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🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.35
🤖 IBM unveils 200-qubit quantum system, 📊 North America tracks cobots, 🧠 DeepMind: Humanoids ≠ only viable robot form, 📉 China-U.S. trade gap…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
‘Vintage’ Startups are Having a Moment!
The slow burners, the infrastructure builders, the quietly compounding vintage startups that have been grinding for 10, 15, even 25+ years—and are now…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.34
🤖 1930s Japan’s steel humanoid robot resurfaces in history books, 🛻 Waymo expands to San Jose, Houston, and beyond, 📉 U.S. factory output slows for…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
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The VC Industry Loves Data. But Doesn’t Use It…
— Is it why it’s ‘dying’?
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.33
🥊 Humanoid robots box live in China / 🧠 Robots gain autonomy in surgery / ⚛️ U.S. issues executive orders to revive nuclear & uranium supply / 🧱…
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May 2025

🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.32
🏭 Japan’s drone summons lightning / 🚕 Waymo’s mega-factory in Arizona / 🧍 UBTech to launch $20K humanoid / 🧬 AI clones in China / ⚛️ U.S. fusion…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.31
🏭 Foundation Humanoid hit $1B+ valuations / 🛠 Welding robots tackle high-mix factories / 🚛 Plus validates driverless trucking with zero humans…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.30
🦾 Amazon and Vulcan | 🏗 Skilled trades | 🤖 Hugging Face robotic arm | 🌐 Worldcoin in the U.S. | 🚚 Aurora’s driverless semi-trucks | 🌋 Mati Carbon…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
The world doesn’t fix itself. These startups are trying 🌍🛠️🚀
The Top 100 HardTech Startups
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC

April 2025

🇺🇸 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 2025
𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲. 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.29
🏭 Reindustrializing America with innovative financing / 🛠️ DIU scales underwater drone tech for future battles / 🤖 Nvidia starts building AI…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
🦾 HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.28
🏭 XPENG’s “AI Tech Tree” links humanoids, EVs, and flying cars, 🤖 Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics, open-sources Reachy, 🧠 DeepMind’s Gemini…
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Paulina Szyzdek / HardTech VC
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