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Robotics company building a general-purpose robot called Eno; its president says hardware is the industry's missing piece.
Nvidia expects to unveil $2 billion of European AI deals within a week, on top of $8 billion over the past year, Jensen Huang said in Paris. The four Paris stakes came without disclosed terms, so the $10 billion cannot be sorted into equity and other money.
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A $200M extension prices the robot foundation model startup at $3B, led by an investor already on the cap table. The field evidence is a company claim about three-second demos.
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Team REX pairs Samsung SDS with five hardware makers, three model developers and two data firms, and Samsung SDS says it went to a Chinese supplier for robotic hands because nobody else can match China.
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Unitree's $66 billion valuation lost nearly half its value in a week, and robot brains still lack the data to justify the hype.
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Actuate went from 250 attendees in 2024 to 1,500 this year and could have sold 2,000. Almost none of them brought a working robot, which tells you where the bottleneck sits.
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