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Ex-Meta Scientists' Perceptron Ships Isaac 0.5 and $21M Bessemer Round for Factory Vision AI — Aug 30, 2026 — Perceptron, founded by ex-Meta FAIR scientists Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, disclosed a $21M Bessemer-led round alongside Isaac 0.5, an op...Instacart Buys Arpalus To Wire Real-Time Shelf Intelligence Into Its Physical AI Stack — Aug 4, 2026 — Instacart acquires Israeli shelf-vision startup Arpalus to give its 600,000 shoppers, Store View and Caper Carts a real-time picture of what is actual...Everseen Buys RadiusAI's Viztel To Extend Vision AI Beyond Retail Checkout — Aug 4, 2026 — Vision AI vendor Everseen acquires the Viztel portfolio from RadiusAI, folding in founder Bobby Chowdary and extending its Vision AI platform from che...Alocity Closes Series A To Build The AI Operator For Physical Spaces — Jul 31, 2026 — Alocity raised a Series A round led by a private investor group to scale Aimee, its AI Operator that unifies access control, video and workflows for e...Augmodo Bags $21M To Push Its Smartbadge Spatial AI Beyond Retail — Jul 14, 2026 — Seattle spatial AI startup Augmodo has raised $21 million led by TQ Ventures at a $350 million valuation to move its wearable Smartbadges out of groce...Vaidio 10.0 Brings Vision-Language Verification to Enterprise Camera Fleets — Jul 10, 2026 — Vaidio's version 10 platform adds VLM-powered verification via NVIDIA Cosmos, triples per-GPU throughput, and moves to a modular multi-container archi...MIT's Gleanmer Chip Gives Tiny Robots 3D Mapping on 6 Milliwatts — Jul 3, 2026 — MIT researchers have unveiled Gleanmer, a chip that lets miniature robots and battery-constrained devices build real-time 3D maps of their surrounding...Luxonis Raises $14M Series A to Scale OAK Cameras for Physical AI — Jul 3, 2026 — Denver-based Luxonis closed a $14 million Series A led by Denali Growth Partners to scale production of its OAK 4 spatial AI cameras and expand the pe...TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Scale Video AI — Jul 2, 2026 — Video understanding startup TwelveLabs raised a $100 million Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, bringing total funding to $207 million.SE3 Labs Exits Stealth With Bundeswehr Drone-Swarm Spatial AI — Jun 27, 2026 — Munich's SE3 Labs emerged from stealth with GPS-denied spatial AI that lets one operator command mixed drone and ground-robot swarms, and with active...Orbbec Brings AI-Powered 3D Vision to Automate 2026 — Jun 27, 2026 — Orbbec showcased industrial-grade 3D cameras and edge-AI depth perception at Automate 2026, partnering with Ant Group's Robbyant to sharpen robot mani...Sony and TSMC Partner on Next-Gen AI Image Sensors — Jun 23, 2026 — Sony and TSMC have signed an MoU to co-develop next-generation AI image sensors aimed at robotics and autonomous systems.RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots — Jun 22, 2026 — The Intel spinout's new D585 Pro packs a Gen 5 system-on-chip and delivers more than twice the depth quality of the previous RealSense generation for...Google DeepMind, Oxford and UCL Win CVPR 2026 Best Paper With D4RT 4D Model — Jun 11, 2026 — D4RT, a unified 4D scene-reconstruction model from Google DeepMind, Oxford and UCL, has won the CVPR 2026 Best Paper Award, signalling computer vision...Visionary.ai Wins Edge AI Product Of The Year, Runs Live On Snapdragon Gen 4 — Jun 4, 2026 — Israeli edge-AI specialist Visionary.ai has been named the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year in cameras and sensors, while its neural image...CVPR 2026 Opens in Denver With 4,089 Accepted Papers and Record AI Submissions — Jun 3, 2026 — The flagship computer-vision conference runs June 3-7 in Denver after a record 16,092 paper submissions, with vision-language and embodied AI dominati...Ai2 Releases MolmoAct 2 Open Robotics Foundation Model — Jun 2, 2026 — The Allen Institute for AI released MolmoAct 2, a fully open robotics foundation model that runs 37x faster than its predecessor and outperforms Physi...Rebar Raises $14M Series A for Computer Vision in Construction — Jun 1, 2026 — Rebar has raised $14 million in Series A funding for computer-vision software that reads construction blueprints to automate take-offs, cutting quote...Bone AI Raises $12M Series A for Autonomous Naval Drones — Jun 1, 2026 — Bone AI has raised $12 million in Series A funding to scale its autonomous surface vessels and underwater drones, which use computer vision to detect...Niantic Spatial, Spexi Team to Turn Drone Imagery Into City-Scale 3D for Physical AI — May 31, 2026 — Niantic Spatial and Spexi Geospatial have struck a partnership pairing Spexi's 10,000-pilot drone network with Niantic's Reconstruction API to deliver...