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

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Once upon a time, the idea of 3D-printed homes felt like a thing of the future. One of those companies, Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , just raised $40 million in Series B funding for its quest to create homes that it says are “beautiful, sustainable and affordable” using 3D printing, robotics and automation.

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

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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

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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.” The autonomous vehicle space is an exciting emerging market with plenty of opportunity. Aside from an October 2020 announcement, news on that pilot seems to have gone quiet.

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Relativity Space is raising a massive $500M round at $2.3B valuation

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Relativity aims to reduce the cost and increase the speed of assembling a launch vehicle by 3D printing it from tip to tail fin. The switch from a series of machines and assembly lines with fixed tooling to a handful of enormous custom 3D printers both simplifies the building process and enables new capabilities.

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

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Lidar, the light detection and ranging radar that measures distance using laser light to generate a highly accurate 3D map of the world around the car, is considered a critical piece of hardware to deploy automated vehicle technology safely and at scale. Daimler Trucks buys a majority stake in self-driving tech company Torc Robotics.

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

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The investment will be used to accelerate the development and commercialization of GB’s AI and 3D vision-based “autonomous mobile robots” or “AMRs” These perform simple tasks such as transporting, picking up and dropping off products in order to free up humans to perform more valuable tasks. , Nenad Baki?

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

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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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