Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Automation in AI

HuLoop
AI-Based Intelligent Automation Leader to Accelerate Innovation, Invest in Customer Success and Expand Market Reach HuLoop Automation, the leader in radically simple, fast, and affordable AI-powered intelligent automation, announced the successful closing of its Series A funding round.  While the specific terms aren't being announced publicly, the round was led...
Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI, a company on a mission to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots, unveils a new generation of tactile sensor technology optimized to improve dexterous manipulation. Sanctuary is focused on achieving human-level dexterity for general purpose robots to perform high value tasks in the workplace. This requires...
Pudu Robotics
Pudu Robotics , a global leader in service robotics, haslaunchedits first full-size bipedal humanoid robot, PUDU D9 . Developed by Pudu X-Lab , this innovative robot is the team's third product this year,following the semi-humanoid robot PUDU D7 and the dexterous hand PUDU DH11 . With a height of 170 cm and a weight of 65 kg, the...
Apptronik
Apptronik, the AI-powered humanoid robotics company, announced it had entered a strategic partnership agreement with the Google DeepMind robotics team. The partnership will bring together best-in-class artificial intelligence with cutting-edge hardware and embodied intelligence, advancing humanoid robots that can be more helpful to people in dynamic environments. “We’re building a...
Patronus AI
Patronus AI announced the release of GLIDER, its groundbreaking 3.8B parameter model designed as a fast, flexible, and explainable judge for language models. The new open-source model is the smallest model to outperform GPT-4o-mini used as an evaluator, offering institutions a fast and cost-effective solution for evaluations without sacrificing quality. Traditional proprietary...
Hamming.ai
Hamming.ai, the AI voice agent reliability platform, announced that it has raised $3.8 million in seed funding led by Mischief, with participation from YCombinator, AI Grant, Pioneer, Coalition Operators, Coughdrop and angels including Hiten Shah, Ran Makavy, Max Kolysh, Richard Aberman and Kulveer Taggar. “Conversational AI is advancing rapidly —but...
Windward
The partnership will integrate Dataminr's real-time AI insights into Windward's Maritime AI™ platform, enriching critical information with new context Windward, the leading Maritime AI™ company, announced that it has partnered with Dataminr, one of the world's leading AI companies, to integrate Dataminr's real-time AI that discovers events, risks, and critical...
Creanord
Creanord, a leading provider of network performance monitoring and service assurance solutions, and Lounea, a major Finnish broadband fiber connectivity provider and ICT specialist, announced the next phase of their groundbreaking AI-driven network optimization project. “This collaboration with Creanord is a testament to our commitment to delivering exceptional network services.“...
Vicon
Cemtrex Inc., an advanced security technology and industrial services company, announced that its subsidiary, Vicon Industries, Inc., secured a partnership with Hailo, an AI chip manufacturer known for its high-performance edge AI processors. Together, Vicon and Hailo are raising the bar for video intelligence by integrating the groundbreaking Hailo-15...
Symbotic
Symbotic Inc., a leader in A.I.-enabled robotics technology for the supply chain, announced that it has completed the acquisition of OhmniLabs, a Silicon Valley-based innovator in the field of robotics solutions for health care. “Combining Symbotic’s expertise in large-scale automation with OhmniLabs’ ground-breaking mobile robots, vision and AI solutions will...