Andreessen and USV have participated together in 9 deals since 2013, including to unicorn Coinbase and MediaChain (acquired by Spotify).
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This is breathtakingly horrible.
Are you Smarter than a retail warehouse?
Kindred Systems is working to give machines human-like intelligence. It’s designing robot “minds” to be in a constant state of learning.
Gap Inc. thinks that’s pretty cool — the company has deployed Kindred’s robotic systems in a Gap warehouse to work side-by-side with human workers.
Chinese social giant Tencent must think it’s a great idea too. The company led a $28M round into Kindred, bringing its funding to $43M.
Kindred co-founder and Chief Product Officer George Babu will join us at the A-ha! Conference December 12-13, 2017 in San Francisco. We look forward to hearing more about where he sees intelligent robots showing up next.
Save $500 off your ticket using discount code robotwarehouse.
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