Luxonis raises 14 million dollars to build the vision layer for physical AI

Fourteen million dollars is a rounding error next to the billion-dollar rounds elsewhere in this list, but it funds the actual cameras and vision hardware that has to exist before any warehouse or farm robot can see anything at all. Physical AI gets talked about as a software story, when really it depends on unglamorous hardware like this staying reliable and cheap at scale. Worth watching as an early bellwether for how much real industrial deployment of robotics is actually happening beneath the more visible humanoid robot headlines.