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Less than a year after announcing an order for 27 electric seaglider planes from REGENT Craft, advanced air mobility (AAM) specialist UrbanLink has nearly doubled that order size to support plans for high-frequency commercial flights around the southeastern United States.

While advanced air mobility may be a nascent industry, companies around the...

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An ABB robot painting a car hood.

PixelPaint is initially being used for the Mercedes-Maybach SL 680 Monogram Series. The obsidian black hood of thisexclusive model is available with a Maybach pattern upon customer request. | Source: ABB Robotics

Mercedes-Benz AG has deployed ABB Robotics& PixelPaint technology at its Sindelfingen plant in Germany. The system complements the...

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DeepSeek-V3 New Paper is coming! Unveiling the Secrets of Low-Cost Large Model Training through Hardware-Aware Co-design

A newly released 14-page technical paper from the team behind DeepSeek-V3, with DeepSeek CEO Wenfeng Liang as a co-author, sheds light on the “Scaling Challenges and Reflections on Hardware for AI Architectures.” This follow-up to their initial technical report delves into the intricate relationship between large language model (LLM) development, t...

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DJI has officially unveiled its most advanced consumer drone yet — the Mavic 4 Pro — and it’s already soaring to new heights with a feature-rich firmware update released on launch day. While US buyers may be grounded due to trade restrictions, drone enthusiasts worldwide can now unlock a suite of powerful tools designed to enhance aerial cre...

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MIT engineers create elder assist robot E-BAR to prevent falls at home

Six assistance scenarios with a prototype of a robot being developed at MIT. Top row: getting in and out of a bathtub, bending down to reach objects, and catching a fall. Bottom row: powered sit-to-stand transition from a toilet, lifting a person from the floor, and walking assistance. | Image courtesy of the MIT researchers

A group of MIT...

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Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring.

But it’s now placed three new ads on YC’s job board for “AI agents only” and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it happen.

Within about a week after the new job posts went...

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DJI has rolled out version 1.17.0 of its Fly app, introducing support for the highly anticipated Mavic 4 Pro drone and enabling cloud-based waypoint flight storage. However, US drone enthusiasts might find themselves grounded, as the Mavic 4 Pro isn’t officially available stateside, yet.

DJI Fly app version 1.17.0: What’s newThe latest Fly app...

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DETROIT —-- With more than 40,000 participants and 800 exhibitors, Automate 2025 this week was a prime place to see and find out about the latest industrial automation.With the event came an avalanche of announcements about new items, collaborations, and applications. Here are some of the current making it possible for technologies for production and logistics ...

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AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research.

Sully Omar, one of the founders of Ottogrid, announced the deal Friday in a post on X. He didn’t disclose the terms.

Ottogrid will sunset its product, according to Omar, but will give...

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The DJI Mavic 4 Pro has officially landed in Europe, boasting the coveted C2 certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). This certification not only underscores the drone’s advanced capabilities but also opens up new possibilities for drone enthusiasts and professionals across the EU.

What makes the Mavic 4 Pro drone stand...

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Soon-to-be CEO Dave Rosa.

Soon-to-be CEO Dave Rosa. | Source: Intuitive

Intuitive Surgical announced today that it promoted President Dave Rosa to the position of CEO, effective July 1, 2025.

Upon Rosa&s appointment, current CEO Gary Guthart intends to become the executive chair of Intuitive&s board of directors. With that appointment, Craig Barratt, the...

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The Nuclear Company is taking an old approach to building new nuclear reactors. Rather than gin up a new design or try to mass manufacture smaller reactors, it wants to develop a series of reactors using existing designs.

The two-year-old startup announced a Series A last month led by Eclipse with participation from CIV, Goldcrest Capital, MCJ...

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DJI just dropped its most advanced drone yet — the Mavic 4 Pro — and let’s be real, it’s a beast. It crushes the already impressive Mavic 3 Pro in nearly every department: from camera upgrades and obstacle sensing to flight time and video transmission. But there’s one major catch: you can’t buy it in the US.

Thanks to trade tensions and Trump-era...

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A lot full of Waymo self driving vehicles.

Waymo is going on a 10-city road trip across the U.S., including cities like Boston, Dallas, Las Vegas, and Nashville. | Source: Waymo

Waymo recalled 1,212 robotaxis to address risks of collisions with chains, gates, and other roadway barriers. The company said it resolved the underlying software issue through a November 2024 update that reduced...

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Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million in new funding, the company has raised more, according to a filing with the SEC.

The filing, submitted Thursday, reveals that Moonvalley actually landed (so far) around $53 million total from a group of 14 unnamed...

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DJI announces today the unveiling of its new flagship camera drone, the Mavic 4 Pro. While its 6K/60 primary Micro 4/3 camera, 360-degree rotating gimbal, and nearly hour-long flight time would all be newsworthy headlines, DJI’s decision to not bring the Mavic 4 Pro to the U.S. is the biggest story today.

Update:Some U.S....

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Former UR president Povlsen joins quantum technology leader

Former Universal Robots president Kim Povlsen was named CEO of quantum technology leader Bluefors. | Credit: Universal Robots

Kim Povlsen, the former president of Universal Robots, yesterday was named the CEO of Bluefors. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Bluefors is a leading developer of cryogenic measurement systems, cryocoolers and other cryogenic...

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A Technology NewsRoom is signing up with forces with VivaTech, Europe's biggest startup and tech event, to pick startups for the prominent VivaTech Innovation of the Year at VivaTech 2025. This collaboration will highlight extraordinary imagination, technological resourcefulness, and industry-transforming capacity amongst displaying startups.The VivaTech ...

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GR00T-Dreams blueprint generates data to train humanoid robot reasoning and behavior.

The GR00T-Dreams blueprint generates data to train humanoid robot reasoning and behavior. Source: NVIDIA

At Computex today in Taipei, Taiwan, NVIDIA Corp. announced Isaac GR00T N1.5, the first update to its open, generalized, customizable foundation model for humanoid robot reasoning and skills. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also unveiled...

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The 2025 RoboBusiness Pitchfire Startup Competition is officially open for applications. RoboBusiness, which happens Oct. 15-16 in Santa Clara, Calif., is the premier occasion for commercial robotics developers.Attendees will gain the current insights from professionals in robotics and AI on advanced research, industry patterns, and emerging ...

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Databricks just snatched up another AI company.

This week, the data analytics giant announced a $1 billion acquisition of Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres. It’s the latest in a spree of high-profile buys, joining MosaicML and Tabular, as Databricks positions itself as the place to build, deploy, and scale...

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NVIDIA accepts Ekso Bionics into its Connect program

Ekso&s exoskeletons range from systems that help people with limited mobility to those reducing worker injuries in industrial settings. | Source: Ekso Bionics

Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc., a developer of exoskeleton technology for medical and industrial use, last week announced its acceptance into the NVIDIA Connect program. The company said it...

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DHL Group, a global leader in logistics, is expanding its already strong relationship with Boston Dynamics. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), DHL plans to deploy 1,000+ additional Stretch robots from Boston Dynamics by 2030. The companies are also looking to expand the types of applications Stretch is used for, beyond container...

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The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” 

His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank went viral.

While he never worked for X, he is actually very much a techy....

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RealMan displays embodied robotics at Automate 2025

RealMan Robotics offers a variety of mobile manipulators. Source: RealMan

DETROIT — RealMan Intelligent Technology Co. this week showed off at Automate 2025 its latest lineup of lightweight robotic arms, dual-arm platforms, and self-developed joint modules tailored for industrial automation, precision manufacturing, and human-robot...

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Agility's Digit humanoid working in a GXO facility.

Agility Robotics, a leading developer of humanoid robots, has deployed its Digit robot with GXO. | Source: Agility Robotics

The nascent humanoid robots market offers a large opportunity, but uptake will be low in the short and medium-term, according to a new report from Interact Analysis. Despite the hype about humanoid robots and significant...

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When Max Cohen and Cameron Behar set out to launch a startup together during the pandemic, they decided to focus on the most top-of-mind sector of the era: healthcare.

But since neither Cohen nor Behar had a background in healthcare (both worked at Google and Facebook previously), they had to think long and hard about how to contribute to a sector...

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Persona AI raises $27M to develop humanoid robots for shipyards

Concept renders showing different jobs for Persona AI&s humanoids. | Source: Persona AI

Persona AI Inc., a humanoid robot and embodied artificial intelligence developer, this week said it has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, raising $27 million. The Houston-based company plans to use the investment to accelerate development...

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The Star Wars licensed G1T4-M1N1 droid.

The Star Wars licensed G1T4-M1N1 droid. Source: Piaggio Fast Forward

&May the Fourth be with you& is a well-known phrase to Star Wars fans. This May 4, Piaggio Fast Forward, or PFF, released a special edition of its gitamini robot, dubbed G1T4-M1N1. The cargo-carrying droid is the result of a collaboration between PFF&s...

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Invite to Startups Weekly-- your weekly wrap-up of everything you can't miss from the world of start-ups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here.Startup news today was relatively regular-- in a great way: Aside from a minor kerfuffle between Y Combinator and Google, there was no headline-grabbing drama. Just constant progress and organization as u.

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