Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time aro…

The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise

The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.

Robotics has a data problem. Macrodata Labs wants to solve it

The AI industry has spent the past several years learning a critical lesson: better data often matters as much as better models. While advances in large language models have been powered by increasing…

Backed by Lakestar, Seedcamp and EWOR, SE3 unveils spatial AI platform for autonomous systems

Spatial AI company SE3 Labs today emerges from stealth. SE3 builds foundational spatial intelligence technology for the next generation of autonomous systems. As autonomous systems operate in increas…

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

ARX Robotics and Roboneers form ARX Industries to scale unmanned ground vehicle production
ARX Robotics and Roboneers form ARX Industries to scale unmanned ground vehicle production

German company ARX Robotics and Ukraine’s Roboneers today announced the formation of ARX Industries, a joint venture to industrialise the mass production of unmanned ground vehicles. The new entity wi…

Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal

Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds.

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.