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Mighty Buildings nabs $40M Series B to 3D print your next house

TechCrunch

Once upon a time, the idea of 3D-printed homes felt like a thing of the future. But as housing gets less and less affordable — especially in ultra-expensive markets such as the Bay Area — companies are getting creative in their quest to build more affordable homes using technology.

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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

TechCrunch

The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way.

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Local Motors, the startup behind the Olli autonomous shuttle, has shut down

TechCrunch

Experiencing first-hand the skill and dedication of the people I worked with, I have no doubt AVs (like Olli) are the future of transportation.” “As with most adventures, they must come to an end,” wrote Jeff Hollowell, former VP of information technology at Local Motors. “Local Motors has closed its doors.

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Daimler invests in lidar company Luminar in push to bring autonomous trucks to highways

TechCrunch

The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, is the latest action by the German manufacturer to move away from robotaxis and shared mobility and instead focus on how automated vehicle technology can be applied to freight.

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Croatia’s Gideon Brothers raises $31M for its 3D vision-enabled autonomous warehouse robots

TechCrunch

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Nenad Baki? and Luca Ascani.

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Relativity Space launches its valuation to $4.2B with $650M in new funding

TechCrunch

3D-printed rocket startup Relativity Space has raised a $650 million Series E, bringing its total raised to over $1.2 Relativity CEO Tim Ellis in an interview with TechCrunch likened 3D printing to a paradigm shift in manufacturing. “I Relativity’s post-money valuation now stands at $4.2 Image Credits: Relativity.

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Diamond Age picks up $50M to lay the foundation for the future of houses built by robots

TechCrunch

The company has now developed 26 end-of-arm robotic tools, on top of a 3D printing system that can print concrete for exterior, interior and roof structures. In particular, the investor gets excited about startups re-inventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation and agtech. housing market.

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