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General Robotics, 9840 Willows Road Northeast, Suite 101, a software startup founded by former Microsoft researchers says its platform can now handle much of the work of getting a robot up and running in a factory, warehouse or other industrial setting, a job that used to take a team of engineers. General Robotics said Wednesday that advances in GRID, its robot intelligence platform, have cut the process of onboarding a new robot from about a month to as little as two hours. The company calls the approach “Auto Engineering,” with each onboarded robot and diagnosed failure feeding back into the system and speeding up the next deployment. “Before this moment, it would take us a team of experts to go and execute on behalf of our customers,” said General Robotics CEO and co-founder Ashish Kapoor in an interview. “Clearly non-scalable, clearly very expensive, and clearly will take a long time.” With Auto Engineering, he said, “we can magnify and accelerate each engineer’s capability.” Founded in 2023, the company has grown to about 50 employees, primarily engineers. It has raised nearly $34 million, most recently in an April round led by Construct Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Accenture Ventures, Nvidia and Valo Ventures. PitchBook put the size of the round at $25 million; the companies didn’t disclose terms at the time. Kapoor said General Robotics has roughly a dozen customers — large enterprises across manufacturing, logistics, energy and defense — and revenue in the millions of dollars. Customers include HTX, the science and technology agency of Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs, which Kapoor said has been working with General Robotics for about a year and a half. The company’s platform works with robot types including industrial arms, humanoids, quadrupeds, wheeled robots and drones, according to the company. General Robotics is operating in a competitive and well-funded sector. Physical Intelligence, which builds foundation models for robots, has raised more than $2 billion. Nvidia — an investor in General Robotics, and the maker of the Isaac Sim simulation software built into GRID — is developing its own robot models and deployment tools. Robot makers build good hardware, Kapoor said, but often lack the expertise to put it to work in a specific setting like a shipping terminal. “That last layer is missing.” Before co-founding the company, Kapoor spent 17 years at Microsoft, ultimately as general manager of its autonomous systems and robotics research group in Redmond, where he created the open-source drone simulator AirSim. General Robotics co-founders Sai Vemprala (CTO) and Shuhang Chen came from the same Microsoft team. GeekWire covered the launch in 2023, when it was Scaled Foundations and billed itself as “ChatGPT for robots.” It had five employees at the time, focused on aerial robotics and drones, with backing from Khosla and E14 Fund. It later renamed itself General Robotics.

We just moved here a month and a half ago, and tonight, on September 9th, we keep hearing fireworks and see possible drones in the sky. Is there a celebration that we don't know of? I kind of thought at first it was September 11th but that's still 2 days away, and then I thought it was Labor Day but that was 2 days ago, I can't think of any reason why there would be fireworks. My wife and I are so confused and curious, please shed light on the situation 😂

It is Wednesday September 9th, why are people setting off mortars and fireworks? There were some booms near Westwood earlier today, now booms and flashes and multi-stage fireworks visible over the trees. What is going on???

¡Hola! Soy español y ando por la zona de Kirkland/Seattle. ¿Hay algún español o española por aquí? Me gustaría conocer gente y hacer algún plan de vez en cuando 🇪🇸

Unfortunately according to Jason rantz website this was a bad labor day weekend for seattle city limits. There were multiple shootings in belltown, a shooting in bitter lake and multiple bsuinesses were broken into on capital hill, poineer sqaure and downtown seattle. This is very very sad and unacceptable to me and others!! This is why i moved from northgate seattle in June 2026 to kenmore,Washington. For 11 years I lived in northgate seattle. Capital hill,ballard, fremont, downtown seattle was my stomping ground for years!! Im also upset about what happened at Bite of seattle this summer!! Seattle which is the city I fell in love with in 2014 and 2013 just isn't the same anymore. Also Jason rantz talks about cars during daylight hours being broken into for parts. These car thefts are happening in capital hill, ballard, wallingford and downtown seattle. Even though i drive and own a car im now afraid for safety reasons to go anywhere in seattle city limits. The king county metro busses and link light rail is dangerious these days with riders getting their cell phones stolen Unfortunately. And full of drug addicts!! Now a days besides kenmore I drive to edmonds, lynnwood, bellevue, kirkland and redmond and woodenville. It would be nice to see city of seattle leadership clean up the city and make it a safe and clean city that we all can enjoy.

Does anyone have any information on what happened at Decatur between a para educator and a student? I saw a post about it on instagram and I'm super nosy.

Have there been sightings of this guy recently? Did some Phinny Ridge wizard turn him into a raccoon with a short spine?

Redmond-based Kymeta Corp., which makes flat-panel satellite terminals, has received a $20-million order from the U.S. Department of Defense for more than 100 Kymeta Osprey u8 terminals, packaged with multiorbit connectivity services on its global Kymeta Broadband network, the company announced last week. Kymeta said the order, for a military branch it could not name for security reasons, builds on its position as the most widely adopted provider of multiorbit flat-panel antennas to branches across the Defense Department for myriad operational requirements. With the latest order, Kymeta this year has delivered more than $30 million in terminals and connectivity services to the unnamed military branch, the company said in a news release. Equipped with Kymeta Broadband services that provide geostationary orbit and low Earth orbit connectivity, Kymeta said it has delivered more than 100 Osprey u8 terminals capable of seamlessly switching between transmission security and non-transmission security networks. Geostationary orbit is 22,236 miles above Earth and low Earth orbit ranges from an altitude of about 186 to 1,243 miles, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Kymeta’s solutions support what it calls a PACE — Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency — communications approach, giving military users flexible connectivity options designed to enhance communications resilience and operational continuity. Kymeta is shifting to what it calls AutoPACE, removing the need for manual switching between connectivity sources through its intelligent communications platform, according to its release. “This order is an affirmation from the military community that Kymeta can deliver on its promise to provide dependable connectivity for mission-critical operations,” Kymeta CEO Manny Mora said in the release. “With our partners across national security, we are continuing to build steady and solid momentum as a trusted and valued partner.” Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 and also has a manufacturing office in Woodinville, is part of a growing group of Eastside companies working in the space sector.

Went into the city so much while the weather was still bright and blue this summer! Shot on an iPhone 14+

I know the police cracked down in various places, so I'm not expecting much, but are there any outdoor taco places open nearby? I'm craving street tacos...