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Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

Field also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.

Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the EV company's secretive robotics startup. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company's ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to make an auto

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 in San Francisco.

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Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 for fast, high-volume AI tasks, with lower pricing and adjustable reasoning effort ahead of a potential public offering.

"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

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The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U.S.-based manufacturers, shippers, and more.

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Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

AMD is expanding beyond chips through an $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs and a broader push into AI software, models and systems. The company is strengthening partnerships with Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic.

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"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."

Uhura Bionics, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Battlefield 200, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carries emotions.

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Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.

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Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.