Industrial Robots
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Emerges From Eight Years of Stealth to Launch Atoms, a Robotics Company Betting Against Humanoids
Kalanick rebrands City Storage Systems as Atoms, absorbing CloudKitchens and acquiring autonomous-driving startup Pronto to build purpose-built industrial robots.
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London Surgeon Performs UK's First Remote Robotic Surgery on a Cancer Patient 2,400 Kilometers Away in Gibraltar
Professor Prokar Dasgupta operated a robotic system from The London Clinic to remove a prostate in Gibraltar with only 60 milliseconds of latency, marking the UK's first telesurgery and Europe's longest-distance remote operation.
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Caterpillar Demonstrates First Autonomous Construction Compactor at CONEXPO as It Pivots a Century-Old Equipment Empire Toward AI
Caterpillar debuts a driverless CS12 soil compactor and a conversational AI assistant at CONEXPO 2026, extending mining autonomy to construction sites.
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Bedrock Robotics Raises $270M at $1.75B Valuation to Bring Autonomous Excavators to Construction Sites
Ex-Waymo engineers secure major Series B to deploy operator-less construction equipment amid an industry labor crisis.
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