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The American startup Feather Robotics is betting on a customizable humanoid robotic platform that allows developers to modify the hardware and run models from different artificial intelligence providers. The company has begun selling limited quantities of its robots and generated more than $1 million in revenue, as it prepares to launch a broader product.
Robotics startup Generalist has secured nearly $200 million in additional funding, raising the company’s valuation to $3 billion just months after it was valued at $2 billion. The company is developing an artificial intelligence foundation model that can be used with multiple types of robots, but it faces a market still searching for a practical way to build general-purpose robotics models.