Robotics
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s hardest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before.On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model that powers…
A former Formula One engineer left the world’s fastest race cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories.Now, his Munich-based startup, microagi, has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone,…
The race to build useful humanoids is coming down to the hands.1X, which builds the home humanoid NEO, unveiled a new robotic hand last week that it says matches or exceeds human performance. The company said the hand can pour tea, sort grapes by color, plug in a USB-C charger,…
Before the robots go to work, they have to go to school.Apptronik, a Texas-based humanoid startup that counts Google and Mercedes among its investors, has opened a “Robot Park” in Austin. At the nearly 90,000-square-foot warehouse, its Apollo robots practice tasks like loading boxes onto conveyor belts and sorting toys…
