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A&K Robotics has secured $8 million in Series A funding to scale the deployment of its autonomous passenger pods, aiming to solve a growing accessibility crisis in global aviation. The investment, led by BDC Capital and Vantage Futures, will accelerate the rollout of Cruz, a self-driving robot designed to navigate high-traffic airport terminals and provide independent mobility for the millions of travelers facing physical limitations. Navigating airports can be a stressful ex

SS Innovations International Inc. this week unveiled four in-development surgical robotic systems at its Global Multi-Specialty Robotic Surgery Conference in New Delhi, India. These new systems include the SSi Vimana Aero Drone System, the SSi Avtara Humanoid Surgical Platform, the SSi Operion Mobile Operating Room, and new single-arm robotic endoscopy and ultrasound assist carts. “Innovation is in our DNA. Beyond continuously improving our advanced, cost-effective SSi Mantra

1. Large Model Chauvinism Will Get Someone Hurt There’s this belief going around that AI models are getting so good that hardware can afford to be dumb. Sensors? The model will figure it out from vision. Safety limits? The policy will learn to avoid them. I call this Large Model Chauvinism. At our startup, it shaped decisions constantly. And to be fair, it wasn’t one person’s blind spot — most of us bought into it to some degree. The AI was genuinely impressive, and it was ea

With all eyes on an autonomous future of flight, it’s easy to forget the human pilots who will remain firmly in the cockpit for the foreseeable future. Luckily, one San Francisco-based company is remaining focused on people, even as we await the rise of the robots. Yesterday, Navi AI—a startup using AI to improve pilot training and performance—emerged from stealth with $6.7M in funding from United Airlines Ventures, BVVC, New Vista Capital, Raptor Group, I2BF, and the Pentag

Looks like Epirus is making its relationship with GD Land Systems into a throuple. This morning, directed energy counter-UAS startup Epirus announced that it’s teaming up with General Dynamics Land Systems and ground autonomy hotshot Kodiak to build a mobile, autonomous drone-zapper called the Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV). The AGV will be equipped with Epirus’ signature Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) system. For the uninitiated: instead of jamming, shooting,