Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their environments. Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made hardware solutions that include built-in software and sensors designed for specific tasks, like estimating relative motion. These products require complex integration and are limited to specific use cases.
As a result, most robots today cannot move between different locations, and only a small percentage of self-driving systems use AI for navigation.
But Tera AI founder and CEO Tony Zhang thinks software known as zero-shot navigation for robots can overcome these obstacles — and investors just gave him $7.8 million in seed funding to prove it.
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