Robotics and "physical SI" companies have raised about $48 billion so far this year, FT reports
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Robots are being taught from recordings of how people work, and tens of billions of dollars have already gone into this race.
According to PitchBook data as relayed by the Financial Times (via Techmeme's brief summary; the FT text is paywalled), robotics and "physical SI" companies have raised about $48 billion since the start of the year. To fill a shortage of training material, developers, as the FT writes, are putting cameras in factories, offices and homes and recording people performing tasks.
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