Travis Kalanick’s Robotics Startup Atoms Raises $1.7B In Funding Led By Andreessen Horowitz

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The Vicarious Surgical board of directors wants to close the struggling surgical robotics developer as soon as next week. The board is asking shareholders to approve their plan to dissolve and liquidate the business at a special meeting scheduled for July 21, but said it can not predict how much (if anything) investors would recover…

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The assembly line task setup. Credit: 2026 LASA EPFL CC-BY-SA. By Celia Luterbacher In today’s manufacturing environments, upgrading a robot fleet often means starting from scratch – not only replacing hardware, but also reprogramming tasks. Even when two robots are built to perform similar jobs, different joint arrangements or movement limits mean that a task…

Beijing-based embodied-AI startup Anyverse Dynamics has raised more than $200 million in an angel round, bringing its total fundraising in the first half of the year to several hundred million dollars. The capital injection underscores a funding surge in China’s robotics industry, as startups race to build war chests for compute-intensive AI model training and…

Humanoid, an AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, today announced a €133 million ($152 million) Series A financing at a €1.1 billion ($1.35 billion) post-money valuation – cementing its position as Europe’s newest unicorn. This funding brings the total amount raised to date to €236 million ($270 million). The round was led by…