Forgepoint raises $9.8M from Primary Venture Partners and a16z speedrun for Frank, an AI agent that handles quoting for manufacturers.

Defense industry manufacturing startup Hadrian Automation Inc. said today it has closed on a fresh capital infusion of $260 million led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Lux Capital, bringing its total...

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Vention launches GRIIP (Generalized Robotic Industrial Intelligence Pipeline), a new end-to-end physical AI pipeline for industrial automation The generalized AI pipeline demonstrated consistent, reliable pick performance, sustaining autonomous 24/7 lights-out production over three months while maintaining a throughput of up to five parts per minute GRIIP delivers a continuously evolving end-to-end pipeline spanning scene digitalization, object segmentation, pose estimation, grasp selection, and collision-free motion planning, powered by state-of-the-art foundation models from industry leaders such as NVIDIA The architecture provides adaptive, robust performance with ultra-high generalization across part shapes, surface textures, colors, lighting conditions, and manufacturing environments GRIIP enables out-of-the-box operation […]