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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,

Skyports raised $110M in Series C funding, led by infrastructure and construction company ACS Group. The London-based company designs, builds, and operates take-off and landing infrastructure for air taxis, and partners with electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle manufacturers. Collaborative Robotics raised a $100M Series B round led by General Catalyst and joined by Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures, and Lux Capital. The Silicon Valley company is developing a “nov

Figure raised a $675M Series B at a $2.6B valuation from Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, and others. The Bay Area company is building “general purpose humanoid” robots for industrial use cases. Medical Microinstruments raised $110M in Series C funding, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. The Italian startup’s technology allows surgeons to replicate the movements of a human ha

Applied Intuition raised a $250M Series E led by Bilal Zuberi at Lux Capital, Elad Gil, and strategic investor Porsche Investments Management. Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst also joined, among others. The Silicon Valley company develops software infrastructure to develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale, and is now valued at $6B. Physical Intelligence emerged from stealth with a $70M Seed round led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Khosla V

Cruise received an $850M investment from parent company General Motors. The autonomous vehicle subsidiary will use the funds to relaunch its robotaxi services in Phoenix, Dallas, and Houston. Waabi raised $200M in Series B funding led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, with participation from strategic investors like NVIDIA, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Scania Invest, and Ingka Investments. The Toronto company is building an end-to-end AI system to sup

Wayve raised $1.05B in Series C funding in a round led by SoftBank Group, with participation from new investor NVIDIA and existing investor Microsoft. The London company’s embodied AI system will enable OEMs to upgrade existing vehicles to higher levels of driving automation, and claims to be the first company to develop and test an end-to-end deep learning autonomous driving system on public roads. The Bot Company raised $150M in funding led by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedma