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1 month ago

Icarus raises $6.1M to take on space's "warehouse work" with embodied-AI robots | TechCrunch

Icarus Robotics cofounders Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer spent hours interviewing astronauts about what it was like working in space as they homed in on their startup idea. Their big takeaway: the work was often more cargo logistics than cutting-edge science. "We're Amazon warehouse workers with PhDs," one astronaut said. If an experiment takes two hours on station, the person continued, the first ninety minutes are spent just moving around cargo and preparing tools.
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fromSilicon Canals
5 months ago

ATMOS and ARX Robotics forge 'Space Defence Alliance' to build the world's first Orbit-to-Ground Deployment Platform - Silicon Canals

ATMOS Space Cargo partners with ARX Robotics to enhance European logistics for disaster relief and defense using autonomous systems and orbital re-entry technology.
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6 months ago

ATMOS becomes the first private European company to conduct orbital re-entry; big win for sovereign European return capacities - Silicon Canals

ATMOS Space Cargo successfully conducted its first orbital test flight of the PHOENIX 1 capsule, demonstrating innovative technology and team expertise.
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