Update: This story has been updated to reflect that ServiceNow says it is no longer in talks with Decagon. Buzzy AI agent startup Decagon could be the latest company swept up in a growing wave of AI dealmaking. The company, which was last valued at $4.5 billion earlier this year, has hired a bank to
DoorDash’s delivery robot isn’t quite ready for prime time. The delivery service has spent the last several months testing its Dot delivery robot as it makes deliveries in parts of Phoenix, Arizona. And while the company is working on securing permits for Dot to expand to other cities, there’s still a lot that the company
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
A former Formula One engineer has left the world’s fastest racing cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories. Now, his Munich-based startup microagi has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global
