Pune-Based Robotics Startup Goes Viral - Indian Startup News 201

Checkout OODO here: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notion Dashboard: This week funding: Funding chart: #gid=0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 00:00 Muks Robotics showcases their robot dog at the IIT Kanpur 03:13 Zomato’s pure veg mode 05:39 Sponsor segment 07:02 India takes back AI advisory 07:46 Third Wave Coffee gets a new CEO 08:59 Minus Zero partners with Ashok Leyland to develop self-driving trucks 09:47 Funding news ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Muks Robotics showcases their robot dog at the IIT Kanpur’s tech festival TechKirti 2024: 1. The robot dog you see in this video was made by a Pune-based AI robotics startup Muks Robotics and their robot dog is called Guardeo. 2. But as much as the company received praise for their innovation, there were also people who were criticising them and calling Guardeo a copy of Boston Dynamics. 3. You can check out Unitree’s Go2 and see for yourself. But if you go to Muks Robotics company website - the first thing you’ll notice is this statement “We design and manufacture AI-powered general purpose robots”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zomato’s pure veg mode: 1. Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal took to X to announce Zomato’s latest feature - Pure Veg Mode. 2. India has the world’s largest percentage of vegetarians who are especially particular about how their food is cooked and who handles it. 3. Once a user selects this “Pure Veg Mode”, they will only be shown restaurants that serve just vegetarian food and on top of that, their delivery will be handled by a fleet that will only deliver vegetarian food. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ India takes back AI advisory: 1. Last week, the Indian government sent out an advisory that asked “significant” tech companies to seek permission from the government before deploying their AI models. 2. It looks like the government has taken the concerns of the AI entrepreneurs into account and decided to rollback that decision. 3. Now, companies don’t need to take any permission from the government before rolling out there AI models but they are still advised to label the content generated through these AI models as undertested or unreliable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Third Wave Coffee gets a new CEO: 1. Their Co-founder and CEO Sushant Goel has decided to step down from his position as the CEO to become a board member, leaving the reigns of the company to Rajat Luthra. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minus Zero partners with Ashok Leyland to develop self-driving trucks: 1. Indian autonomous vehicle maker Minus Zero have already demonstrated their autonomous technology by making India’s first autonomous vehicle called zPod. 2. Now, they’ve partnered with India’s second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland to use their technology platform to build autonomous trucking solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Funding news: 1. Indian startups raised a total of 215 million dollars. 2. Gurugram-based audio streaming platform Pocket FM, which has raised 103 million dollars in their series D round. 3. Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Ultrahuman has raised 35 million dollars in their Series B round. 4. Delhi-based beauty and personal care-focused e-commerce platform The Good Glamm Group raised 30 million dollars. 5. Bengaluru-based B2B e-commerce platform Jumbotail, which has raised 18.2 million dollars in their series C round. 6. Hyderabad-based gaming studio Liquidnitro Games, which has raised million dollars in their seed round. 7. Bengaluru-based AI music creation platform has raised 1.3 million dollars in their pre-series A round. 8. Bengaluru-based child-focused audio content platform Vobble has raised 1 million dollars in their seed round.