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Tutor Intelligence, which makes robots for warehouses and factories, raises $75 million in a round led by a16z

Andreessen Horowitz led Tutor Intelligence's $75 million Series B, with participation from USV and Neo; the startup reaches $117 million raised. The company puts its robots to work before they are fully autonomous, with remote operators (the “tutors”) who do the job and, at the same time, generate the data to train the robotics model. There are two robots: Cassie, with one arm, for picking and palletizing cases, and Sonny, with two arms, for picking items in e-commerce. According to a16z, the robots already operate in large US manufacturing and logistics networks, are charged by the hour, and the goal is to have more than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027.