Agility Robotics on Thursday confirmed that it has laid off a “small number” of employees. The well-funded Oregon-based firm says the job loss is part of a company-wide […]
Figure rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation and OpenAI/Microsoft partnerships
Today Figure confirmed long-standing rumors that it’s raising more money than God. The Bay Area–based robotics firm has announced a $675 million Series B on a $2.6 billion […]
Flexport taps Shopify for cash, behind the wheel of the Kia EV9 and where Amazon wants to invest
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Amazon eyes AI, autonomous vehicles and Asia as $1B industrial innovation fund evolves
Amazon has spent nearly two years putting an undisclosed portion of its $1 billion industrial innovation fund to work with investments in nearly a dozen U.S. and Israeli […]
Rightbot, which is developing robots to unload freight, lands investment from Amazon
Rightbot, a startup developing suction-based robots that can unload truck-transported freight in a range of sizes, has raised $6.25 million in a funding round led by Amazon’s Industrial […]