms faster

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San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participating, following an earlier pre-seed […]

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