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In over four years of supervised pilot hauls, the Aurora Driver has delivered over 10,000 customer loads across three million autonomous miles, the company said. | Source: Aurora

Aurora Innovation Inc. last week launched a commercial self-driving trucking service in Texas. The deployment will provide autonomous freight transportation between Dallas...

In 2017, Raghav Gupta set out to solve a personal problem: He wanted easy access to the home-cooked meals he grew up eating without having to spend time cooking or spend money on takeout or hiring a private chef. He turned to robotics, which led him to found the startup Posha.

Posha, a former A Technology NewsRoom Startup Battlefield company,...

Iggy Rob is a humanoid robot intended to cost less than $54,000 U.S. Source: igus

As market analysts predict that up to 20 million humanoid robots could be deployed in industrial settings by 2030, igus GmbH last week unveiled its first humanoid, Iggy Rob. The motion plastics specialist said it designed the robot to support industrial production,...

Employer.com has acquired MainStreet.com for an undisclosed amount, the latest fintech startup to get snapped up by the workforce management company.

In a post on X, Employer.com chairman and co-founder Jesse Tinsley said the two companies were “merging forces to simplify business back office solutions into one powerhouse platform.” Tinsley con...

HEBI&s inchworm-style robot offer a modular platform for developers. Source: HEBI Robotics

HEBI Robotics has been recognized with another RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for its &inchworm& family of robots. The robots have feet that use suction, magnets, or other types of grippers to traverse challenging environments end over end.

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Recraft, the startup behind a mysterious image model that beat OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on a respected industry benchmark last year, has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Accel, it exclusively told A Technology NewsRoom. 

Other investors in the round include Khosla Ventures and Madrona. Based in San Francisco, Recraft previously...

Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar, who left in 2023, has a new data startup called WisdomAI. The company offers AI data analytics that can deliver business insights with structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors.

Working with data where and how it is, that’s essentially the holy grail for enterprise...

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. 

However, the recent...

As “vibe coding” gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools, a platform that scans for vulnerabilities in AI-generated code has raised a fresh round of funding.

Ox Security, which models risk across both AI- and human-produced code, on Wednesday announced that it closed a $60 million Series B....

General Fusion laid off at least 25% of its employees last week, just days after hitting a key milestone for its latest fusion demonstration device.

CEO Greg Twinney posted an open letter on the company’s website Monday saying that while its new LM26 device had been able to compress a plasma — something necessary for fusion conditions — General...

Rork founders Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan are living a life that sounds like a movie plot — but it actually happened. 

They went from broke, with depleted life savings and $15,000 in credit card debt — Dhawan was even sleeping on a mattress at a friend’s apartment — to generating $100,000 of revenue within five days.  

And that led to a $2.8...

Every year, donors contribute billions of dollars to charities, yet the donation process still feels outdated and cumbersome. Founders Dan Eblagon and Ron Levy believe there is an easier way to donate, leading to the creation of Bono, a platform designed to facilitate a more modern and streamlined approach to giving. 

The platform (named after the...

In Episode 194 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman recap the 2025 Robotics Summit and Expo from the show floor. We also catch up on the showfloor with some friends of the show, including Amos Miller, Aaron Prather and Samantha Johnson.

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NewLimit, a startup that aims to increase how long people can live a healthy life by genetically programming their cells, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins.

New investors Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Khosla Ventures also invested, as did returning backers Founders Fund, Dimension Capital, Elad Gil, Garry Tan, Patrick...

Datadog is on an acquisition spree. Just a few weeks after snatching up Metaplane, an AI-powered observability startup, the cloud monitoring and security company has acquiredEppo, a feature-flagging and experimentation platform.

Eppo will continue supporting existing customers and bringing on new ones under the brand “Eppo by Datadog.” Terms of the...

Agree.com says its AI-powered e-signature platform is different from competitors because it includes invoicing and payment processing. That’s why the company might have a shot at tackling the industry Goliath, Docusign. 

Because the startup makes its money from transaction fees for any money movement facilitated by its platform, Agree.com has made...

While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find developer talent — especially for post-training AI models.

Revelo, a full-stack platform of vetted developers in Latin America, is seeing a new surge in...

Individuals may work closely with AI agents as they become increasingly prevalent in the workplace. According to a report by Boston Consulting Group, the market for AI agents is expected to grow at a 45% compound annual growth rate over the next five years.

Just like human employees, AI agents could be onboarded to learn various roles, access...