Maven Robotics 融资1亿美元,专注工业码垛机器人
原标题:Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
AI 摘要
Maven Robotics 结束隐身状态,宣布完成由 RoboStrategy、LocalGlobe、Vine Ventures 和 XTX Markets Ventures 投资的 1 亿美元融资。该公司由前苹果特殊项目组工程师 Hamza Derbas 与兄弟 Khalid 创立,专注工业场景的轮式双臂机器人,主打混合码垛任务,目前已有多达 8 台机器人每天运行 16 小时、正常运行时间达 99% 以上。公司计划制造 250 台第三代机器人并启动第四代平台设计,其策略是逐个解决客户问题而非追逐通用模型竞赛。
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In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies about automation. Derbas talked his way into a meeting with the company and, instead of talking about his views on robots, asked to visit their factories and warehouses. “We saw how people were working; we zeroed in on flows