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Tera AI comes out of stealth with $7.8M to provide visual navigation for robots


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

Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made hardware solutions that include built-in software and sensors designed for specific tasks, like estimating relative motion. But Tera AI founder and CEO Tony Zhang thinks software known as navigation for robots can overcome these obstacles — and investors just gave him $7.8 million in seed funding to prove it. “Our key unique value proposition is that we are completely hardware agnostic, which means we focus on solving general-purpose navigation in pure software form for any robot and any new environment without needing to be re-tuned every single time,” Zhang said.

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