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Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics /

Robomart, a startup that builds self-driving delivery robots, is unveiling its latest robot with an ambitious goal of using it to make on-demand delivery profitable. The Los Angeles-based company announced its patented Robomart RM5 on Monday. The level-four autonomous vehicle can carry up to 500 pounds and is made up of 10 individual lockers that

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YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

Artificial Intelligence, Media & Entertainment /

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, which are playlists that combine multiple users’ overlapping interests, similar to Spotify Blend. The app will also start notifying users

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FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics /

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially robot brains designed to help everything from humanoids to quadrupeds to self-driving cars adapt to new environments. The company announced the funding Wednesday; the most recent round raised $314

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Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

Artificial Intelligence, Startups /

Image Credits:Eric Slomonson, The Photo Group 10:07 AM PDT · August 19, 2025 TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 lands in San Francisco from October 27-29, and the Expo Hall is already packed with early adopters, startup scouts, and enterprise buyers looking to discover what’s next. If you’re not there to show off your product, your competitors will

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AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

Artificial Intelligence, Startups /

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A.  He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco’s South Park (a favorite VC haunt). While describing the future of the company, he was gesturing so

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AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025

Apps, Artificial Intelligence /

Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in 2025 so far, according to new data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firm Appfigures. This subsection of the AI market on mobile has now

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How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company

How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics /

When Bill Dally joined Nvidia’s research lab in 2009, it employed only about a dozen people and was focused on ray tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. That once-small research lab now employs more than 400 people, who have helped transform Nvidia from a video game GPU startup in the nineties to a

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Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics /

Image Credits:Justin Sullivan / Getty Images 8:00 AM PDT · August 11, 2025 Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots. Also joining the existing batch

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