The biggest growth vertical for robotics and AI is middleware or tools for robotics
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Other verticals that are going well for robotics also include food, health and beauty, construction, cargo (including aerial cargo), airport logistics and machine tending.
I’m betting that the demise of Astro is overstated. The home version still exists and Apple is about to announce a home AI play which involves a tabletop robot.
“Amazon Will Brick Its $2,350 Astro Robots Just 10 Months After Release
Business customers will get a refund, and the home version still exists. But … still.”
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Skild AI Grabs $300M To Build Robot Brains - Crunchbase (see also PYMNTS)
Skild AI, $300M, robotics: The good year for robotics startups continued this week. Skild AI became the latest such startup to raise big, locking in a $300 million Series A led by Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SoftBank Group and Jeff Bezos, through his Bezos Expeditions. The funding brings the company to a valuation of $1.5 billion. The Pittsburgh-based startup isn’t building robots, however, it’s building robot brains. The theory is that those brain models can then be used in a variety of robots and for different tasks — instead of just having one application. It seems a lot of big-name investors agree with that strategy.
Jacobi Robotics raises $5M for motion planning software - The Robot Report
Standard Bots reels in $63M for its AI-powered robotic arms - Silicon Angle
General Catalyst, Amazon Back AI-Powered Robotics Startup - Bloomberg
Rise of the Restaurant Robots: Chipotle, Sweetgreen and Others Bet on Automation - WSJ
Chef Robotics Comes Out of Stealth to Show Off Robot and Reveal Early Customers - The Spoon
Chef Robotics CEO: ‘A lot of robotics companies have made grandiose promises, but they haven’t really shipped any robots. We’re much more practical’ - AFN
A robot built their homes: Texas homebuyers moving into world’s largest-scale 3D-printed community - REaltor.com
World’s first mobile brikclayer robot that boosts construction speed enters US - Interesting Engineering
I haven’t mowed my lawn in nearly two years, and it’s never looked better - CNET
‘Let the robots do it’: Some Philadelphia crews look to modern technology to stay cool - ABC6
One third of the military could be robotic, Milley predicts - Axios
Google Shows Off AI-Powered Robots That Are Ready To Serve - Inverse
Meet the AI-powered robots Big Tech is betting can solve the global labor crisis - CNBC
FANUC unveils new $110M robotics and automation campus - Assembly
FANUC America has created more than 400 jobs in Michigan since 2019. The West Campus provides advanced product manufacturing and customized automation systems. It includes warehouse space for more than 6,000 quick-delivery robots and tens of thousands of parts.
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