Robotiq brings sense of touch to physical AI with fingertips for 2F grippers
Rending of the TSF-85 tactile sensor fingertips on the 24-85 Adaptive Gripper. Source: Robotiq Robotic end effectors do not need to be humanoid to be…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use
Help desk automation is a billion-dollar industry, and one of the most likely to be disrupted by tech built upon AI. Major players like Zendesk,…
Airtable jumps into the AI agent game with Superagent
It might sound crazy to some, launching an entirely new product line while your flagship business has shed two-thirds of its paper value. But Howie…
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’
Phia’s team is locked in — literally. The startup is laser-focused on building an AI shopping agent, but also, after a snowstorm barreled through New…
China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent
China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequioa China), today released a new open-source model, Kimi K2.5, which…
Big robot on campus: Starship finds 97% student approval rating
Students have rapidly accepted delivery robots on campus. Source: Jessica Foster, Starship Technologies While it may not be surprising that Generation Z is open to…
Multiply Labs partners with AstraZeneca to automate cell therapy manufacturing
Multiply Labs said its modular approach to cell therapy automation reduces manufacturing bottlenecks. | Source: Multiply Labs Multiply Labs Inc. today announced an agreement with…
Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures
Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone. The startup has…
Vention raises $110M to accelerate physical AI deployments in manufacturing
Vention is developing physical AI to unify and accelerate deployment of robotic workcells. Source: Vention Physical AI, the union of artificial intelligence and robotics, is…
‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok over child safety failures
A new risk assessment has found that xAI’s chatbot Grok has inadequate identification of users under 18, weak safety guardrails, and frequently generates sexual, violent,…