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Baobab Ventures Debuts $15 Million Fund for AI Projects
Investments // November 26, 2025

Tech investor Carles Reina has launched a fund focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics and defense. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....

The Weekender: Robots, Robots Everywhere (Even at the Litter Box)
artificial intelligence // November 22, 2025

Blame the elves. They saw generative artificial intelligence (AI) coming for their jobs and outsourced Christmas to robots. This holiday season, the digital economy’s strangest edges have gone gloriously mainstream: your drink is mixed by a bot, your window is squeegeed by a suction-climbing square,...

Physical AI Moves from Automation to a New Workforce Layer
artificial intelligence // November 18, 2025

Physical AI is emerging as the next stage of robotics as advances in sensing, perception and large AI models give machines capabilities that traditional automation never supported. Earlier robots followed fixed commands and worked only in predictable environments, struggling with the unpredictability found in everyday...

AI Needs Spatial Intelligence for Next Leap, Experts Say
artificial intelligence // November 12, 2025

Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother of AI,” argues that the current era of artificial intelligence (AI), dominated by large language models and image classifiers, has reached its limits. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Amazon and Walmart Are Rewiring Retail’s Future With Robotics

May 09, 2025
Competition comes best in twos. Think Apple and Microsoft, Coke and Pepsi, McDonald’s and Burger King and many other famous pairings. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing […]

Can Delivery Robots Solve Last-Mile Logistics Issues?

February 03, 2025
Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani envisions autonomous delivery robots transforming urban logistics by optimizing the pickup and delivery of food and other products to lower the cost of last-mile delivery...

Meta Chief AI Scientist Slams Quest for Human-Level Intelligence

January 08, 2025
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on Wednesday (Jan. 8) criticized prevailing definitions of artificial general intelligence (AGI), arguing that continued scaling of text-based large language models alone will not...

Robots and AI Are Rebuilding the Supply Chain From Ground Up

November 19, 2024
Distribution yards, the critical junctions between warehouse facilities and over-the-road (OTR) transportation, have long stood as bottlenecks in supply chain operations. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Quick Reads
SoftBank and Nvidia Consider Joining Funding Round for Robotics Firm Skild AI

December 08, 2025
SoftBank Group and Nvidia are reportedly in talks to participate in a more than $1 billion funding round for Skild AI, a maker of foundation models for robots. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to […]

Baobab Ventures Debuts $15 Million Fund for AI Projects

November 26, 2025
Tech investor Carles Reina has launched a fund focusing on artificial intelligence, robotics and defense. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Uber Acquires Segments.ai to Grow Data Labeling Business

October 02, 2025
Uber has acquired Segments.ai, a multi-sensor labeling platform for robotics and autonomous driving, the two companies said Thursday (Oct. 2) in separate posts on LinkedIn. Get the Full Story Complete...

FieldAI Raises $405 Million for Robotic AI and General-Purpose Robots

August 20, 2025
FieldAI said Wednesday (Aug. 20) that it raised $405 million in two consecutive rounds to accelerate the global adoption of its general-purpose robots. Get the Full Story Complete the form...