AI integration into physical systems—drones, robots, autonomous vehicles—is accelerating, with new startups, funding rounds, and government policies. The need for on-board inference and secure data handling drives local deployment and specialized hardware.
Los Angeles-based Tombot closed a $7m Series A3 round to bring its robotic dog Jennie from development to manufacturing. The investment, backed by health-tech funds, highlights architectural decisions in companion robots: local processing versus clou...
Berlin-based startup Almetra (formerly Deltia) has closed a €16.3 million Series A round led by blisce/. The platform combines AI cameras, machine data, and operator knowledge; video is processed locally to protect worker privacy and keep data in-hou...
South Korea turns physical AI policy into tangible action, blending robotics and manufacturing. For industry insiders, the shift highlights the centrality of on-premise deployment, edge computing, and data sovereignty—areas where AI-RADAR provides an...
The Danish startup closed a pre-seed round to develop unmanned eVTOL aircraft for heavy logistics. At its core is an onboard AI stack (eTHOR) enabling autonomous takeoff, landing, and beyond-visual-line-of-sight missions. A real-world case of local i...
DIGITIMES column highlights a historic shift in robotics: no longer rigid automatons with preset features, but machines that understand their surroundings and adapt thanks to embedded AI. This shift demands local inference hardware, new design metric...
China has unveiled a man-portable anti-drone laser weapon with 2 kW output, AI-based targeting, able to destroy a drone at 500 meters in just 4 seconds. Weighing about 25 kg, it can be carried by a single soldier. The AI operates entirely on-device, ...
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, creator of VLC, has raised $5 million for Kyber, an infrastructure layer for real-time control of remote devices. The round, led by Lightspeed, signals growing interest in architectures that handle ultra-low latency for industria...
