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The rationality of irrational robotics investments
The big problem for robotics funding isn’t the technology. It’s the timing. Robotics technology has emerged just in time to catch some tailwinds for early stage funding in the 2012-2020 period, but is now hitting funding headwinds. Ironical...
AI Expert Doesn't Worry About a Robot Takeover
Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, who has spent more than 30 years studying AI, says that when we worry about job losses or robot takeovers, we’re worrying about the wrong things altogether.
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RLDX-1 beats Pi 0.5 and Groot 1.6 on SOTA dexterity benchmarks
RLDX-1 from Real World (RLWRLD) is a dexterity-first foundation model for robot hands, announced on Wednesday May 13 at the SF Exploratorium. RLWRLD is targeting the manufacturing and logistics market but many of the benchmark tasks and cap...
🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - April 2026
Warehouses, drones, humanoids and more drones
Warehouses, drones, humanoids, more drones and underwater ones. In April, the maturity of drone funding was noticeable, as well as the ongoing interest in logistics robots, robotics components...
Robot familiars, is AI or UI the next frontier?
Colin Angle, longtime CEO of Roomba, unveils a four-legged prototype of artificial pet Daphne, called a Familiar, at The WSJ Future of Everything, in New York, Monday May 4 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
With Familiar Machines & Magic Colin...
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