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‘Burning through cash,’ Boston Dynamics lays off 45 employees. The layoffs represent five percent of the total workforce at the Waltham-based robotics firm.
https://www.boston.com/news/business/2024/12/16/burning-through-cash-boston-dynamics-lays-off-45-employees/
Colin Angle, one of the co-founders of Roomba maker iRobot, is raising cash for a home robotics venture. A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that Angle’s new company, Familiar Machines & Magic, is trying to raise $30 million. So far, it has raised $15 million from a group of eight investors.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/irobot-co-founders-new-home-robot-startup-hopes-to-raise-30m/
For more than a century, truck trailers have been loaded and unloaded in the same way, leading to wasted time for drivers and dangerous bursts of activity for forklift operators. Slip Robotics today said it has raised Series B funding of $28 million as it offers to automate and accelerate truck loading and unloading with its SlipBots.
Slip Robotics picks up $28M for trailer loading/unloading robots
Multifunctional service robots could be the next new area in which Taiwan could play a significant role, given its strengths in chip manufacturing and software design, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co chairman and chief executive C.C. Wei said yesterday.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/12/17/2003828622
BYD recently announced a new recruitment initiative, drawing widespread attention to its focus on the burgeoning field of embodied intelligence. According to a post on the WeChat account "BYD Recruitment", the company is seeking master’s and doctoral graduates from universities worldwide to join its Embodied Intelligence Research Team.
https://autonews.gasgoo.com/m/70035421.html
China: Humanoid robot-run car factory to be built by FAW-Volkswagen, UBTech. The collaboration aims to enhance factory intelligence and automation by investing in developing and refining humanoid robots for industrial applications.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robot-run-car-factory-china
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