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Physical AI startup Mowito raises $3 million in pre-seed funding round | Company News
Physical artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mowito, which is building foundation models for industrial robot arms, on Tuesday said it has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Version One Ventures. The round also saw participation from All In Capital, Unisol, iSeed, and angel investors including Soumith Chintala (Thinking Machines…
Your reference image is doing more damage to your I2V output than your prompt
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IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda
Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics, writing more than 2,000 research papers and authoring several books on the field. He’s an influential figure thanks to his pioneering work developing biomedical robotic systems, industrial robots, micro-nano robotics, mechatronics,…
Videos: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation, Home Robots, More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026,…
