Robot waiters and drone deliveries: Inside China’s futuristic hardware capital – NBC News

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…

Insider Brief XDOF has emerged from stealth with $70 million in funding to build infrastructure for robot foundation models, including datasets, robotic systems and software tools designed to support physical AI development. The company said it works with robotics labs and commercial developers on hardware, operations and model training, focusing on the underlying infrastructure needed…

Vicarious Surgical’s robot requires an incision smaller than a dime. Illustration courtesy of Vicarious Surgical Vicarious Surgical, a Waltham-based robotic surgery company once touted as a rising force in medical technology, is shutting down. The company announced at a July 21 shareholder meeting that it will wind down the business after efforts to secure additional…

Chinese Exports Shift to AI, Software, Data Center Tech  조선일보

Three years into its longest and most complex war, the IDF is accelerating the deployment of unmanned ground robots across multiple fronts as battlefield threats intensify. As troops encounter more areas saturated with improvised explosive devices and explosive drones, units are requesting faster, more autonomous platforms capable of operating in dense urban terrain, under fire….

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