Roboxi raises €13M for airport airside robotics/automation (FOD detection, runway inspection)
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Image: Primary Beijing-based GenRobot AI has completed a $100 million Series A+ funding round, TechNode reported. The company develops equipment and software that collect human demonstrations for use in training robots, providing data infrastructure for companies developing robots.
DJI has launched the Matrice 5T through authorized Enterprise dealers, adding thermal imaging, LiDAR and millimeter-wave radar for emergency responders and infrastructure inspectors. Its native 1280 x 1024 thermal camera has four times as many pixels as a 640 x 512 sensor.
Shield AI secured $2 billion in equity funding and $500 million in debt financing, Crunchbase News reported. The defense technology company develops autonomy software and systems, alongside simulation and synthetic reality technologies.
Axon has invested $1.2B in autonomous drone manufacturer Skydio at a $5.2B pre-money valuation, according to Resilience Media. The investment gives Axon a minority stake and strengthens an exclusive public safety partnership.
OpenAI has received roughly $11 billion in new funding, the initial portion of a round valuing it at $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The money had been wired by Friday.
Motorola Solutions closed its $1.3 billion acquisition of D-Fend, adding technology to detect and mitigate drones, according to a Yahoo Finance account of its third-quarter earnings call.