Bright Machines vs Carbon Robotics
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SF intelligent manufacturing with Microfactory robotic cells and Brightware AI software; $400M+ total ($126M BlackRock/NVIDIA/Microsoft Series C Jun 2024) from Autodesk co-CEO co-founder competing with Covariant for AI-driven flexible factory auto...
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Bright Machines is a San Francisco, California-based intelligent manufacturing automation company — backed with $400+ million in total funding including a $126 million Series C in June 2024 led by BlackRock with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Eclipse Ventures, and Jabil — providing discrete manufacturers in electronics, industrial, and consumer goods sectors with a full-stack automation solution combining Microfactory robotic cells (reconfigurable hardware for assembly, inspection, and testing) with the Brightware intelligent software platform that uses AI and computer vision to enable flexible, self-adapting automation lines that can be reconfigured between products within hours rather than weeks. Founded in 2018 by co-CEO Amar Hanspal (former co-CEO and Chief Product Officer at Autodesk, the $36 billion design software company) and other founding team members with Autodesk and manufacturing automation backgrounds.
Seattle precision ag laser weeding robot in 14 countries eliminating 10B+ weeds; $177M total ($70M Series D 2024 + $20M Series D-2 Giant Ventures) with LPM trained on 40M+ plants competing with Blue River Technology for herbicide-free precision we...
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Carbon Robotics is a Seattle, Washington-based precision agriculture robotics company — backed with $177 million in total funding including a $70 million Series D in 2024 and a $20 million Series D-2 extension led by Giant Ventures — providing specialty crop farmers with the LaserWeeder: the world's first commercial AI-powered laser weeding robot that eliminates weeds using high-powered lasers guided by computer vision without chemical herbicides or manual labor. Operating in 14 countries across North America, Europe, and Australia, owned and operated by 100+ growers, with 10+ billion weeds eliminated since 2022, Carbon Robotics' Large Plant Model (LPM) — trained on 40+ million labeled plants from three continents — enables real-time identification and precision destruction of weeds growing between crop rows. Named to the 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 and TIME's Top GreenTech Companies of 2024. Founded in 2018 by Paul Mikesell in Seattle.
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