Artificial Intelligence

Mind Control

By Josh Wolfe

We forget that technology even at its most useful can be alien, unnatural and awkward. Under…

The Green Screen Gets a High-Tech Makeover

Lux Capital invests in Arraiy, a computer vision and machine learning platform for special effects.

Taking powerful artificial intelligence out of the realm of Clouds and into Chips

The conventional wisdom in today’s chip startups is a bit depressing: Raise a lot of capital, achieve diminishing improvements over what’s being offered by the ever-consolidating incumbents…

Train Your Robot as Easily as You Train Your Dog

Lux Capital invests in Embodied Intelligence

Factory robots are a marvel at doing dangerous, precise, repetitive tasks, such as welding together cars, shuttling metal sheets between giant stamping presses, and placing…

PRIMER: Building Machines that Think, Read, and Write

Announcing Lux’s investment in Primer. From…

How Do We Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs? Hire More Robots.

For decades we’ve been told robots were to blame for the dearth of manufacturing jobs in the US, but that’s about to change.

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The two markets for mobility startups: today’s carmakers OR tomorrow’s robotic ride-sharing companies

Mobility and autonomous startups are exploding on the frontier-tech startup scene. Aspiring engineers are scrambling for the requisite training to join the…