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Capstan Medical raises $110M ahead of heart robot’s first-in-human procedure
- Capstan Medical Inc. has raised $110 million in a Series C round, bringing its total funding to over $150 million.
- The company is developing a robotic platform and catheter-delivered heart implants for mitral and tricuspid valve replacements.
- Capstan Medical plans to conduct its first in-human mitral valve procedure by early next year and tricuspid valve procedure in 2025.
- Eclipse, Yu Galaxy, Intuitive Ventures, and Gideon Strategic Partners participated in the Series C round.
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Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely
- Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory used a combination of vision models and large language models (LLMs) to train robots to execute open-ended tasks safely and efficiently, ensuring machines deal with uncertainties and constraints. Their trial-and-error method, Planning for Robots via Code for Continuous Constraint Satisfaction (PRoC3S), creates a simulation on-the-fly of what’s around the robot and tests long-horizon plans to ensure they satisfy all constraints, until it arrives at one that can be executed. In simulations, PRoC3S successfully executed diverse tasks such as drawing, writing, and block placement, while also applying the approach to real-world tasks on robotic arms and table surfaces.
- The MIT researchers aim to use more scalable data-search techniques and applicable to mobile robots such as a quadruped for tasks that include walking and scanning surroundings. PRoC3S could provide assistance in public care centers and other areas requiring human-robot collaboration. The research team was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, MIT Quest for Intelligence, and The AI Institute.
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Microbot Medical submits LIBERTY surgical robot to FDA for approval
- Microbot Medical has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the FDA for LIBERTY, a single-use robotic system for endovascular procedures.
- The company expects FDA clearance for LIBERTY in the second quarter of 2025.
- LIBERTY aims to redefine the peripheral endovascular space with its single-use, remote-controlled design.
- The system has the potential to lower procedure costs, increase efficiency, and improve patient care.
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Amazon Makes Strategic Expansion into AI Agents with New SF Lab
- Amazon has started a new lab in San Francisco exclusively dedicated to creating AI agents.
- AI systems need to be able to navigate the physical and digital spaces as opposed to merely processing information and generating responses.
- This lab aims to bridge the gap between understanding requests and executing complex workflows across multiple platforms and environments.
- The AI agents are expected to understand natural language and handle the technical details behind the scenes.
- The lab is led by David Luan and Pieter Abbeel.
- The team is building upon foundation models and technologies already developed by Amazon's broader AI teams.
- This laboratory focuses on creating AI systems that can understand and execute human intentions.
- The project suggests a new AI arms race to create AI systems with autonomy.
- The emergence of Amazon's lab is a larger shift in the tech industry to create autonomy in AI systems instead of raw computational power.
- The development of AI assistants will move towards creating AI teammates that can handle complex tasks across multiple platforms and services.
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The Ultimate Guide to Collaborative Robots
- Collaborative robots or cobots are revolutionizing the workplace. They are designed to work alongside humans in shared collaborative workspaces and are responsible for foundational tasks. Cobots are valued at around USD 1.9 billion and are growing at a 35.2% CAGR.
- These robots differ from industrial robots in terms of their size and flexibility, safety features, affordability, and ease of programming. Many industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, logistics, and warehousing are transforming through increased productivity due to the use of cobots.
- Cobots come with exceptional benefits, such as affordability, scalability and flexibility, improved worker satisfaction, and safety standards. They use force and torque sensors, advanced proximity sensors, and emergency stop features to ensure security.
- However, programming and integration, limited strength and speed, task complexities, and the cost barrier are some of the key challenges of adopting cobots.
- With the help of enhanced AI integration, increased use in SMEs, remote monitoring and control, and human-robot collaboration advancements, the future of cobots is promising. As AI and machine learning technologies advance, cobots will become smarter and more autonomous, making workplaces more efficient and safer.
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Dheeraj Pandey, CEO and Co-founder of DevRev – Interview Series
- DevRev is transforming customer-centric product development with its Product-Led Growth (PLG) model, leveraging data, AI, and design.
- DevRev’s platform empowers developers to directly impact business outcomes and accelerate innovation.
- Starting from scratch helped DevRev create a fundamentally different product without legacy constraints.
- DevRev integrates human insights into the heart of AI and knowledge graph to prioritize interactions that align with real customer needs.
- Building a comprehensive knowledge graph from the start was a major challenge for DevRev.
- DevRev leverages agentic AI to drive richer, more responsive interactions across the entire enterprise.
- DevRev’s knowledge graph differentiates it from traditional SaaS solutions by capturing the full journey of a product and customers' interaction with it.
- DevRev is continuously developing solutions that will help companies cut down on operational costs while achieving a more agile, customer-driven approach.
- DevRev team balances growth with the principle of ‘less is better,’ ensuring that every feature they roll out enhances the customer journey.
- DevRev aims to continue evolving with their clients and their needs while staying true to their mission of building customer-centric companies.
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Technology is an Engine of Change, but Humans Will Drive It Forward
- Customer Experience (CX) is all about how people engage with trusted brands. Technological innovation in the CX space has been disrupting the way interactions are carried out, increasing the need for a broader CX experience with each technological leap. AI should be leveraged to enhance the customer journey, personalize interactions, improve quality, reduce response times and scale operations efficiently. However, technology alone cannot drive CX forward. There must be the right balance between AI support and human empathy.
- Data and analytics play a crucial role in delivering exceptional CX. Understanding the importance of personalized interactions, companies that leverage data insights from past consumer experiences, preferences, and behaviors to personalize their services, offers hyper-customized experiences that increase satisfaction, retention, and the overall service quality. Humans bring natural skill sets—empathy, compassion, and problem-solving—that integrate seamlessly with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build trust and foster genuine connections.
- In today’s global marketplace, businesses need to provide a multilingual customer experience, or they risk losing customers. Real-time voice language translation offers a groundbreaking solution that can redefine multilingual CX. Using AI-powered neural networks, this can address cultural nuances, streamline interlaced digital and voice channels, eliminate language barriers and combine the dynamics between brands, clients, operators, and agents.
- Virtual assistants are available 24/7, and their use goes beyond automating routine tasks. They are here to elevate the level of service and team up with human empathy without replacing it, creating lasting positive impressions on customers. They free up knowledgeable personnel to focus on complicated, nuanced, and sensitive issues, responding immediately to critical customer needs with speed and accuracy.
- Integrated AI with a clear strategy is a crucial success factor in transforming CX into a strategic advantage. A continuous validation loop is required to keep AI performance aligned with intent, while regular updates are critical for mitigating risks like integration issues, bias, and data privacy concerns. Blend AI’s capabilities with the authenticity of skilled humans to make CX efficient and profoundly human.
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A Comprehensive AI Vision in Financial Services for 2025 and Beyond
- The Financial Services industry (FSI) is a space where AI has long been a reality, rather than a hype-cycle pipe dream.
- The industry is on the cusp of an AI revolution comparable to the adoption of the Internet or introduction of the smartphone.
- Every industry will understand the frustrating paralysis that comes after AI proof-of-concept projects: plenty of exciting experiments but where is the ROI?
- If the industry has a willingness to adopt AI, it also has a paramount concern for security, particularly cybersecurity and data protection holding it back.
- Responsible AI is imperative when developing and implementing an AI tool.
- Today, we are seeing some exciting AI use cases that will have industry-wide implications.
- Building a scalable, secure, and sustainable AI ecosystem demands collaboration across leadership, infrastructure, operations and development teams.
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SearchGPT’s Role in Transforming SEO and Content Marketing Strategies with AI
- SearchGPT is an AI-powered marketing tool that helps businesses understand what their audiences are searching for, and how to create content that genuinely connects.
- Unlike traditional SEO tools, SearchGPT takes a more thoughtful and holistic approach, identifying user intent and considering context to offer valuable insights.
- Its prominent features include real-time data analysis, predictive capabilities, and Natural Language Processing.
- SearchGPT shifts the focus from keywords to user intent, making SEO strategies more effective and aligned with modern search engine requirements.
- It excels in identifying intent-based opportunities in keyword optimization, improving content quality, and simplifying structured data and schema markup implementation.
- SearchGPT is also helping businesses take a more focused approach to content marketing, making it easier to connect with specific groups of people.
- It suggests ways to keep people engaged by making content more interactive and exciting, and improving storytelling.
- One of the main concerns is balancing AI automation with human creativity, and ensuring unique voice and perspective remains central to marketing strategies.
- SearchGPT presents ethical concerns around privacy and algorithmic bias, as well as exciting developments in areas such as voice search, generative AI, and omnichannel marketing.
- Overall, SearchGPT offers exciting opportunities for businesses to adapt to rapidly changing digital trends and build stronger connections through personalized, relevant, and engaging content.
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Florian Hillen, Founder & CEO of VideaHealth – Interview Series
- Florian Hillen is the Founder and CEO of VideaHealth, which is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance dental care, improve diagnostic accuracy, and support patient outcomes
- One of the biggest initial challenges was navigating uncharted regulatory terrain. When we started, the FDA did not have a clear framework for dental AI
- VideaAI enhances diagnostic accuracy and builds patient trust. Patients better understand their treatment needs, leading to earlier acceptance and improved outcomes
- VideaHealth’s AI has reduced diagnostic variability by 35% across all 10 FDA-cleared pathology indications, leveling the field between less experienced and highly seasoned practitioners
- VideaHealth’s patient-friendly visualizations have revolutionized how patients understand their oral health, directly impacting case acceptance rates
- Our WorkflowAI product automates the daily morning meeting by outlining patient-specific tasks and opportunities for care. This streamlined approach ensures no opportunities are missed, improving patient outcomes and maximizing provider efficiency
- Beyond detection, what sets us apart is our vision for using these FDA-cleared detections to streamline workflows, improve patient outcomes, and automate repetitive processes, transforming how dental care is delivered
- AI will soon set the standard for diagnostics, enabling earlier disease detection and more personalized care. Over time, automation will streamline nearly every office process, from scheduling to charting
- Expanding into Canada through our partnership with Dentalcorp is an exciting milestone. Dentalcorp’s practitioners are already reporting improved detection accuracy and increased case acceptance rates
- Our mission has always been to empower dental clinicians to deliver better care through AI. While the mission remains constant, the way we fulfill it has evolved—beyond diagnostics, we now automate administrative workflows to further support dental teams
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The Best Inference APIs for Open LLMs to Enhance Your AI App
- Groq's LPU-driven infrastructure offers speed and performance, with up to 18x faster speeds and flexible pricing options
- Perplexity Labs provides a wide range of LLM support and is an economical choice with pay-as-you-go pricing
- SambaNova Cloud’s Reconfigurable Dataflow Units achieve impressive performance with high throughput and scalability
- Cerebrium offers scalability and cost-effectiveness for serverless LLM deployment, with quick deployment and flexible hardware options
- PrivateGPT and GPT4All prioritize data privacy, allowing for local deployment with a focus on enabling models to run locally
- GPT4All simplifies local deployment by providing installers and guides for CPU-only deployments, making it accessible for a wide range of developers
- Developers can focus on building innovative AI-driven features using inference APIs without worrying about infrastructure management
- Choose based on requirements: speed with Groq, cost-efficiency with Perplexity Labs, high throughput with SambaNova Cloud, or privacy with GPT4All and Cerebrium
- Experiment with the offerings of these APIs to determine the best choice for your project
- Selecting the right inference API can significantly impact the performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of AI applications
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Vapi Secures $20M Series A to Redefine Enterprise AI Voice Agents
- Vapi has raised $20m in Series A funding which was led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
- Vapi aims to help customers seamlessly integrate AI voice agents into their workflows, services and customer interactions.
- The company has scaled to millions in revenue in just six months by serving a range of enterprises, from customer support to outbound sales and telehealth to food ordering.
- Vapi wants to empower developers so they can build AI voice agents in minutes, whilst ensuring that the technology remains accessible and reliable.
- The company also aims to provide a platform to the healthcare and telehealth, travel and hospitality, finance and insurance and retail and food services sectors.
- In particular, the company aims to help businesses scale their revenue with generative voice models that can scale to millions of calls.
- Vapi's platform is built for performance and scalability and boasts natural turn-taking, global infrastructure and sub-500ms latency.
- This will now open doors for Vapi to expand the engineering team and onboard new enterprise customers with a view to further strengthening its real-time infrastructure.
- Ultimately Vapi seeks to make voice AI as accessible and dependable as any other API in a modern developer's stack.
- With the $20m Series A in hand, Vapi aims to usher in a future where voice agents are as common and reliable as web or mobile interfaces.
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Simbe Robotics partners with Country Supplier, expands into farm supply stores
- Robotics company Simbe Robotics has partnered with Country Supplier LLC to expand into farm supply stores.
- Country Supplier plans to deploy Simbe's Tally robots in more sites under its C-A-L Ranch and Coastal Farm & Ranch brands.
- Tally robots use computer vision and AI to scan stores multiple times per day, improving on-shelf availability and price accuracy.
- Simbe also offers a Farm Supply offering and Virtual Tour to help automate inventory tasks and optimize store layouts.
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'Drones' swarm New Jersey and New York. How close are we to learning what these UAPs actually are?
- Reports of strange unidentified aircraft in northern New Jersey have surged in the past several weeks, which include reports of drones, but no one knows much more. Eyewitnesses and videos suggest that some of these drones are rotorcraft and others are fixed-wing, with some seeming to fly solo and erratically, while others operate in an orderly formation. The FBI issued a statement with the New Jersey State Police and the state's Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness seeking information related to the drone sightings. However, it is important to note that some of these sightings may be cases of mistaken identity due to poor smartphone optics.
- Many eyewitnesses have turned to local news organizations and to Enigma Labs, a New York City-based startup that crowdsources sightings and recordings of unidentified aerial phenomena. Enigma Labs has received dozens of related reports (including some with video) from users in the region in the last three weeks, with drones accounting for 16% of its U.S. submissions in that timeframe.
- Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced it was probing the matter, after a temporary FAA drone flight ban was issued over the Bedminster, New Jersey golf club owned by President-elect Donald Trump. Elect officials in Morris County, where many of the reports appear to have originated, also wrote to relevant federal agencies.
- The reports suggest some drones are as large as a car and have been seen maneuvering over major waterways, municipal reservoirs and even sensitive military facilities like the U.S. Army's Picatinny Arsenal. Other sightings have been reported in surrounding counties and as far south as Philadelphia.
- The inexplicable phenomenon occurs as new reports of drone activity around Langley Air Force Base and four U.S.-used military bases in the U.K. are also reported. Enigma Labs expects to discover patterns and figure out what is happening by crowdsourcing data and investigating together.
- Many of the photos and reported videos are unable to provide certainty given the varied quality of reporting, and some even suggest that the drones may be cases of mistaken identity.
- Despite the varied quality of the witness reports, something strange in the air over northern New Jersey cannot be ignored, especially given the response from federal and state authorities probing the matter. However, what this strange phenomenon is remains to be seen.
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ANYbotics raises $60M to expand inspection robot deployments worldwide
- ANYbotics has raised $60m in a funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures and Supernova Invest, and featuring TDK Ventures. The Swiss robotics company, which produces quadruped robots, plans to expand its US and global presence. ANYbotics offers real-time data collection in challenging environments via its autonomously driven inspection robots. It said the funding would improve its robots' graphics processing units, and boast a range of monitoring capabilities, including visual, acoustic, gas and thermal. The company has offices in Zurich and San Francisco, and its robots, produced in Switzerland with Zollner Elektronik, are already in energy, metals, mining and chemicals industries.
- Legged robots have found success in industrial facility inspections. ANYbotics AG today announced that it has raised $60 million, bringing its total funding to more than $130 million. The company said it plans to use the funding to accelerate its global and U.S. expansion.
- ANYbotics noted that it is investing in improving the performance and versatility of its ANYmal robots to deliver customer value. For instance, the company said built-in graphics processing units (GPUs) will enable faster processing and advanced AI analytics for anomaly detection and condition monitoring. This can boost operational efficiency and safety, it claimed.
- ANYbotics said its AI-driven inspection robots are advancing safety, efficiency, and sustainability in industries such as energy, metals, mining, and chemicals. The company reported that it has received large orders from global leaders.
- ANYbotics manufactures its robots in Switzerland with Zollner Elektronik AG, maintaining control of its intellectual property and the availability of high-quality components.
- Spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016, ANYbotics said its mobile robots can automate real-time data collection in challenging environments, making them suitable for routine inspections, remote operations, or predictive maintenance.
- ANYbotics said its systems and services can address labour shortages and keep workers out of harm’s way.
- ANYbotics said its AI-driven inspection robots are advancing safety, efficiency, and sustainability in industries such as energy, metals, mining, and chemicals.
- ANYbotics said it plans to expand its quadruped robot’s payload offerings, integrating sensor arrays for visual, acoustic, gas, and thermal monitoring for flexibility and precision.
- ANYmal is designed to endure the elements.
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