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Insider Brief Logistics startup Stord has raised $250 million in a Series F round at a $3 billion valuation and launched a new physical AI and robotics lab in Atlanta to go up against Amazon’s e-commerce and fulfillment network. The round was led by existing investors and included Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin […]
Read full articleHuman Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.
Insider Brief Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric has signed a three-year agreement with the Chiba Institute of Technology to jointly develop physical AI technologies and autonomous robotics systems for everything from manufacturing to infrastructure maintenance. The initiative will focus on developing “homegrown” physical AI technologies capable of adapting to real-world environments and performing more autonomous tasks, according […]
Two model classes get conflated in robotics conversations: vision-language models and vision-language-action models. They sound similar, both ingest images and text, and both come from the same lineage of multimodal pretraining. But for anyone trying to deploy an AI system that moves — not just describes — the distinction is decisive. VLM vs VLA is […]
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Armada, which builds modular data centres for AI deployment in remote and sensitive environments, has closed a heavily oversubscribed Series B co-led by Overmatch, BlackRock, and 8090 Industries, bringing total funding to nearly $500 million. New strategic investors include Johnson Controls, NightDragon, Mitsui, and Singtel Innov8, alongside existing backers Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Felicis. […]
Decart, a vertically integrated AI research lab specialising in real-time video and world models, has raised $300 million in a round led by Radical Ventures. NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, Toyota Ventures, and eBay Ventures joined as new investors alongside returning backers Sequoia Capital and Benchmark. Amazon is a strategic customer, and individual backers include OpenAI co-founder […]
Insider Brief GE Vernova announced an agreement to aquire Canadian robotics and automation integrator Robotech Automation. The energy technology company did not disclose the financial details of the deal, but said the acquisition will expand its robotics capabilities and automation efforts across its manufacturing and supply chain operations. GE Vernova said the transaction is expected […]
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
