๐ฆพ Path Robotics raises $300M to let AI welding robots handle warping metal
Path Robotics raised a $300 million Series E led by Georgian, with the venture arms of Yamaha Motor and a major South Korean tech firm joining, at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation. Its Obsidian AI model uses lasers and cameras on the torch to watch metal parts distort under heat and adjust the weld on the fly, trained partly in simulations from a "weld world model." The company already uses it in welding cells and in Rove, a four-legged robot for shipbuilding.
โญ Skilled welders are scarce, and AI that copes with messy real-world parts is what finally makes this kind of factory work automatable.
#AI #Robotics
Path Robotics raised a $300 million Series E led by Georgian, with the venture arms of Yamaha Motor and a major South Korean tech firm joining, at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation. Its Obsidian AI model uses lasers and cameras on the torch to watch metal parts distort under heat and adjust the weld on the fly, trained partly in simulations from a "weld world model." The company already uses it in welding cells and in Rove, a four-legged robot for shipbuilding.
โญ Skilled welders are scarce, and AI that copes with messy real-world parts is what finally makes this kind of factory work automatable.
#AI #Robotics
