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Palmer Luckey says the coolest thing about Anduril expanding to Long Beach is the fighter jets

Anduril on Thursday announced its plans to expand its Southern California presence with a major campus in Long Beach, the town where founder Palmer Luckey grew up.

Your robot could obey a sign, not you, thanks to AI robot prompt injection

AI robot prompt injection is no longer just a screen-level problem. Researchers demonstrate that a robot can be steered off-task by text placed in the physical world, the kind of message a human might walk past without a second thought. The attack does…

ABZ Innovation lands €7M to scale autonomous heavy-lift drones

Drone manufacturer ABZ Innovation has closed a €7million funding round led by Vsquared Ventures, with participation from Day One Capital and Assembly Ventures.The Europe-based company develops heavy-d…

Why Serve Robotics is acquiring a hospital assistant robot company

Diligent Robotics is a startup that builds robots designed to assist in hospitals by delivering lab samples, supplies, and other tasks. The deal values Diligent’s common stock at $29 million.

NEOintralogistics secures €3M to democratise warehouse automation through RaaS

German robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) providerNEOintralogistics has closed a €3 million seed funding round, led by theAmadeus APEX Technology Fund with participation from Cetus Holding.The need for acce…

How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES

Now, the startup is turning its attention to building the business, fundraising and striking commercial deals.

Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane 

Oshen has signed contracts with multiple government agencies for its C-Star robots to collect ocean data autonomously.

Video Friday: Bipedal Robot Stops Itself From Falling
Video Friday: Bipedal Robot Stops Itself From Falling

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 20…

Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.