Tag: Robotics
Agility Robotics reaches Nasdaq without a shipping product
The first US-listed pure-play humanoid robot maker raised roughly $465M on an order book for a robot due…
Physicl raises 10 million to make simulation honest enough for robots
The seed round led by Inovia Capital funds a platform that turns messy real-world scans into physically accurate…
AgiBot proposes a robot metric built on hours rather than units
The Shanghai humanoid maker unveiled hardware, foundation models and a formula it hopes will replace shipment counts as…
One Claude model refused to aim a needle at a living mouse
A biotech founder wired an AI agent to a surgical rig and let it plan a brain injection,…
Opentrons raises $40M to put benchtop robots in more labs
The twelve-year-old lab automation company wants its pipetting robots and the AI software around them in every wet…
Nvidia cuts robot video labeling to cents with three small models
Flora splits annotation into segments, captions and rewards, and Nvidia says it already labels 200,000 hours a day.
Eka Robotics reaches $1.45B on a gripper that learns by touch
An a16z-led $150M Series A backs a manipulation stack that adapts to unfamiliar objects without retraining.
Voxel51 rolls robot sensor data and labeling into one stack
Version 3.0 adds time-series multimodal support and an agent with more than 45 MCP tools, plus a free…
Kyutai builds cheap memory into a 2.4B robot model
REKI keeps the last three frames inside its action expert using 32 register tokens, cutting arm oscillation from…
Google pitches one Gemini model for the whole robot stack
Gemini 4 Argon builds its own simulations, grades training video and writes control code, though the demos still…
Laplace builds AI red teams for robots and self-driving cars
An Ann Arbor startup wants to stress-test physical AI systems before they reach the real world, using AI…
Odyssey opens a world model you can walk through
The startup put Odyssey-3 into a free public preview that generates explorable environments in real time.