Insider Brief Robotera has raised more than $200 million in a new funding round led by SF Group as the Chinese humanoid robotics company expands deployments in logistics and industrial automation. According to Robotera, the financing follows a separate USD $143 million strategic round completed in March and included participation from investors such as HSG, […]
Insider Brief Humanoid robotics company Figure AI announced it has increased production of its Figure 03 humanoid robot from one unit per day to one per hour in less than four months. The company said it has now produced more than 350 third-generation humanoid robots through BotQ, its high-volume manufacturing facility, which it describes as […]
An autonomous table tennis robot developed by Sony AI has competed against and defeated high-level human players in regulated matches, according to Reuters. The system is part of a broader category often referred to as “physical AI,” where artificial intelligence is applied to machines operating in real-world environments. The robot, named Ace, was designed to […]
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Insider Brief Accenture, working with SAP and Vodafone Procure & Connect, has deployed humanoid robots in a warehouse to evaluate how advanced robotics systems can improve efficiency, safety and decision-making in logistics operations The humanoid robots in the pilot run on Accenture’s “Robot Brain,” a system designed to let them work more naturally with people […]
This week, something significant happened. Rather than testing the waters in their own way, a big European bank has made a leap into Artificial Intelligence. They’re doing this in partnership with Accenture and Anthropic in order to build an entire AI hub, and it sends a message across the sector: get in line or fall behind! Piraeus Bank, Accenture and Anthropic will build a centralized AI engine to help the bank transform its operations. Okay, hold on a minute. I know what you might be thinking. We’ve been bombarded with this rhetoric for some time: AI will change banking! And […]
OpenAI launches Codex Transformation Partners, a program with Accenture, PwC, Infosys, and others to help enterprises deploy and scale Codex across the software development lifecycle.