An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores
Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. He found the engineering magnificent and the point of it thin. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the largest seed round a German company has secured. Hummingbird led, with Northzone, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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Meta is reportedly working on humanoid robots that help with chores
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Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.
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Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Kho [...]
The robots we saw at CES 2026: The lovable, the creepy and the utterly confusing
CES always has its share of attention-grabbing robots. But this year in particular seemed to be a landmark year for robotics. The advancement in AI technology has not only given robots better “brain [...]
Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round
America’s hospitals are spending around $97bn a year renting staff they cannot train fast enough. Stepful thinks AI can fix the supply side, and investors have just handed it $55mn to try. The New Y [...]
Nvidia releases DreamDojo, a robot ‘world model’ trained on 44,000 hours of human video
A team of researchers led by Nvidia has released DreamDojo, a new AI system designed to teach robots how to interact with the physical world by watching tens of thousands of hours of human video — a [...]