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…
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…
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…
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,…
Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M
As demand grows for privacy-first enterprise AI that can run without sending sensitive data to the cloud, SpotDraft has raised $8 million from Qualcomm Ventures…
YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models
A group of YouTubers who are suing tech giants for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to their…
AAA20 Group debuts cobot palletizer for food and protein processing
AAA20 Group’s new CP-66-WD wash-down collaborative palletizer. | Source: AAA20 Group AAA20 Group plans to debut its new CP-66-WD wash-down collaborative palletizer at the International…
AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’
Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger…
State of robotics industry report 2026
Imaged created using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The robotics industry enters 2026 at an inflection point. After years of innovation, bold claims, and headline-grabbing demonstrations, the conversation…