Risklytics, founded by Sam and Alex, launched an insurance brokerage for companies building robots, drones, autonomous systems, and satellites by rewriting machine descriptions into insurer-ready applications and mapping which insurers add clauses that void AI coverage. The company says each successful policy pays it 10-20% commission, with no extra brokerage fee charged to customers. As a result, frontier tech firms denied coverage elsewhere can get clearer, more transparent options and a faster path to coverage, including within a week for first pilots.
Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head discusses how advancing AI agents could reshape both physical spaces and software by shifting design from human use to agent-ready workflows. The article cites that about 22% of land in cities with over 1 million residents is used for parking, and argues autonomous vehicles could cut that share and free space for other uses. It concludes that software and websites will increasingly be built to expose clean, API-focused interfaces for agents, changing where value and pricing power sit in classic human-facing systems.
Perceptron, founded by two former Meta FAIR scientists, launched Isaac 0.5 to bring visual AI for vision-guided robots into warehouses and factory floors. The model was trained on 1 million hours of general video and is released as an open-weight model. This adds a more general-purpose physical vision-and-control option that vendors can integrate while letting others inspect the parameters and training materials.
Unitree’s robot-maker IPO momentum in physical AI has reversed as analysts say robots are improving in hardware but still lack the know-how for reliable, value-creating work.
Generalist, a robotics startup founded by former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics researchers, raised about $200M in an extension to its Series B, taking its valuation from $2B to $3B in roughly six weeks. The financing pushed the total Series B to $600M after a $400M initial raise in June. The new capital is set to expand compute, hiring, and support for more robot hardware, with the goal of improving model performance such as Gen 1.5 learning from short video demonstrations.
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Generalist, a robotics startup, was valued at $3 billion after raising additional funding led by 8VC. The new round adds nearly $200 million, bringing the Series B extension’s total to $600 million. The company’s AI foundation model for multi-robot learning is set to expand use with customers as feedback is used to tailor it to specific tasks.
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