Why aren’t there more robots in homes? This a surprising complex question — and our homes are surprisingly complex places. A big part of the reason autonomous systems are thriving […]
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Back to news homeA claw machine does not a robotic gripper make
A refrain I hear from a lot of startups is that there’s “no need to rethink the gripper.” It’s something I appreciate from an economic standpoint. It’s expensive, resource intensive […]
Researchers are building robots that can build themselves
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms are working on an ambitious project, designing robots that effectively self-assemble. The team admits that the goal of an autonomous self-building robot […]
Deep tech VC First Star plots a $40M third fund
First Star, backer of deep tech startups like Plus One and Fyto, aims to raise as much as $40 million for its third venture fund, TechCrunch has learned. Based in […]
Meltem Demirors on why society isn’t ready for a crypto-driven revolution yet
Meltem Demirors hasn’t just been working in crypto for seven years — she’s been shaping its trajectory. Demirors, chief strategy officer at publicly traded European digital asset manager CoinShares, got […]
Why you must build a moat around early customers, according to Benchling’s CEO and co-founder
[embedded content] Benchling’s unicorn status didn’t come overnight. Some ten years after its founding, the company is worth more than $6 billion, and the founder sees the company going public […]
Announcing the full agenda for TC Sessions: Robotics happening this July
We’re extremely excited we can finally unveil the agenda for this year’s TC Sessions: Robotics happening 100% online on July 21. It’s a tremendous labor of love for our team, […]
Synergies raises $12M to give factory managers an AI analytics assistant
There’s no lack of startups around the world trying to make industrial activities more efficient with artificial intelligence. Some invent robots to assist or replace manual labor, while others use […]
Perceptron: AI mixes concrete, designs molecules, and thinks with space lasers
Welcome to Perceptron, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup of AI news and research from around the world. Machine learning is a key technology in practically every industry now, and there’s far too […]
Charged with billions in capital, meet the 9 startups developing tomorrow’s batteries today
Ford started production yesterday on its F-150 Lightning pickup truck, a do-or-die vehicle that takes the automaker’s — and the United States’ — best-selling vehicle and swaps its gas-guzzling engines […]