robotics

Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, computer science, and others.

(source: en.wikipedia.org)

Skild AI Raises $300 Million to Build ‘General-Purpose Brain’ for Robots
Skild AI Raises $300 Million to Build ‘General-Purpose Brain’ for Robots
July 11, 2024  |  Investments

Skild AI has raised $300 million in a Series A funding round to build an artificial intelligence (AI) model for robotics. The company will use...

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Amazon Drops SMB Robot to Focus on Home Robot
Amazon Drops SMB Robot to Focus on Home Robot
July 03, 2024  |  Amazon

Amazon is discontinuing its security robot designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) about eight months after introducing it. The company will instead concentrate its...

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Sanctuary AI Marks $140 Million in Funding for ‘Humanlike’ Robots
Sanctuary AI Marks $140 Million in Funding for ‘Humanlike’ Robots
July 03, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Canada’s Sanctuary AI has landed new funding to create “humanlike intelligence in general purpose robots.” The unspecified funding amount, announced Wednesday (July 3), came from venture...

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Nvidia’s New AI Simulator Could Rev Up Self-Driving Cars
Nvidia’s New AI Simulator Could Rev Up Self-Driving Cars
June 19, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Chip maker Nvidia announced on Monday (June 17) a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) simulation software in an attempt to turbocharge the development of self-driving...

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Is Former Synapse CEO Already Moving on With a Robotics Startup?
Is Former Synapse CEO Already Moving on With a Robotics Startup?
June 13, 2024  |  Business

To paraphrase a famous F. Scott Fitzgerald quote, there are no second acts in life. The Gatsby scribe had never met a tech CEO. The...

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From Factories to the Fast Lane, Unpacking Autonomy’s Potential
From Factories to the Fast Lane, Unpacking Autonomy’s Potential
May 08, 2024  |  Technology

As the electric vehicle (EV) landscape shows signs of short-circuiting, automakers are eyeing another innovation. One more futuristic, and more fitting, for our rising artificial...

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This Week in AI: Beyond LLMs, AI Forklifts, Weather Forecasting
This Week in AI: Beyond LLMs, AI Forklifts, Weather Forecasting
April 26, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, as large language models (LLMs) near technical limits, the focus shifts to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which combines information...

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Robo-Forklifts Rev Up Walmart’s Warehouses
Robo-Forklifts Rev Up Walmart’s Warehouses
April 25, 2024  |  Walmart

In Walmart’s sprawling distribution centers, a quiet change is underway. The retail behemoth is preparing to deploy a fleet of 19 autonomous electric forklifts across four of its facilities, marking a...

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Tesla Calls Itself an AI, Robotics Company as Profits Plunge 55% 
Tesla Calls Itself an AI, Robotics Company as Profits Plunge 55% 
April 23, 2024  |  Earnings

There was nothing electric about electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla’s latest financial results. The company reported its first quarter 2024 earnings results Tuesday (April 23), disclosing...

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