Category: Robotics
iRobot debt acquired by contract manufacturer as bankruptcy looms
iRobot negotiations with another potential acquirer fell through, and its main creditor has set a deadline of Jan. 15 for certain conditions.
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ROBOTERA gets Series A funding, partners with UNIDO on embodied intelligence
ROBOTERA has raised funding toward general-purpose humanoid and service robots, which it is developing with UN support.
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U.S. backs Zipline with $150M for drone delivery in Africa
Zipline said the deal could triple the number of hospitals and health facilities it serves from 5,000 to 15,000.
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Popular AI models aren’t ready to safely run robots, say CMU researchers
CMU and King’s College London evaluated how robots using LLMs behave when they have access to personal information.
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Why companies don’t share AV crash data – and how they could
Anton Grabolle / Autonomous Driving / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Susan Kelley Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been tested as taxis for decades in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and around the world, and trucking companies have enormous incentives to adopt them. But AV companies rarely share the crash- and safety-related data that is crucial to improving […]
Waymo launching driverless robotaxis in 5 more cities
Waymo said it has entered a new phase of commercial scale, doubling the number of cities it operates in without a human specialist in the car.
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