Amazon's touch-sensing warehouse robot wins industry award, reshapes automation
Amazon Vulcan, the first warehouse robot with tactile sensing deployed at scale, was named Robot of the Year at the Robotics Summit, signaling a shift from vision-only systems to dexterous manipulation.
Anvil Robotics Closes $5.5M Seed as Physical AI Hits the Assembly Line
Anvil Robotics, an eight-month-old startup selling modular robot dev-kits, closed a $5.5M seed round with Nvidia's GEAR lab as a paying customer and seven-figure revenue already in the bank—signaling that physical AI infrastructure, not just models, is now the competitive moat.