News / Robotics
Atlas Robotics raises $220m to put humanoids on the line
The Austin firm's Series C values it at $2.1bn as paid pilots with three Fortune 500 operators move from proof-of-concept to production deployment.
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Robotics
Industrial arms, mobile robots, humanoids and the software platforms turning robots from tools into workers.
News / Energy
US utilities trial live-line maintenance robots on transmission network
Robotic systems that service energised high-voltage lines promise to cut outage windows — and keep lineworkers out of the most dangerous job in the grid.
Intelligence / Robotics
Industry intelligence: what humanoid pilots actually cost
Autonomous Systems gathered deployment data from eleven warehouse humanoid pilots. The headline: uptime is improving fast, but integration costs still dwarf the robot itself.
News / Robotics
Video: inside the facility where humanoids learn by watching
Our cameras follow an Atlas A2 through a full imitation-learning cycle — from human demonstration to autonomous execution in under four hours.
Analysis / AI
The edge inference chip wars reach the factory floor
A new generation of neural processors is being designed for robots rather than phones. We map the contenders fighting to become the default brain of industrial autonomy.
Feature / Maritime
The robots beneath the turbines: underwater autonomy finds its market offshore
Resident underwater vehicles that live on the seabed are replacing dive crews and survey ships across offshore wind farms — and the operating model is spreading to oil, gas and telecoms.
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