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Robotics

AI news tagged Robotics, with sources.

• Oct. 8, 20264 sources

  Mecka, which pays people to wear body sensors and record their daily movements to sell data for humanoid robots, raised $60 million led by Sequoia

  Mecka, which pays people to record everyday tasks with body sensors and supplies the motion data to robot makers, raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia.

• Oct. 6, 20262 sources

  Figure taught its retired robots to jump into a furnace of molten steel on their own

  Figure melted its old F.02 robots in a 75-ton electric arc furnace in Finland. The robots leapt in using their own AI models; the idea came from Schwarzenegger.

• Oct. 5, 20261 source

  By Anthropic’s count, robots can technically perform about three-quarters of the physical tasks in US jobs

  Anthropic’s September 30 report finds robots can perform 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive with people for just 0.3% of job tasks.

• Sept. 28, 20262 sources

  Uranus: a next-generation simulation environment for robots

  Uranus is a data-driven robot simulator built on a joint-trajectory-conditioned autoregressive diffusion model, running at 24 frames per second.

• Sept. 28, 20262 sources

  Boston Dynamics opened a center that teaches Atlas robots to work in a Hyundai plant

  Boston Dynamics’ Robotics Metaplant Application Center opened on September 21 at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia to train Atlas robots.

• Sept. 27, 20262 sources

  Tekever, whose drones have flown over 50,000 hours in Ukraine, reached a $6.4 billion valuation

  Drone maker Tekever raised $580 million in a round led by University of California Investments and Baillie Gifford, reaching a $6.4 billion valuation.