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Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

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“Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. . “Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. ” Of course it’s not like these companies with big money are just buying stuff off the shelf. It’s just raised $3.2

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

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The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

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Hyundai invests in teleoperations startup Ottopia as part of $9M round

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Ottopia’s software is combined with off-the-shelf hardware components like monitors and cameras to create a teleoperations center. It was a technology that he soon recognized would need what every other mission-critical system requires: humans. . Existing investors MizMaa and Israeli firm NextGear also participated.

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Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm

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It’s no surprise, of course. It’s an important area, of course, but anyone entering the category these days would be well served examining other elements of the space. Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. Logistics and automation go hand in hand these days. Third is Pickle, a newcomer to the space.

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Extra Crunch roundup: cohort analysis, YC Demo Day recaps, building your supply chain

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To compete with retail banks, many newcomers are offering customers credit and debit cards ; developer-friendly APIs make issuance relatively easy, and tools for managing processes like KYC are available off the shelf. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Anu Muralidharan, COO, Expensify.

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EdgeQ raises $51 million to fuse AI compute and 5G within a single chip

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One way to get all these technologies into single devices is just to agglomerate a bunch of off-the-shelf silicon chips and jam them into a product. Rather, it’s a combination of technologies that are predicted to become critical for the future of the internet of things across industries as diverse as shipping and security.

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Human toddlers are inspiring new approaches to robot learning

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Last month, Google’s DeepMind robotics team showed off its own impressive work, in the form of RT-2 (Robotic Transformer 2). It’s also designed to be used with readily available, off-the-shelf robotics hardware, meaning researchers and companies alike can both utilize and build out a growing trove of robot data and skills.