💵Robotics Funding Soars as Startups Aim to Expand Robots' Skills
Robotics startups have raised $6.4 billion in 2024, with increased funding for versatile robots that leverage AI to perform multiple tasks. Key players, including Physical Intelligence and Figure, received large investments, driven partly by Jeff Bezos, who has backed companies advancing adaptable robotic technology for various industries.
💵Robotics Funding Soars as Startups Aim to Expand Robots' Skills
Robotics startups have raised $6.4 billion in 2024, with increased funding for versatile robots that leverage AI to perform multiple tasks. Key players, including Physical Intelligence and Figure, received large investments, driven partly by Jeff Bezos, who has backed companies advancing adaptable robotic technology for various industries.
"For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said.
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