General Motors will stop funding Cruise's robotaxi development due to long development times, high costs, and a competitive market. The company will combine Cruise and GM technical teams to advance autonomous driving.

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General Motors (GM) has stopped funding Cruise LLC's robotaxi deployment due to lengthy development times, high costs, and increased competition. Despite investing over $10 billion in Cruise since 2016, GM will now integrate Cruise's technical team with GM's to focus on autonomous and assisted driving technologies.

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Amazon opens new AI lab in San Francisco to advance foundational AI capabilities for the digital and physical worlds.

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Diligent Robotics formed an AI Advisory Board with leaders from Stanford, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon to advance AI research in collaborative robotics.

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Interact Analysis reduced its forecast for the global mobile robot market by 18% in 2027 due to macroeconomic factors impacting demand, including slowed investment in automation and delayed AMR deployments.

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Kivnon Logística entered bankruptcy due to shifts in the AGV market, particularly in the automotive sector, but other industries like logistics and e-commerce continue to drive demand for automation solutions.

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Intuitive Surgical conducted a meta-analysis of 30-day surgical outcomes across seven oncological procedures, comparing robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgical approaches. The analysis covered 230 studies from 22 countries and demonstrated multiple benefits for robotic surgery using the da Vinci surgical robot.

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Oxipital AI has partnered with Stäubli Robotics to develop machine vision technologies for robotic automation in various industries, including food processing.

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This podcast episode discusses investment trends in robotics with venture capitalists Juliette Chevallier from Scale Venture Partners and Jasmeet Singh from JMOON Ventures. They emphasize the importance of execution risk over technical risk in robotics investments.

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Hello Robot released an open-source toolkit called Stretch AI to empower developers to explore embodied AI on the Stretch 3 mobile manipulator, which is gaining traction in university labs.

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