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Tangent Robotics has successfully raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding aimed at developing dexterous robot hands tailored for manufacturing applications. The funding round was co-led by Fly Ventures and Toyota Ventures, with additional participation from Logos Fund and Sparked Ventures, as announ...
AthenaZero, developed by the RAI Institute, has showcased its capabilities by successfully catching a baseball from 7.3 meters away, with the ball's flight time being less than 0.4 seconds. Additionally, it demonstrated its batting skills by adjusting its swing based on the pitch location, achieving...
Tangent Robotics has announced the successful completion of a pre-seed funding round, raising $4.5 million to advance robotic fine motor skills. The funding will be utilized to develop advanced robotic manipulation capabilities that integrate hand hardware, touch sensing, and motor learning. This i...
Tangent Robotics has successfully raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding, led by Fly Ventures and Toyota Ventures, to enhance robotic manipulation systems aimed at high-precision industrial tasks. The funding will support the development of robot hands, light-based touch sensing, and motor learning...
On September 21, Fangqi Technology, a developer of embodied intelligence general-purpose brains, announced the completion of an angel round funding exceeding ten million yuan, with investors including Qidi Star Venture Capital. Although the funding amount may not stand out amid the 2026 funding fren...
Lumos Robotics has announced that its NexCore platform can significantly reduce the time required to develop new skills for robots, from weeks to just days. This innovation targets the engineering processes that contribute to high costs in deploying additional robots in factories. By integrating tas...
The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC 2026) will take place in Beijing from August 19 to 23, focusing on the theme of 'Human-Machine Symbiosis and Integrated Production and Demand.' The event will feature over 300 intelligent enterprises showcasing innovations that drive global robotics industry tren...
The MIT Combat Robotics Club (CRC), founded in 2001 and rebooted in 2023, focuses on building and battling robots, fostering learning through competition. Led by Ryan Duarte, the club's ARES robot competes in the National Havoc Robot League (NHRL) and has undergone significant improvements after pre...
FANUC America is set to expand its involvement in workforce development at the 2026 SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference in Atlanta, scheduled for June 1-5. The company will support industrial robotics competitions, donate equipment, and provide onsite certifications, including a LR Mat...
The logistics sector faces a critical skills gap as the BBC reduces its apprenticeship scheme, highlighting the need for skilled workers in automation and robotics. In England, apprenticeship starts rose by 4.1% in 2024/25, reaching 353,500, with higher-level apprenticeships growing significantly. H...
At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference, NVIDIA is showcasing innovative physical AI agent skills aimed at accelerating the development of autonomous vehicles, robotics, and vision AI systems. This unveiling comes as researchers and developers face significant challenges in...
Researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Duisburg-Essen have unveiled a groundbreaking study that explores the potential of artificial intelligence in enhancing urban planning. This research, published on October 15, 2023, aims to address t...
A collaborative research team from leading universities has introduced the IAIL framework, a groundbreaking system that allows diverse robots to autonomously comprehend and perform tasks without the need for prior programming or human input. This innovative framework emphasizes intention alignment o...
RSF defines a common language for robot service capability, lifecycle operations, certification pathways, and service-provider networks.
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