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273 Startup Developing GPS Alternative for Physical AI Earns $1 Billion-Valuation

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Katie Roof @ The Information · 02/19/2026 10:00 EDT

Startup Developing GPS Alternative for Physical AI Earns $1 Billion-Valuation

Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars. Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other AI-powered systems: getting precise location data that helps the bots detect other people and things.ZaiNar, a Belmont, Calif.-based startup that has kept a low profile for much of its nine years, says it has develop

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