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The Boston robotics scene got a jolt on Wednesday when a secretive startup founded this year with ties to MIT and automotive giant Toyota revealed it raised $300 million to build a line of AI-powered, partially humanoid machines. Walden Robotics spun out from Toyota Research Institute with work by MIT professor Russ Tedrake on developing…

Insider Brief Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo startup Highlanders signed an MOU to explore humanoid robots for auto manufacturing and possible mass production at Mitsubishi’s Kyoto Plant. Mitsubishi said the companies will study joint development of humanoid robots for its manufacturing facilities while examining whether Highlanders products could be produced at the Kyoto site…

Graduate student Dian Li working with a robotic hand. Credit: Melanie Gonick. By Jennifer Chu The next time you’re scrolling your phone, take a moment to appreciate the feat: The seemingly mundane act is possible thanks to the coordination of 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ligaments in your hand. Indeed, our…

Insider Brief mimic robotics unveiled a full-stack system for industrial dexterous manipulation, combining the mimic hand M1, the mimic wearable U1 and a custom software stack. The M1 is a tendon-driven robotic hand with 15 actuated degrees of freedom and 21 joints, designed to match key human-hand capabilities while using forearm-based actuators for durability and…

Robotics training infrastructure startup XDOF said today it has raised $70 million in funding to try to solve one of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence: teaching machines the skills they need to safely navigate and work in the real world. The round involved a number of heavyweight venture capitalists, including Thrive Capital, Spark Capital,…

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