RobCo, a builder of autonomous industrial robotics, topped a $1 billion valuation in an employee secondary share sale, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. RobCo’s new valuation is double the one it achieved nine months ago, according to the release. At...
Industrial cybersecurity has meant walling off plant networks and watching control systems. Robots that run artificial intelligence models bring their own cameras, sensors, wireless links and update channels, and each is a way in for attackers. The machine, not the network, is now the thing...
Artificial intelligence cloud company Nscale has signed a major, multi-year agreement with humanoid robotics developer Figure. This deal will see Nscale provide computing resources for Figure and commit at least $3.5 billion — and up to $6 billion — to power the development of Figure’s AI models and...
Delivery robots are moving past a simple question. Can they use sidewalks? Cities are now asking sharper ones: how many robots, how fast, and what a company should pay to operate them. Washington Caps New Robot Fleets at 25 Washington, D.C.’s transportation department, the District...
October 07, 2025
Watch more: Digital Shift: GridRaster, Dijam Panigrahi The conversation around robotics often swings between two poles: either a utopian vision of fully autonomous machines or a dystopian fear of human workers being displaced. But as the global push toward more automated, efficient and safe industrial environments accelerates, a third option is emerging. One where machines […]
August 20, 2025
Remember the metaverse? Two decades into the 21st century, Big Tech’s largest firms suddenly decided to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and countless hours of technical resources on building...
June 11, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is turning his attention to the next critical enabler of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution: quantum computing. “There’s an inflection point happening in quantum computing,” Huang...
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. It’s because a dose of healthy competition ultimately benefits...
October 05, 2026
RobCo, a builder of autonomous industrial robotics, topped a $1 billion valuation in an employee secondary share sale, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. RobCo’s new valuation is double the one it achieved nine months ago, according to the release. At that time, the company raised $100 million in a January […]
September 03, 2026
Artificial intelligence cloud company Nscale has signed a major, multi-year agreement with humanoid robotics developer Figure. This deal will see Nscale provide computing resources for Figure and commit at least $3.5 billion —...
August 21, 2026
Dexmal, a Chinese firm developing embodied artificial intelligence to control robots, is seeking a valuation of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a funding round, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. 21)....
July 08, 2026
Mistral introduced its first artificial intelligence model built for “embodied navigation,” or enabling robots to autonomously move through complex environments, according to a Tuesday (July 7) press release. The new...
