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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Two stories broke the same week that tell you where AI security actually stands. Wiz, the Google-owned security shop, Calif, and OpenAI's own red team independently found two critical PHP flaws in August using GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's… |
Mecka AI just raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia. NVIDIA, Microsoft M12, Qualcomm, and Samsung also participated, along with angels including Tony Xu, Frank Slootman, and former Tesla Optimus lead Milan Kovac. Total funding now exceeds… |
Physical-world data is the new oil Mecka AI has raised a $60M Series B, led by Sequoia Capital, with NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Microsoft and Samsung among the new investors. It captures human activity in the real world and turns it into training… |
Robotics' biggest bottleneck? Data. Mecka AI is cashing in with human motion data for robots. • $100M annual revenue run rate • $300M projected 2026 revenue • $500M valuation • $68M raised Backers include Sequoia, NVIDIA, Microsoft,… |
Congrats @joshavata and the Mecka team! Data is the bottleneck in physical AI. Robots don't lack intelligence, they lack experience. Great to see Sequoia backing a team that goes out and captures it, through a Global network of fleets!… |
Mecka has raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia. The company's thesis: robots don't lack intelligence, they lack experience. The approach: custom multi-sensor rigs and a global network of capture fleets record people doing physical tasks.… |
🚨 BREAKING: Munich robotics startup @Robco_Robotics has just become a unicorn, crossing a $1 billion valuation in just nine months since its last round. Founded in 2020 by Roman Hölzl, Paul Maroldt and Constantin Dresel, RobCo built its… |
Forty times the price, same category, roughly the same age. Valispace sold to Altium in 2024 for about sixteen million dollars. Flow Engineering just raised its Series B at a $750 million valuation. Someone is betting requirements… |
STEALTH 🥷: 5 founders building in stealth, recently flagged by the stealth discovery pipeline on @frontrunvc: 👇 1. @ianDAOs = Co-founded @IDEOVC · Ex-@CitiVentures Head of Crypto · @BerkeleyHaas MBA. 2. @_mayankkishore = @mirage_ml exit… |
Linkerbot is the leading dexterous robot hand producer valued at $3bn. They own ~80% of market share globally according to their CEO. Clients include industrial firms such as Samsung, Siemens & research institutions such as MIT, Stanford,… |
EARLY: @conceptdotdev - 218 followers (AI) agents that work with humans in the physical world. built with early customers in robotics and semiconductors. flagged on @frontrunvc july 6th. then the people building it got flagged in stealth:… |
🇺🇸🇦🇪 @ElonMusk’s @BoringCompany has raised $3 billion in a Series D round led by the UAE, pushing its valuation to $23 billion, up from $5.68 billion in 2022. The funding will help build more than 150 kilometers of tunnels across the… |
Fifteen years after "software is eating the world," Marc Andreessen's own firm just admitted atoms are eating software's margins. SUMMARY This is not an a16z story. a16z's $1.1B Machine Age Fund is simply the loudest confirmation yet of a… |