Tera AI comes out of stealth with $7.8M to provide visual navigation for robots

Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their environments. Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made hardware solutions that include built-in software and sensors designed for specific tasks, like estimating relative motion. These products require complex integration and are limited to specific use cases. As a result, most robots today cannot move between different locations, and only a small percentage of self-driving systems use AI for navigation. But Tera AI founder and CEO Tony Zhang thinks software known as zero-shot navigation for robots can overcome these obstacles — and investors just gave him $7.8 million in seed funding to prove it. At a high level, Tera AI is building a spatial reasoning AI system to provide affordable visual navigation for autonomous robots. This technology is used in various applications, includi ... Read full article.