Industrial automation startup Path Robotics raises $300M in funding (opens siliconangle.com)
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
Context: Maxinsights has nearly 4,000 collectors wearing cameras to record everyday actions and turns the footage into robot training data; its founder says the company holds about 2 million hours of first-person data and ARR is around $250M.
From 硅谷101: 当机器人公司们还在探索模型、算法、数据和部署的时候,一家并不生产机器人的硅谷公司,把机器人数据做成了一门年化收入数亿美元的生意。 这笔生意,给硅谷具身数据公司Maxinsights带来了一年250倍的增长:它组织全球近4000名采集人员戴上摄像头,记录日常操作,再通过数据管线加工成机器人训练数据。据创始人袁宇光介绍,公司已积累约200万小时的人类第一视角数据,ARR(年化经常性收入)可达约2.5亿美元。 但拍下视频,只是数据生产的开始。手被挡住时,动作能否被准确追踪?设备戴歪了,怎样及时发现?从动作追踪、语言标注到质量检验,一段日常视频要经过复杂处理,才能成为模型的“教材”。这套生产流程…
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
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