XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

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The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they’re all Chinese automakers.

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck

Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.

Motion lands $2M to expand humanoid robot deployments across Europe

Brussels-basedrobotics company Motion has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand itsHumanoids-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform and move its existing industrial pilotsinto commercial deployment. T…

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and…