Context: MasTec will deploy Gritt's bolt-on robotic attachments on utility-scale solar sites in several US states after live-site tests.
From The Next Web: Infrastructure builder MasTec will deploy Gritt’s AI robotic attachments on its utility-scale solar projects across several US states, after testing them on live sites. It follows a similar deal with Burns & McDonnell in August. No financial terms were disclosed.
With diesel prices up sharply and digital plants speeding up training, the Redmond, Wash., startup is taking on new crops and new customers for its solar-powered weeding robots.
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
GenRobot AI builds equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations used to train robots; the Beijing company raised a $100M Series A+, per TechNode.
Physicl is attacking the sim-to-real gap for robots with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
A simulation-based robot policy that needs no fine-tuning or teleoperation
Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein tells a16z's Martin Casado and Raghu Raghuram that robotics for factories and warehouses is a systems problem spanning AI, hardware, manufacturing and the work itself.
