Report: Nvidia and SoftBank to invest $1B in robotic brains startup Skild AI
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. are reportedly holding talks with the robotic artificial intelligence startup Skild AI over a $1 billion investment. The proposed round would bring the startup’s valuation to more than $14 billion. Skild AI was last v…
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Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin
Kirsten Korosec / techcrunch - The agency already opened an investigation in October over Waymo's performance around school buses.
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Uber is launching a robotaxi service in Dallas
mashable - Uber is launching an autonomous taxi service in Dallas, though it's not completely autonomous yet.
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AILOS Robotics gets €3.5M to scale gearbox manufacturing for Europe’s next-gen robots
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Brussels-based AILOS Robotics has raised €3.5 million in a seed round led by QBIC and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with participation from Wallonie Entreprendre andfinance&invest.brussels, reinf...
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Wayve doubles down on data with Quality Match acquisition
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Wayve, the London-based autonomous driving software unicorn, has acquired data quality assurance startup Quality Match as it pursues data accuracy as a cornerstone of its strategy. Based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Quality Match specialises in interpre…
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Gravis Robotics raises $23M to scale autonomous earthmoving tech
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Swiss-based earthmoving autonomy platform Gravis Roboticshas secured $23 million in fresh funding, co-led by IQ Capital and Zacua Ventures, with participation from Pear VC, Imad (CVC of Nesma & Pa...
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Neuracore Secures $3M To Power Next-gen Robots And Open Robotics Research
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Neuracore, a robot learning platform focused on rapid scaling and deployment, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Clem Delangue, Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face, and advisors from …
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ElevenLabs and Revolut backer launches $15M solo GP fund
John Reynolds / tech - An angel investor in UK AI unicorn ElevenLabs and Revolut has launched a $15m solo GP fund to back pre-seed and seed stage founders building startups across AI, robotics, and defence.Carles Reina has ...
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Uber and WeRide’s robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi is officially driverless
Kirsten Korosec / techcrunch - The commercial robotaxi service launched last year. Now, the human safety operator is gone.
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Takeoff of China's flying taxis hits turbulence
techxplore - An unmanned, oval-shaped craft from flying taxi maker EHang hovers, whirring noisily like a mini-helicopter over a riverside innovation zone on the outskirts of the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou, part of a trial of a mini-flying taxi that onc…
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AI robots with the power to crush skulls? "Whistleblower" lawsuit sounds alarm on Figure AI
techspot - The case has been filed in the Northern District of California by Robert Gruendel, a principal robotic safety engineer. He alleges that he was dismissed from Figure AI in September after lodging safety complaints about the company's humanoid robots.Read E…
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Waymo gets California DMV's approval to test robotaxis in more areas
Mariella Moon / engadget - The California DMV has approved Waymo’s request to conduct driverless testing and to deploy its robotaxis in more locations in the state. As CBS News reports, Waymo now has the permission to operate across the whole Bay Area, Sacramento and most of Southe…
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Waymo is coming to five more cities
engadget - Waymo is launching in five new cities across Texas and Florida. Autonomous vehicles in Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando will begin accepting rides next year.The Alphabet-owned company said operations (sans passengers) will begin on Tuesday…
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Zoox begins offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco, facing off with Waymo
cnbc - Riders can sign up to join the "Zoox Explorers" program to take free rides on the company's box-shaped vehicles in certain San Francisco neighborhoods.
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Jeff Bezos Launches $6.2B AI Startup Project Prometheus
Datamation Staff / datamation - The startup is aiming at the physical world with robotics-powered manufacturing that could reshape everything from spacecraft to computer chips.
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Waymo to roll out driverless taxis on highways in three US cities
Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times / arstechnica - Alphabet will add routes in LA, Phoenix, and San Francisco for its driverless cars.
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Russia's AI Robot Falls Seconds After Being Unveiled
BeauHD / slashdot - Russia's first AI humanoid robot, Aldol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday. "The robot was being led on stage to the soundtrack from the film 'Rocky,' before it suddenly lost its balance and fell," reports the BB…
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Waymo begins offering freeway robotaxi rides in San Francisco, LA and Phoenix
cnbc - The Google sister company has been testing robotaxi freeway rides with employees for more than a year.
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Autonomous EV trucking company Einride going public in SPAC deal valuing it at $1.8 billion
cnbc - Swedish autonomous EV trucking company Einride is planning to go public on the NYSE through a SPAC deal with Legato Merger Corp. III valuing it at $1.8 billion.
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Elon Musk's Road to $1 TRILLION Paved by Tesla Robots and Robotaxis video
Jesse Orrall / cnet - Flanked by a couple of Optimus Robots, Elon Musk took to the stage at Tesla's Annual Shareholder Meeting after investors voted to award him a $1 trillion performance award, provided he hits some very ambitious goals.
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