Tools and platforms that give machines the ability to sense, interpret, and act on the world, from sensor fusion to robot foundation models.
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Daimler Truck and Torc Robotics have selected Innoviz Technologies to supply short-range LiDAR sensors for the series production of SAE Level 4 autonomous trucks. The sensors will support Torcās virtual driver as part of a commercial rollout across North America.
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Depth Anything 3 is a new vision model from the ByteDance Seed Team, founded in 2023 to build advanced AI foundation models. The model reconstructs 3D scenes from visual input, including single images, a set of images, or video.
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Point One Navigation has raised $35 million in Series C funding to expand its precision location platform, which delivers centimeter-level accuracy for connected machines operating in the real world.
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Meta has launched SAM 3D, a new system for turning everyday images into 3D models. The release includes SAM 3D Objects for reconstructing physical scenes and objects, and SAM 3D Body for estimating human pose and shape.
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Archetype AI, a company focused on developing general physical intelligence, announced it has raised $35 million in Series A funding. The round was led by IAG Capital Partners and Hitachi Ventures
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Exwayz, a Paris-based company developing 3D positioning software for autonomous systems, has raised ā¬1 million in funding led by CentraleSupĆ©lec Venture.
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Point One Navigation and SenSen have partnered to bring real-time, centimeter-level location accuracy to SenSenās smart city systems. By integrating Point Oneās Polaris RTK corrections network, SenSen will enhance positioning capabilities across its applications
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Sensetics, a haptics and touch data company, has raised $1.75 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of its touch-sensing platform. The round was co-led by MetaVC Partners and Fitz Gate Ventures, with support from Blue Sky Capital and AIC Ventures.
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ROLI has acquired Ultraleap, the company behind Leap Motion and known for its hand-tracking and mid-air haptics tech. The acquisition comes after the years of the two teams have working together on a shared goal of using gesture to change how people create and play music.
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Intrinsic, an AI robotics company at Alphabet, has introduced a new system that helps robots see and understand their surroundings. Called Intrinsic Vision Model (IVM), it showed strong performance across different types of objects, ranking first in seven out of eleven tests at ICCV 2025.
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NVIDIA has launched what it describes as the worldās largest open-source dataset for physical AI, part of a broader release of multimodal data across robotics, language, and autonomous systems.
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Augmentus, a robotics software company based in Singapore with operations in Austin, Texas, has received funding from Applied Ventures, the investment arm of Applied Materials.