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Robotics startup FieldAI has hit a $100 million milestone
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BYD's Stella Li tells BI she wants to put humanoid robots in every car showroom
BYD executive vice president Stella Li said building humanoid robots for the home and service industry will be a "huge" market for the company.
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Delivery robot startup Robot.com is betting its next act on workplace humanoids
Robot.com is expanding beyond campus-delivery bots with a new wheeled-humanoid that the company said can be deployed across several industries.
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I let robot-trainers clean my apartment for free. It was unsettling, but I got over it.
I invited cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment. They worked for free — but recorded the process to train AI robots.
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Amazon's next warehouse efficiency drive is about moving humans, not just packages
Amazon is testing software to move warehouse workers more efficiently, aiming to save millions of labor hours a year, internal documents show.
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This AI robot startup thinks humanoids are overrated
While rivals chase humanoids, Genesis AI is betting the robot future will roll on wheels instead.
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Meet the 22 investors to know in robotics and physical AI
Investors focus on robotics and physical AI, raising $23 billion this year, as technology evolves from software to real-world applications.
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Coram raised $35 million to turn security cameras into AI detectives
The security company works with existing cameras today, but Coram's CEO sees robot dogs and humanoids as part of the startup's future.
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First look: This weird wearable device turns human workers into robot data collectors
We got the first look at Instacore, Instawork's wearable camera rig for collecting robot training data.
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This robotics CEO wants to automate the work that makes people quit
Robot.com CEO Felipe Chavez said he wants to build an ecosystem of robots that will handle boring, repetitive tasks.
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He lives with 3 identical sex dolls. He dreams of one perfect sex robot.
A decade ago, experts predicted a sex-robot boom. Instead, AI companions took off while sex robots struggled to improve.
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This startup will clean your apartment for free, if AI can watch
shift is part of a growing scramble for real-world data as AI companies try to train machines to work in homes, warehouses, and factories.
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Silicon Valley's new slogan: Let's get physical
Silicon Valley's AI boom is moving into robotics as OpenAI, Meta, Tesla, and startups race to give AI a body.
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This startup wants to clean your dirty dishes and clutter for free to help train AI
Shift, an AI training startup, offers free home cleanings in NYC, using head-mounted cameras to gather data for training household robots.
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Figure AI's CEO just raised $700 million for his next big bet
Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, raises $700M, aiming to compete with OpenAI, Apple, Google, and Meta in AI hardware innovation.
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Figure AI had one of its robots race an intern to sort packages. See who lost.
Figure AI's intern outperformed a humanoid robot in a package sorting contest, highlighting the challenges in robotics automation.
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Silicon Valley's latest binge-watch is a humanoid warehouse worker
Figure AI's livestream of a humanoid robot sorting packages drew millions of views, and showed the promise and limits of warehouse automation.
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Roomba inventor Colin Angle made robots useful. Now he wants to make them lovable.
Roomba creator Colin Angle's Familiar Machines debuted a cuddly, pet-like robot for companionship, focusing on AI-driven emotional support.
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Figure AI's robots can make a bed faster than you
Figure AI release a video of two humanoid robots making a bed together — a deceptively hard task that tests coordination, vision, and dexterity.
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