Category: Robotics
Humanoids, automation, and the next generation of physical labour.
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Bedrock Robotics has closed $600 million at $4.1 billion, and has not said how many excavators it runs
The round beats the rumoured price, while revenue and fleet size stay undisclosed.
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Tesla has started building Optimus in Fremont, and Musk calls the ramp slow and bumpy
Tesla’s shareholder letter calls them its first production-quality bots, while Musk says the hardware and the software both need substantial work.
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Eka is valued at $1.45 billion for a robot that picks 1,500 objects an hour, and the figure is the company’s own
The Series A rests on simulation-trained force sensing that has not yet run for a year on a real line.
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Waymo is heading to Toronto, its first Canadian city, and has set no date for a single rider
Ontario has approved a pilot, and the plan starts with hand-driven mapping in the company’s most wintry market.
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Bedrock Robotics is said to be raising $600 million at $3.5 billion, double its February price
The autonomous digger maker is reportedly pitching data-centre construction, and the terms come from a report, not the company.
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Agility Robotics’ SPAC deal has cleared the SEC, with a shareholder vote set for 2 November
The announcement carries orders, operating hours and a trust balance, and no revenue figure.
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Rivian’s robotics spinout has hired Doug Field to run it, a year after it was founded
Mind Robotics has raised more than $1 billion, and the news came with no product detail.
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Ultra raised $62 million renting packing robots to warehouses by the month, and will not say how many it has placed
The Brooklyn startup’s robots are not humanoid, and its chief executive thinks humanoids at scale are five years off.
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Uber will start testing robotaxis from China’s Pony.ai in London within weeks, with no date for passengers
London is getting its fourth robotaxi contender before it has approved a single driverless ride.
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Safeworld raised $12 million to test whether AI robots will hurt people, by simulating the people
Nobody can prove with mathematics that a learning robot is safe, so the startup runs thousands of virtual accidents instead.