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The newest Roomba gets smarter as it vacuums [TechCrunch]

September 9, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

The Roomba is easily among the most ubiquitous robots in the world — but it has never been one of

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Agility Robotics’ Digit gets a warehouse gig [TechCrunch]

September 1, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

A new video from Agility Robotics showcases an increasing familiar sight: advanced, autonomous robots performing boring warehouse tasks. It’s not

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Coral Capital closes third fund with $128M for startups in Japan [TechCrunch]

August 31, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

Coral Capital, a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising

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Rugged showcases its layout-printing construction robots [TechCrunch]

August 30, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

Few robotics categories are poised to benefit more from the events of the past year than construction. It’s a booming

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Salad chain Sweetgreen buys kitchen robotics startup Spyce [TechCrunch]

August 25, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. After

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The Nuro EC-1 [TechCrunch]

August 16, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as

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Starship Technologies is bringing food delivery robots to four more US college campuses this year [TechCrunch]

August 11, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery services company, announced that it will begin delivery service on four additional college campuses this

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John Deere buys autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics [TechCrunch]

August 5, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

In the world of robotic startups, acquisition is often as good an outcome as any. And when it comes to

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Embodied AI, superintelligence and the master algorithm [TechCrunch]

August 3, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

In the next year and a half, we’re going to see increasing adoption of technologies which will trigger a broader

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Cassie the bipedal robot runs a 5K [TechCrunch]

July 28, 2021 Thomas Giboney technology

You may well recognize Cassie as the basis of Agility Robotics’ delivery bot, Digit. If you’ve been following the tech’s

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