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Self-driving cars, humanoid robots and factory automation carry risks that standard auto, property and liability policies don’t usually cover. Insurers are now building a new line of business around machines…
Machenta cofounders Edward Johns and Vitalis Vosylius Oscar May Machenta raised $40 million in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. It says robots can learn tasks from…
Elon Musk compared training Optimus to raising a toddler. Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images Elon Musk said a shortage of training data meant teaching Tesla's Optimus robot is like…
A prototype of Tesla's Optimus robot. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Tesla has begun production of its humanoid robot, Optimus, in Fremont, California. Musk said he expects to begin delivering…
J Studios/Getty Images This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here . Daft Punk only had it half…
Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI For decades, hardware was a hard sell in Silicon Valley. Now investors are pouring tens of billions into machines that can do things in the real…
For a long time, robots made little economic sense for food manufacturers juggling many recipes, each with its own mix of ingredients. Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that sells…
Tyler Le/BI One Friday evening this summer, a private chef prepared a three-course meal — burrata salad, baked salmon, and tiramisu — for two friends and me. The dinner was…
Elon Musk said Tesla is working to design a reliable human hand for its Optimus robot. Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images The human hand is a difficult engineering challenge…
