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RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots
Notably, RLWRLD has attracted a long list of big strategic investors — Ana Group, PKSHA, Mitsui Chemical, Shimadzu and KDDI from Japan; LG Electronics and SK Telecom from Korea; and Amber Manufacturing from India. He spoke with over 30 AI professors from Korea and Japan about their challenges — everything from the lack of infrastructure like data and GPUs, and the obstacles that discouraged them to launch a venture — and the opportunities available. “I determined that it would be strategically beneficial to prioritize robotics foundation models (RFM) over the technologically saturated field of LLMs, capitalizing on Korea and Japan’s notable global strengths in manufacturing,” he said.
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