Nvidia says Isaac Sim, a robotics simulation service, is coming soon, and it expands its Jetson system-on-modules lineup with Orin Nano for low-powered robots (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Ambi Robotics, which is developing AI-powered robots for warehouses, raised $32M led by Tiger Global and Bow Capital, bringing its total funding to $67M  —  Ambi Robotics, a startup developing supply chain automation hardware, today announced that it raised $32 million in additional funding led …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Stockholm-based Mavenoid, which offers human- and AI-enabled product support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised a $30M Series B  —  Mavenoid, a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies …

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia unveils its first SaaS and IaaS offering, Omniverse Cloud, a services suite for artists, developers, and enterprise teams to build and run metaverse apps  —  Nvidia today announced its first software- and infrastructure-as-a-service offering — Nvidia Omniverse Cloud …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare announces Zero Trust SIM, a US-only, device-specific eSIM for iOS and Android that uses VPNs and DNS filtering, and Zero Trust for Mobile Operators  —  Are smartphones ever entirely secure?  It depends on one’s definition of “secure,” particularly when dealing with corporate environments.

Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report:
AMP Robotics, which creates robotics systems that use AI to sort recyclable materials, raised a $91M Series C, bringing its total raised to $165.5M  —  AMP Robotics, a company creating robots that can organize recycling, brought in $91 million in corporate equity in a Series C funding round.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Intel, Arm, and Nvidia propose a new open, license-free specification with 8-bit floating point, or FP8, precision as a common interchange format for AI  —  In pursuit of faster and more efficient AI system development, Intel, Arm and Nvidia today published a draft specification for what they refer …