Robotics

Less than a month until Disrupt 2025 — Book your exhibit table | TechCrunch

Robotics /

TechCrunch Disrupt isn’t just another tech conference packed with 10,000+ tech leaders — it’s the launchpad for startups and innovators.  Disrupt is where companies meet their first investors, form game-changing partnerships, and spark the ideas that take them to the next level. Your exhibit table could be the launchpad for your next big breakthrough, but time is running out.  With less than a month until […]

Less than a month until Disrupt 2025 — Book your exhibit table | TechCrunch Read More »

Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s ‘warehouse work’ with embodied-AI robots

Robotics /

Icarus Robotics co-founders Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer spent hours interviewing astronauts about what it was like working in space as they homed in on their startup idea. Their big takeaway: The work was often more cargo logistics than cutting-edge science. “We’re Amazon warehouse workers with PhDs,” one astronaut said. If an experiment takes two

Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space’s ‘warehouse work’ with embodied-AI robots Read More »

Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind

Robotics /

As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies will need to think about safety differently than they did when robots were largely siloed from their human counterparts.   Sonair thinks its sensors can help robotics companies reach their safety goals — with a solution that is both better and cheaper than popular LIDAR technology.   The Oslo,

Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind Read More »

Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware at Disrupt 2025

Robotics /

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders for three days of bold ideas, groundbreaking tech, and future-shaping conversations. One of the most highly anticipated sessions happening on one of the two AI Stages will spotlight where AI hardware is heading next,

Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware at Disrupt 2025 Read More »

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

Robotics /

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially robot brains designed to help everything from humanoids to quadrupeds to self-driving cars adapt to new environments. The company announced the funding Wednesday; the most recent round raised $314 million in

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains Read More »

How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company

Robotics /

When Bill Dally joined Nvidia’s research lab in 2009, it employed only about a dozen people and was focused on ray tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. That once-small research lab now employs more than 400 people, who have helped transform Nvidia from a video game GPU startup in the nineties to a

How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company Read More »

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

Robotics /

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots. Also joining the existing batch of Cosmos world models are Cosmos Transfer-2, which can accelerate synthetic data generation from

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses Read More »

Diligent Robotics hires two notable Cruise alumni to its leadership team

Robotics /

Diligent Robotics is bulking up its leadership team as the company looks to scale its fleet of humanoid robots that work in hospitals and pharmacies. Austin, Texas-based Diligent announced Thursday it appointed Rashed Haq as its chief technology officer and Todd Brugger as its chief operating officer. Both Haq and Brugger were most recently at

Diligent Robotics hires two notable Cruise alumni to its leadership team Read More »