Robotics Ex-DeepMind team cuts robot retraining from a day to ten minutes
Reimagine Robotics emerged from stealth on August 3, founded by former DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, with robots workers train by demonstration.
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Robotics US robot installs jumped 11%, still a tenth of China's
New IFR figures show US industrial-robot installations up 11% to 38,000 units, with the fastest growth in food plants — while America's total still trails China's volume by an order of magnitude.
Robotics Standard Bots raises $200M to arm American factories with robots
Standard Bots raised a $200M Series C at a $1B valuation, expanding its New York plant and pitching American-made robots — plus a ban on Chinese ones — as the fix for U.S. manufacturing.
Robotics Fanuc + Google, May 14: World's Largest Industrial Robot-Arm Maker Strikes a 1.1 Million-Unit Retrofit Deal with Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise) and Alphabet's Intrinsic (Flowstate) — Tokyo Shares Spike +15.6% to an All-Time High of ¥8,880 in a Single Session, the Brownfield Counter-Bet to Every Greenfield Humanoid Pitch
Fanuc announced a Google Cloud + Intrinsic partnership to bring Gemini Enterprise and Flowstate to its 1.1M installed industrial robots — Tokyo shares rallied +15.6% to a record ¥8,880, validating the brownfield retrofit thesis.