Travis Kalanick’s Atoms Raises $1.7B to Build a Physical AI Empire

Fifteen transport engineering posts are based in San Francisco, where Atoms requires office employees onsite five days a week.

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Atoms' 55 openings expose the build plan behind Kalanick's broad physical AI pitch, with transport hardware, robotics and machine learning centered in San Francisco.

Illustration of Travis Kalanick's Atoms: an array of autonomous vehicles, robots, and mining equipment arranged like a growing industrial empire.

Travis Kalanick (@travisk) launched a recruiting push for Atoms on Wednesday, directing his followers to a rebuilt careers site as the Uber co-founder staffs an industrial automation portfolio spanning transport, mining and food.…

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