Tag: SCHAFT Inc.

Report says Schaft co-founder opened Japanese start-up fund

Schaft
According to a report from Bloomberg yesterday, Takashi Kato, co-founder of recent Google acquisition and DARPA Robotics Challenge winner Schaft Inc., has opened a fund to invest in new technology from Japanese start-ups and universities. Kato told Bloomberg that his fund, 246 Capital, plans to raise about 2 billion yen ($19 million) in the next
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What we know about the other DARPA challenge robots

RoboSimian
Last week, DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveiled Atlas, the humanoid robot that seven lucky teams won the right to program for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials in December. They will be competing against a group of teams that created their own search-and-rescue robots, which remain shrouded in considerably more mystery. As we near the competition,
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