Two Sigma Ventures led the financing event, putting in $10 million, with prior investors completing the round.
Japan’s B2B ordering and supply platform CADDi raises $73 million Series B funding
With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply […]
Tesla Bot is the company’s troubled Autopilot system in humanoid form
CEO Elon Musk says prototype should be ready “sometime next year.”
UIPath CEO Daniel Dines is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to talk RPA and automation
UIPath came seemingly out of nowhere in the last several years, going public last year in a successful IPO during which it raised over $527 million. It raised $2 billion in private money prior to that with its final private valuation coming in at an amazing $35 billion. UIPath CEO Daniel Dines will be joining […]
The Nuro EC-1
Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on wheels” — and let it ferry me around a course in Mountain View.
How Google’s self-driving car project accidentally spawned its robotic delivery rival
Nuro doesn’t have a typical Silicon Valley origin story. It didn’t emerge after a long, slow slog from a suburban garage or through a flash of insight in a university laboratory.
Why regulators love Nuro’s self-driving delivery vehicles
Nuro’s autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. There’s no room in the narrow chassis for a driver’s seat, no need for a steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedals.
When robots screw up, how can they regain human trust?
New study shows tactics robots can use to redeem themselves in the workplace.
Salesforce steps into RPA buying Servicetrace and teaming it with Mulesoft
Over the last couple of years, robotic process automation or RPA has been red hot with tons of investor activity and M&A from companies like SAP, IBM and ServiceNow. UIPath had a major IPO in April and has a market cap over $30 billion. I wondered when Salesforce would get involved and today the company […]
コロナ禍を経て人手不足の米国、飲食店の給仕ロボットが示す「人間の仕事」の価値
新型コロナウイルスの感染が落ち着きつつある米国ではビジネスが活気を取り戻す一方で、特に飲食店が深刻な人手不足に陥っている。こうしたなか、あるレストランは給仕スタッフとして配膳ロボットを“採用”した。その仕事ぶりからは、ロボットと人間の仕事仲間としての関係性の未来と、人間が仕事をすることの価値が改めて浮き彫りになってくる。
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