This startup wants to clean your dirty dishes and clutter to help train AI

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A person washes a mug with a cartoon lion on it over a sink as water runs.
Shift is offering limited-time free cleanings, with workers recording their tasks to train AI.

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Figure AI's CEO just raised $700 million for his next big bet

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Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock
Figure AI and Hark CEO Brett Adcock.

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Figure AI had one of its robots race an intern to sort packages. See who lost.

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Figure AI intern vs. humanoid
A Figure AI intern competes against a humanoid.

Figure AI

New crash data highlights the slow progress of Tesla's robotaxis

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Two crashes since July 2025 involved robotaxis being driven by remote operators.

Silicon Valley's latest binge-watch is a humanoid warehouse worker

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Humanoid sorting packages
Viewers gave the three humanoids sorting packages names: Bob, Frank and Gary.

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Roomba inventor Colin Angle made robots useful. Now he wants to make them lovable.

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A Familiar and a dog
Familiar Machines designed its robot as an "abstract bear."

Familiar Machines & Magic

Figure AI's robots can make a bed faster than you

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Figure CEO Brett Adcock is pictured.
Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock is betting on a future of "general-purpose humanoids."

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This former a16z partner and solo VC has backed 6 unicorns. Now he's raised $50 million to invest in hard tech

Tech Insider : Business, Style
Headshot of Zal Bilimoria
Zal Bilimoria is the sole partner at Refactor Capital.

Refactor Capital

One of iRobot's co-founders is now making weird little robot companions

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They are like pets, but without all of that pesky love.

This startup wants to build an army of humanoid robot soldiers

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Phantom robot
Phantom, a humanoid robot built by Foundation, was sent to Ukraine for a pilot demonstration of a supply pickup scenario.

Courtesy Foundation

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