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| 19.08.2025 | Silicon Valley’s AI deals are creating zombie startups: ‘You hollowed out the organization’ | Regulatory hurdles surrounding M&A have led tech giants to use an alternative tactic to acquire talent in artificial intelligence.
Meta and Google have spent billions of dollars to bring in AI leaders, who are leaving their companies be... |
| 24.07.2025 | Amazon venture fund backs startup developing fix for return fraud | Amazon’s $1 billion industrial fund is backing Cambridge Terahertz, a startup developing 3D imaging technology for supply chain and security uses.
Cambridge has just closed a $12 million seed funding, including money from Amazon.
The compan... |
| 04.11.2024 | The Rise of Universal Robot Intelligence: A $400 Million Leap Forward | In a world where robots are often seen as specialized tools, a new player is emerging. Physical Intelligence, a startup focused on creating a universal brain for robots, has just secured $400 million in funding. This is not just a financial... |
| 04.11.2024 | Robot AI startup Physical Intelligence raises $400 mln from Bezos, OpenAI | Artificial IntelligenceRobot AI startup Physical Intelligence raises $400 mln from Bezos, OpenAI
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| 25.09.2024 | Google Is Paying $2.7 Billion to Reportedly Rehire an Early Employee Who Built an AI Chatbot Before ChatGPT The 48-year-old engineer reportedly made hundreds of millions of dollars through the deal. | In August, Google entered a $2.7 billion agreement with AI chatbot startup Character.AI. The official reason? Getting a license to use Character's technology.
The unofficial reason? According to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal report, the c... |
| 13.09.2024 | The Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum: A Road Less Traveled | The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is upon us, yet the road to widespread adoption is riddled with potholes. The promise of a cleaner, greener future is clouded by a fundamental issue: charging infrastructure. As the world shifts gears to... |
| 12.09.2024 | Amazon открыла супермаркеты Fresh после годового простоя, но многие магазины остаются пустыми | Генеральный директор Amazon Энди Джасси приостановил расширение линейки Fresh в феврале 2023 года после того, как магазины не оправдали ожиданий компании. После долгого перерыва Amazon начал открывать новые магазины своей сети супермаркетов... |
| 03.09.2024 | Amazon наняла основателей Covariant для автоматизации складов с помощью AI-роботов | Amazon нанимает трех основателей Covariant, стартапа, работающего над ИИ для складской робототехники, и получает неисключительную лицензию на их модели ИИ. Covariant останется самостоятельной, но трое основателей и часть сотрудников перейду... |
| 31.08.2024 | Amazon and Inflection AI: Navigating the AI Landscape with Strategic Moves | In the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence, companies are racing to secure their positions. Amazon and Inflection AI are two players making significant moves that could reshape their futures. Both companies are leveraging partnershi... |
| 31.08.2024 | Amazon заключил коммерческое соглашение с разработчиком систем ИИ-автоматизации робототехники Covariant | Стартап из Bay Area, как объявляет Amazon, продолжит работать в привычном режиме. Финансовые условия соглашения не разглашаются.
Похожую сделку корпорация заключила в июне, когда наняла основателей Adept, схожего стартапа по ИИ-автоматизаци... |
| 16.04.2024 | How LLMs are ushering in a new era of robotics | Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here.
Recent months have seen a growing number of projec... |
| 12.04.2024 | These 74 robotics companies are hiring | It’s tough out there — and yet, doing my semi-regular jobs post always gives me hope. Seems every time I post one of these, the number increases. At 74 companies, this is undoubtedly the largest list we’ve made, by a wide margin. That means... |
| 17.03.2024 | This company is using the AI that powers ChatGPT to help warehouse robots expect the unexpected | AI This company is using the AI that powers ChatGPT to help warehouse robots expect the unexpected
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| 11.03.2024 | Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots | Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “is basically a large language model (LLM)... |
| 11.03.2024 | Covariant Develops Language Model That Can Make Robots Think Like Humans | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 11 March 2024, 11:03 pm
Covariant, the artificial intelligence spinout from UC Berkeley, has unveiled RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1), positioned as a "large language model (LLM) for robot language" by C... |
| 10.11.2023 | AI robotics’ ‘GPT moment’ is near | Peter Chen Contributor
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Peter Chen is CEO and co-founder of Covariant, the world's leading AI robotics company. Before founding Covariant, Peter was a research scientist at OpenAI and a researcher at the Berkeley Artificial Intell... |
| 08.11.2023 | The Robots Are Still Rising, Albeit With Less Funding | 9 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Every so often, a startup comes along hawking a product that elicits the reaction: “I want that.”
The latest exemplar of this is Matic, developer of an AI-enabled robot capable of vacuuming and moppi... |
| 13.04.2023 | Covariant Raises $75M in Series C | Covariant Robot at Covariant HQ
Robots are moving from structured environments like car factories to medium structured environments such as warehouses, where they are becoming sufficiently reliable to help fulfill orders.
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| 07.04.2023 | Warehouse robotic start-up Covariant raises US $ 75 million | Image Courtesy: Covariant
Warehouse robotics start-up Covariant has raised US $ 75 million in funding in an extension to its Series C round, co-led by Radical Ventures and Index Ventures, with participation from five other institutional bac... |
| 06.04.2023 | California-based AI firm Covariant raises USD 75 million in Series C investment | California’s EMERYVILLE — The foremost AI robotics firm in the world, Covariant, revealed that it had raised an additional USD 75 million in Series C investment, bringing its total capital to USD 222 million. The round was co-led by returni... |
| 05.04.2023 | Covariant Adds $75 Million in Series C Funds to Meet Customer Demand for Scaled AI Robotics Deployments | New financing brings total raised to $222 million; existing investor participation highlights confidence in Covariant’s roadmap to fix today’s broken supply chain
Covariant, the world’s leading AI Robotics company, announced it has raised a... |
| 04.04.2023 | Covariant’s robotic picking AI nabs another $75M | I took a deep dive with Covariant co-founder and CEO Peter Chen at ProMat the other week. The timing was either perfect or terrible depending on who you ask. I’m sure the startup’s comms people are thrilled that I’m writing a follow-up a we... |
| 04.04.2023 | Covariant Pulls In Additional $75M Series C Round |
EMERYVILLE, CA, Today Covariant, the world's leading AI Robotics company, announced it has raised an additional $75 million in Series C funds, bringing its total funding to $222 million.
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| 04.04.2023 | Covariant raises $75M for its AI-powered warehouse robots
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes Amazon Web S... | Covariant, a startup developing warehouse robots that can be deployed faster than traditional automation hardware, has raised $75 million in funding.
The company disclosed the investment today. The capital was provided as an extension to a ... |
| 04.04.2023 | Covariant Adds $75M in Series C | Covarinat, an Emeryville, CA-based AI robotics company, raised additional $75M in Series C funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $222M, was co-led by Radical Ventures and Index Ventures with additional funding from returning... |
| 28.03.2023 | Covariant’s CEO on building AI that helps robots learn | Covariant was founded in 2017 with a simple goal: helping robots learn how to better pick up objects. It’s a large need among those looking to automate warehouses, and one that is much more complex than it might appear. Most of the goods we... |
| 18.12.2022 | Every Software Application Will Incorporate AI | Image created with Midjourney
And AI-native apps will generally win over AI-retrofit.
Over the past two decades, we’ve seen a proliferation of SaaS products that we use in every part of our daily work. This current generation of applicati... |
| 07.11.2022 | Business Reporter: Covariant robots demonstrate new levels of picking and placing never witnessed before | AI robotics can intelligently automate various use cases in the logistics and warehousing sector – and beyond – for more productive throughput LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, November 7, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a video published on Business R... |
| 10.10.2021 | These virtual obstacle courses help real robots learn to walk | reader comments 28 with 21 posters participating
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| 10.10.2021 | These virtual obstacle courses help real robots learn to walk | reader comments 38 with 26 posters participating
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| 02.10.2021 | NVIDIA : AI Offers Versatile General Robots on Horizon, Says Robotics Visionary | Robots require huge training leaps in AI to become versatile general helpers, says robotics pioneer Pieter Abbeel, who laid out a vision for such neural network brains of the future.
Home robots are electronically and mechanically possible ... |
| 29.07.2021 | Covariant Raises $80M in Series C Funding | Covariant, a Berkeley, Calif.-based AI Robotics company, raised $80m in Series C funding.
The round was led by returning investor Index Ventures, with additional participation from Amplify Partners and Radical Ventures and new investors Tem... |
| 27.07.2021 | AI Robotics tech startup Covariant raises $80M funding to build AI robots that can see, reason, and act on the world around them | Since the first industrial robots were introduced in the early 1960s, millions of robots have been deployed globally and their impact is undeniable. Robots have been able to automate countless dangerous, repetitive tasks, transforming manuf... |
| 27.07.2021 | Robotic AI firm Covariant raises another $80 million | In May of last year, Covariant announced that it had raised a $40 million Series B. It was a healthy sum of money for the young company, bringing its total funding up to $67 million. Just a little over a year later, the Berkeley-based AI st... |
| 27.07.2021 | Berkeley-based Covariant secures USD 80 Million in Series C round | 27.July.2021 – Covariant, a Berkeley-based AI startup, announced that it raised USD 80 Million in a Series A round. This Series C investment was led by the existing backers, Index Ventures featuring Temasek, Amplify Partners, Radical Ventur... |
| 27.07.2021 | Covariant Pulls In $80M Series C Financing |
BERKELEY, CA, Covariant, a leading AI Robotics company, today announced it has raised $80 million in Series C funding.
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| 27.07.2021 | Why Palantir is investing in SPACs | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Not too long ago, adtech companies were not doing too hot. Under pressure from the likes of Alpha... |
| 27.07.2021 | Covariant : Raises $80M in Series C Funding, Achieves Autonomy Across Industries | BERKELEY, Calif., July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Covariant, a leading AI Robotics company, today announced it has raised $80 million in Series C funding, bringing its total capitalization to $147 million within two years of the company's pub... |
| 27.07.2021 | Covariant Raises $80M in Series C Funding, Achieves Autonomy Across Industries | |
| 17.06.2021 | Deep reinforcement learning will transform manufacturing as we know it | Chris Nicholson Contributor
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| 14.07.2020 | Bringing AI to Businesses Everywhere | The Co-founders of Abacus.ai – Siddartha Naidu, Bindu Reddy, and Arvind Sundararajan.
Marty Chavez was the CIO at Goldman Sachs until he retired a couple of years ago. Of all the enterprise technology executives that I’ve worked with over ... |
| 11.05.2020 | AI Robotics Company Covariant Raises $40 Million | AI robotics company Covariant recently announced that it raised $40 million in Series B funding
AI robotics company Covariant recently announced that it raised $40 million in Series B funding. This brings the company’s total funding to $67 ... |
| 07.05.2020 | Covariant Raises $40M in Series B Funding | Covariant, a Berkeley, CA-based developer of artificial intelligence for robotics, raised $40m in Series B funding.
The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $67m, was led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures with participa... |
| 06.05.2020 | The Next Great AI Company? Covariant Attracts $40M Series B | 44 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Within all industries, companies are under pressure to deliver goods efficiently, fast and reliably, and especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in a way that keeps workers safe.
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| 06.05.2020 | Covariant raises $40 million to bring robots to low-tech industries | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Covariant today announced the close of a $40 mill... |
| 06.05.2020 | Covariant Scores $40M in Series B |
BERKELEY, CA, Covariant announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Index Ventures.
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| 06.05.2020 | Covariant raises $40 million to bring robots to low-tech industries | Covariant today announced the close of a $40 million series B funding round to bring its robotic control systems to additional industries and create more systems capable of picking, placing, and unloading objects in warehouses. Until now, C... |
| 06.05.2020 | The Rebirth of Robotics: How Covariant Unlocks the Power of Deep Learning for Robots | Most robots these days make use of some form of Deep Learning. These are basically large neural networks that allow the robot to learn both the perception of an object(s) it engages with as well as the motion plan that determines how the ro... |
| 06.05.2020 | Industrial AI startup Covariant raises a $40M Series B | Covariant this week announced that it has raised a $40 million Series B, led by Index Ventures. The funding brings the three-year-old Berkeley startup’s total funding up to $67 million. Co-founded by top UC Berkeley professor Pieter Abbeel,... |
| 06.05.2020 | The Next Great AI Company? Covariant Attracts $40M Series B | 46 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Within all industries, companies are under pressure to deliver goods efficiently, fast and reliably, and especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in a way that keeps workers safe.
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| 23.09.2018 | Q&A With Amplify Partners Regarding Its $200M Fund III | 15 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Amplify Partners, a venture capital firm, announced a new, larger fund this week.
The $200 million vehicle is larger than its prior two funds. Its raise puts Amplify in crowded company, as many vent... |
| 23.09.2018 | Q&A With Amplify Partners Regarding Its $200M Fund III | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Amplify Partners, a venture capital firm, announced a new, larger fund this week.
The $200 million vehicle is larger than its prior two funds. Its raise puts Amplify in crowded company, as many vent... |
| 13.06.2018 | Samsung Next launches Q Fund for startups tackling AI’s biggest challenges | Samsung’s team designed to seek out innovative, forward-thinking technology today announced the launch of the Q Fund, an investment initiative meant to advance early-stage AI startups.
Initial investments by the Q Fund include robotics star... |
| 13.06.2018 | Samsung Next launches Q Fund for startups tackling AI’s biggest challenges | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Samsung’s team designed to seek out innovative, f... |
| - | Стартап Covariant привлек $80 млн на разработку ИИ-алгоритма для роботов | Image credit: Covariant
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| - | AI Robotics Company Covariant Raises $75 Million | Covariant – a leading AI Robotics company – announced it raised an additional $75 million in Series C funds, bringing its total funding to $222 million. The returning investors Radical Ventures and Index Ventures co-led the round. And the c... |
| - | Covariant | “Address the change and scale of your warehouse operations with robotic automation, built by the world’s leading AI research scientists.” |
