Kodiak Robotics to expand autonomous trucking with $125M

Kodiak Robotics, a startup developing self-driving truck technologies, today announced that it raised $125 million in an oversubscribed series B round for a total of $165 million to date. The tranche — which includes investments from SIP Global Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, CRV, Muirwoods Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, StepStone Group, Gopher Asset Management, Walleye […]

Curia to Expand U.S. Commercial Manufacturing Capability

ALBANY, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 19, 2021– Curia, formerly AMRI, a leading contract research, development and manufacturing organization, today announced plans to expand its commercial manufacturing capacity at its Rensselaer, New York facility. The increased capability to flexibly manufacture complex Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) will further strengthen Curia’s ability to partner with customers, meeting small-scale to large-volume […]

IBM acquires Bluetab to expand hybrid cloud service offerings

Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! A week after snatching up startup BoxBoat, IBM today announced another acquisition to expand its portfolio of data, cloud, and analytics services. With Bluetab, IBM aims to further advance its hybrid cloud and AI strategy across Europe, Latin […]

How Yandex plans to expand its autonomous robot delivery service

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The COVID-19 health crisis in much of the U.S. seems likely to hasten the adoption of self-guided robots and drones for goods transportation. They require disinfection, which companies like Kiwibot, Starship Technologies, and Postmates are conducting manually with sanitation teams. But in […]

Xbox Series X will have expandable storage through custom 1 TB cards

Microsoft detailed the full Xbox Series X hardware specs on Monday, confirming the nuts and bolts of the next-gen Xbox’s CPU, GPU, RAM, and internal storage — the latter of which is a 1 TB custom NVMe solid-state drive. That drive will enable fast loading times, but it also presents an issue: 1 TB isn’t […]