Last summer, Hayward-based Abundant Robotics abruptly closed up shop. Plenty of startups fail, a phenomenon that certainly applies in the notoriously difficult world of robotics. But the pandemic has proven […]
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Back to news homePaack pulls in a $225M Series D led by SoftBank to scale its E-commerce delivery platform
By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots which populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others. In particular, Amazon was very much […]
Daily Crunch: Google dumps FloC plan, proposes new Topics API for ad targeting
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Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light
Tech sees differently, and can fuse multiple types of data we can’t even perceive: lidar, IR, ultrasonic, and so on. Metalenz, maker of highly compact “2D” cameras for advanced sensing, […]
Warehouse robotics system Exotec raises $335 million
French startup Exotec has raised a $335 million Series D round in a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs’ Growth Equity business. Following today’s investment, the company has […]
Singapore-based Sesto Robotics targets international expansion with $5.7M raise
Singapore-based industrial robotics firm Sesto this week announced a $5.7 million raise, featuring TRIVE, WTI GmbH and SEEDS Capital (Enterprise Singapore’s VC wing). The round follows a similarly sized $4 […]
3 views on CES 2022
For fifty-four years, big and small hardware manufacturers that hoped to reach their target audiences rolled out new products at the Consumer Electronics Show. The first CES event in June […]
New Year’s robolutions
This is always a strange week — that liminal space between the Christmas holiday and New Year. Romjul — or “Dead Week” — as they call it in Norway (thanks […]
Warehouse robotics startup ForwardX raises $31M in first Series C close
ForwardX Robotics, a Beijing-headquartered company that makes autonomous mobile robots (AMR), said Tuesday it has closed the initial tranche of its Series C funding round as it looks to expand […]
If we can’t design autonomous robots, maybe they can design themselves
Gideon Kimbrell Contributor Gideon Kimbrell is the co-founder and CEO of InList. More posts by this contributor 3 gadgets not quite ready for prime time Elon Musk’s recent announcement of […]