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Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…

Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing critical infrastructure startup over $1 billion
Gecko Robotics, which uses robots and AI to inspect and monitor critical infrastructure, has raised a $125 million, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion.

from my link log —
ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
saved 2025-01-16

GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
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Trotzdem beliebt: Waymo-Robotaxis sind teurer, kommen später als die Konkurrenz
Die autonomen Taxis von Waymo sorgen zumindest bislang nicht für einen Preisverfall bei Taxifahrten in Los Angeles. Laut einer Studie sind sie merklich teurer.

Integrating Quantized LLMs into Robotics Systems as Edge AI to Leverage their Natural Language Processing Capabilities
Miguel \'A. Gonz\'alez-Santamarta, Francisco J. Rodr\'iguez-Lera, David Sobr\'in-Hidalgo, \'Angel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras, Vicente Matell\'An-Olivera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09581

Integrating Quantized LLMs into Robotics Systems as Edge AI to Leverage their Natural Language Processing Capabilities
Large Language Models (LLMs) have experienced great advancements in the last year resulting in an increase of these models in several fields to face natural language tasks. The integration of these models in robotics can also help to improve several aspects such as human-robot interaction, navigation, planning and decision-making. Therefore, this paper introduces llama\_ros, a tool designed to integrate quantized Large Language Models (LLMs) into robotic systems using ROS 2. Leveraging llama.cp…

Robotics company Tencore raises $3.7 million in one of the largest known investments in Ukraine defense tech: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/robotics-company-tencore-raises-million.html

Never mind the dummy,
The Robotaxi also failed to stop for the stop sign.
Nice hit and run afterwards, though.
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3lridgcwvvc2n

Freitag: Cloud-Störungen bei Google und Cloudflare, Anker mit Powerbank-Rückruf
Cloud-Ausfälle in großem Umfang Millionen-Rückruf von Powerbanks Waymo-Robotaxis teuer & beliebt Quantencomputer mit Fehlerkorrektur Datenschutz-Podcast

Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will "tentatively" begin on June 22 in Austin, with first autonomous deliveries of a car to a customer's home on June 28 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/elon-musk-

Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin 'tentatively' set to begin June 22
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday that the first self-driving Tesla will reach a customer's house on June 28.

Time-Unified Diffusion Policy with Action Discrimination for Robotic Manipulation
Ye Niu, Sanping Zhou, Yizhe Li, Ye Den, Le Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09422

Time-Unified Diffusion Policy with Action Discrimination for Robotic Manipulation
In many complex scenarios, robotic manipulation relies on generative models to estimate the distribution of multiple successful actions. As the diffusion model has better training robustness than other generative models, it performs well in imitation learning through successful robot demonstrations. However, the diffusion-based policy methods typically require significant time to iteratively denoise robot actions, which hinders real-time responses in robotic manipulation. Moreover, existing dif…

Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI "world model" to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/meta-launc

Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars
Meta on Wednesday announced it's rolling out a new AI "world model" that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.