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The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) could map the line and pinpoint the location of the fault for a diver […]
Asia’s startup funding swung higher in the first quarter of this year, boosted by a rebound in Chinese venture investment. Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels. Total funding
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Asia’s startup funding swung higher in the first quarter of this year, boosted by a rebound in Chinese venture investment. Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels. Total funding
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In this tutorial, we build and run a complete Pose2Sim pipeline on Colab to understand how markerless 3D kinematics works in practice. We begin with environment setup, configure the project for Colab’s headless runtime, and then walk through calibration, 2D pose estimation, synchronization, person association, triangulation, filtering, marker augmentation, and OpenSim-based kinematics. As we progress,
A Coding Guide to Markerless 3D Human Kinematics with Pose2Sim, RTMPose, and OpenSim Read More »
Robotic machine learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to require the dexterity and muscle memory of human hands. Generalist is also touting the new model’s ability to respond to disruptions by improvising new
From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability Read More »
The first quarter was one for the North American venture capital record books. U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds per Crunchbase data. That’s more than 3x the total raised in the prior quarter, and the largest quarterly total of all time. Predictably, artificial intelligence was the
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Data and image annotation outsourcing to India has become the foundational engine for the global robotics industry, providing high-precision LiDAR, 3D point cloud, and sensor fusion labeling. By leveraging the top 1% of Indian BPOs, robotics companies can access specialized engineering talent to train autonomous systems with 99.9% accuracy. Cynergy BPO provides supplier sourcing and
Anvil Robotics, an eight-month-old startup that aims to be the “Legos for robots,” has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Matter Venture Partners led the raise, which included participation from Humba Ventures, DNX Ventures, Superhuman founder Vivek Sodera, Spacecadet Ventures and Position Ventures. Anvil had previously raised $1
Update: The data and charts in this report were updated at 11:30 a.m. PT on April 1, 2026, to reflect the latest data in Crunchbase for Q1 2026. The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured
Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To $300B Read More »
The stereotypical seed-funded company may be a scrappy startup with a shoestring budget. But in the age of AI, that’s not where investors are concentrating their bets. Instead, recent months have served as a busy period for big commitments to seed-stage companies that are short on operating history and long on ambition. To illustrate, we
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