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.
From The Information: Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units — Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version …
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
MasTec will deploy Gritt's bolt-on robotic attachments on utility-scale solar sites in several US states after live-site tests.
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.