Mar. 24 at 8:58 PM
Google’s increased attention to robotics has also brought along internal skepticism.
Boston Dynamics, for example, has long-standing contracts with the Defense Department, and some DeepMind employees reportedly brought up concern at an all-hands meeting earlier this year, according to Business Insider.
It’s not just a trend at Google. Robotics is surfacing as a key use case for AI across the tech industry.
In February, Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup for construction machinery founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, raised
$270 million in a new fundraising round, valuing the two-year-old start-up at
$1.75 billion.
The round was led by Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG, Valor Atreides A.I. Fund; Nvidia’s venture arm and previous backer 8VC
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