Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware
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$32M into Antioch is a bet that cloud simulation becomes the default pre-flight for robots, drones, and other physical AI. If you’re building autonomy, budget more for sim tooling and scenario coverage—hardware time is now the expensive, late-stage validation, not the primary test bed.
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