Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the end of a keynote in San Francisco.

The reveal was brief. Thrun mentioned Dulo as he closed a talk at Actuate, a robotics conference, on Tuesday. “I am not speaking about the company yet,” he told an audience of robotics founders and staff. “It’s under stealth, it’s very small. But it’s in robotics.” That was close to the whole of his public disclosure. Business Insider’s account, an exclusive by its physical-AI reporter, is the only detailed report of the venture so far.

The setting fit the news. Actuate draws robotics founders and engineers, and Thrun used the closing moments of his keynote to drop the name rather...

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