Episode features conversations with two VC’s and explores robotics and AI investment trends.

Stretch AI is a powerful toolkit designed to help researchers and developers create intelligent behaviors for Hello Robot’s Stretch 3 mobile manipulator.

AMP Robotics will use its latest funding to deploy AMP ONE system, which is designed to improve sortation of municipal solid waste.

Project CETI researchers developed the AVATARs framework to make the most out of the small amount of time sperm whales spend on the surface.

AWS and NVIDIA said that Isaac Sim on Amazon Web Services can significantly accelerate and scale robot simulation and AI training.

In November 2024, stories about the future of robotics, big robot milestones, and new product unveilings grabbed our readers’ attention.

Oxipital AI says its advanced vision system is more compact, delivers greater precision, and is more affordable than its predecessor.

Andrew Clare, CTO of Nuro, discusses the current state of self-driving vehicles and software and the road to Level 5 autonomy.

Digitalization of the warehouse involves several emerging technologies; attendees of this free webinar can learn from industry experts.

Imagry has developed hardware-agnostic systems to provide Level 4 autonomy to buses with time to market in mind.

Smart Vision Works said its SiftAI robotic potato sorter will pay for itself in fewer than two years from installation.

The EDU program offers subscribers full access to Falcon’s comprehensive feature set, alongside community resources developed by Duality AI.

With this expanded deployment of zero-occupant vehicles, the company said Nuro Driver is ready to autonomously transport people and goods.

LucidSim uses generative AI and physics simulators to create realistic virtual training environments that help robots learns tasks without any real-world data.

Theia is a visual foundation model that the AI Institute says can distill diverse models for policy learning at a lower computation cost.

Brain Corp marked the latest milestone as deployments of mobile robots using its BrainOS cloud platform grow across sectors.

Researchers said the successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots could eliminate the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic surgery closer to true autonomy.

DeepRoute.ai announced strategic funding led by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor to develop a full self-driving stack.

Agility Robotics gives insight into how it trains its humanoid robot Digit in simulation using NVIDIA’s robotics tools.

Gecko Robotics has developed Fulcrum, which uses AI to provide high-quality infrastructure data to its Cantilever analytics software.

CynLr, which is developing technology to enable robots to manipulate unknown objects, will grow its team and expand its supply chain network.

The Stanford Robotics Center and Stanford HAI have partnered to explain rapid advances in artificial intelligence to policymakers.