Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after 30 years at the company

Robert Playter announcd he is leaving Boston Dynamics after 30 years at the company in various roles, including six years as CEO.

OpenAI and Hugging face angels back "highest-ever" Hungarian pre-seed funding round

A Hungarian robotics hardware startup says it has raised the “highest-ever” pre-seed funding round in the country’s history. Allonic has raised $7.2m in pre-seed funding, in a round led by Visionari…

Gather AI, maker of ‘curious’ warehouse drones, lands $40M led by Keith Block’s firm 

Gather AI has closed funding from former Salesforce CEO’s firm Smith Point Capital. Its warehouse AI system doesn’t just scan. It seeks out specific data.

Watch the Atlas robot’s bloopers before it finally nails a challenging move

The tech wizards at Boston Dynamics are continuing to refine the physical abilities of its Atlas humanoid robot. A new video (above) released by the Massachusetts-based company kicks off with Atlas performing a cartwheel followed by a backflip, which i…

Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants 

Carbon Robotics’ Large Plant Model will allow farmers to kill new types of weeds without having to retrain the machines.

Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains

If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who’ve been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

Ode to Very Small Devices
Ode to Very Small Devices

As fairies for the Irish or leeks for Welsh,it’s the secret lives of small hidden machines,their junctures, and networks that inspire me:Mystic hidden functionaries that makeour made world live, brave little servo motors,whose couplers, whose eccentri…

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More European SPAC IPOs to come, says Einride boss

The CEO of Swedish autonomous truck startup Einride believes more European startups will follow Einride and go public via a SPAC.Einride is going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC (Spec…

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