Where robotics venture money is going: body, brain, infrastructure

Robotics funding is clustering around robot hardware, foundation policies, and the data/simulation/pretraining stack around those policies

All the venture money in robotics is going to three verticals: 1/ The robot body (Figure, 1X) 2/ The robot brain (Physical Intelligence, Skild AI) 3/ The infrastructure around the brain, mainly data collection, simulation, pre-training sta
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