March 28, 2024

Rooster Teeth to launch final Red vs Blue season as a movie

Rooster Teeth’s Red vs. Blue will return with on final season as a full-length movie, called Restoration, which launches on May 7.Read More

Rachel Kaser March 28, 2024

MineOS aims to illuminate the AI ‘black box’ for enterprise

MineOS enters the high-stakes race for enterprise AI governance with a new module designed to peer inside the black box of AI systems and provide the visibility needed for oversight and control.Read More

Michael Nuñez March 28, 2024

Robotics

Delta Electronics demonstrates digital twin, power systems at GTC – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Delta exhibited its data center and other technologies at NVIDIA GTC 2024. Source: Delta Electronics SAN JOSE, Calif. — Artificial intelligence and robotics both devour power, but simulation, next-generation processors, and good product design can mitigate the draw. At NVIDIA Corp.’s GTC event last week, Delta Electronics Inc. demonstrated how its digital twin platform, developed on NVIDIA Omniverse, can help enhance smart manufacturing capabilities. “We’ve partnered with NVIDIA on energy-efficient designs

Eugene Demaitre March 28, 2024

Buy now, pay later on a Porsche? Zaver now has $30M to make it a reality | TechCrunch

We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million funding round in 2021. The company has now closed a $10 million extension to its Series A funding round, bringing its total Series A to $20 million. Total investment to date stands at $30 million. In Europe, Zaver competes on BNPL with Klarna, PayPal, and incumbents such as Santander and BNP Paribas. However, Zaver’s schtick

Mike Butcher March 28, 2024

Robotics

Robotics Factory opens applications for Scale Residency Program – The Robot Report

Listen to this article ESTAT Actuation, KEF Robotics, Thiopoly, Thorne Baby, and Piximo made up the first resident cohort. | Source: Robotics Factory Pittsburgh-area robotics startups can now find more support through the Robotics Factory. The organization yesterday opened applications for its Scale Residency Program, which is intended to foster a culture of growth and collaboration for companies at various stages of development. Hardware and robotics accounted for 68% of Pittsburgh’s tech investments in 2023,

The Robot Report Staff March 28, 2024

Boston Dynamics Unleashes New Spot Variant for Research

4 min read Boston Dynamics At NVIDIA GTC last week, Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders gave a talk about deploying AI in real world robots—namely, how Spot is leveraging reinforcement learning to get better at locomotion (We spoke with Saunders last year about robots falling over). And Spot has gotten a lot better—a Spot robot takes a tumble on average once every 50 kilometers, even as the Spot fleet collectively walks enough to circle the

Evan Ackerman March 28, 2024

Start-ups

Meet Kidsy, a kids’ clothing startup that sells what parents need at a discount | TechCrunch

All parents know that raising kids is expensive. Especially in those early years when they quickly outgrow clothes or toys, leaving parents on a never-ending cycle of buying new stuff when the old stuff is hardly worn or used. Enter Kidsy, a new Chicago-based e-commerce startup that aims to give consumers greater access to discounted baby and kids products by partnering with large brands, retailers and liquidation companies for their overstock and returns inventory. At

Mary Ann Azevedo March 28, 2024

Skyflow raises $30M more as AI spikes demand for its privacy business | TechCrunch

This morning, Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. The deal is interesting on a number of fronts, including the round’s structure and how Skyflow has been impacted by the growth of AI. The new capital comes after Skyflow expanded its data privacy business to support new AI technologies last year. In an interview with TechCrunch, Skyflow co-founder and CEO Anshu Sharma said that its AI-related

Alex Wilhelm March 28, 2024

A New Alliance Is Advancing Augmented Reality

4 min read The AR Alliance believes Apple’s Vision Pro could be the product to spur widespread adoption of augmented reality technology. Apple’s Vision Pro headset might just be the breakthrough product that the augmented-reality industry has been waiting for to catalyze the widespread adoption of AR technology, according to the IEEE-ISTO AR Alliance. The new alliance’s goal is to foster and encourage the development of AR technologies, components, devices, solutions, and platforms. It is

Kathy Pretz March 28, 2024

AR/VR

Wilder World: Epic Games Store Welcomes the ‘GTA of Web3’

Wilder World, a massively multiplayer online metaverse, has made its way to the Epic Games Store for wishlisting, signalling a huge step towards its vision of becoming the first ‘GTA of Web3’. Developed by a team with deep roots in the Unreal Engine ecosystem, Wilder World invites players to dive into Wiami. In this virtual city, ‘ancient wisdom meets futuristic innovation’. This decentralized world challenges players to confront the authoritarian FORUM, offering a story of

Isaac Chang March 28, 2024