
Three Startups Raise Funding for AI in Robotics, Energy and Property Management
Dream Labs, Linkener and Vessla closed rounds across the US and Europe to apply artificial intelligence to robots, business energy use and real estate operations.
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Three technology startups on different sides of the Atlantic have announced new funding rounds, each tied to artificial intelligence applications.
Dream Labs builds AI for robots
Dream Labs, a San Francisco startup, has raised $90 million in seed funding to develop artificial intelligence for everyday robots, according to Ventureburn. Founded in 2026 by former leaders of NVIDIA's GR00T robotics research, the company says robots are often trained for a single task and struggle to apply learned skills elsewhere. It aims to use a common AI model to make robots more flexible, so that performing new tasks or operating new machines requires less expertise. Chief executive Joel Jang said the industry has capable hardware but lacks intelligence that works across different robots.
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