Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Thrixel announces $3 million in inception funding for structured 3D generation
- The platform produces named, separately controllable object parts for programmatic editing and interactive applications.
- Build World connects asset generation with coding agents across Unity, Unreal Engine, Three.js and Roblox; the company is engaging robotics and simulation partners.
SafeWorld emerges from stealth with $12.2 million seed funding for robot safety simulation
- BoxGroup, Carnegie Mellon University Endowment, Innovation Endeavors and SV Angel joined, alongside other venture firms and angel investors.
- The company is running early pilots with automotive OEMs, warehouse-automation businesses and medical-device manufacturers.
- Its platform generates test scenarios from incidents, standards and robot logs, then evaluates variations with reactive human motion.
Palatial releases Mad Max simulation-asset agent
- Mad Max improves dimensional accuracy, curved geometry and mesh topology for objects with moving components.
- The workflow adds grasp-affordance maps, stable contact information, PBR materials and semantic tags for manipulation training.
- Outputs can be used through Palatial's web platform, API, MCP interface and SimReady library.
Unity launches Simulation Pro for robotics in Early Access
- The package supports LiDAR, image and IMU sensor simulation and imports URDF robot descriptions with their kinematic chains.
- Simulation Pro is compatible with Unity 6.3 or newer and requires a Unity Industry license.
- The package also provides ROS 2 compatibility and a headless Linux build target for parallel simulation workloads.
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Midcentury emerges from stealth with $15M Series Seed
- The company says its egocentric dataset spans more than two million hours across over 50 environments and 20,000 tasks.
- Matrix is positioned for cloud-scale robot-policy evaluation and post-training and remains available through an early-access request programme.
- The team cites prior work across Stanford AI Lab, OpenAI, DeepMind, NVIDIA and Scale AI; the announcement did not name investors.