Venture capital deals climbed from $160 million across 16 deals in 2023 to $360 million for 29 deals last year. But founders say local investors remain more cautious than Silicon Valley.

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The deal involves a local business with 50 employees and that mowed almost 2 billion square feet of grass last year.

AmbiVision is available as a software application within AI Skill Suite, powered by AmbiOS. The technology is already operating within existing customer deployments and AmbiVision’s high-resolution ...

Major League Baseball’s experiment of a robot umpire technology system allowing challenges to checked swing calls is moving from Class A to Triple-A.

Flexiv, a global leader in general-purpose robotics, is pleased to announce that it has secured a new strategic investment.

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

After a year-long pilot project, Toyota’s Canadian manufacturing subsidiary has contracted seven humanoid robots to work in a plant building RAV4 SUVs under a robots-as-a-service deal. “After ...

A Chinese robotics company recently did something most tech firms would never dare attempt. Agibot put more than 200 robots on stage for a live one-hour televised event called Agibot Night. The gala ...

Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...

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