{"id":998277,"date":"2026-03-14T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998277"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:02:59","slug":"uber-cofounder-kalanick-launches-atoms-in-specialised-robotics-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/14\/uber-cofounder-kalanick-launches-atoms-in-specialised-robotics-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber cofounder Kalanick launches Atoms in specialised robotics push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, on Friday launched his startup, Atoms, focused on specialized industrial robotics designed to automate tasks in the mining, transport and food sectors. <\/p>\n<p>Kalanick is betting that task-specific machines are the key \u200cto improving \u2060industrial productivity. \u2060He is expanding and renaming City Storage Systems, the startup \u200bhe started building after leaving the ride-hailing giant. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gainfully employed robots are the \u200bmachines best suited for the job at hand, that can make a living doing it,&#8221; Kalanick said in a \u200bstatement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, on Friday launched his startup, Atoms, focused on specialized industrial robotics designed to automate tasks in the mining, transport and food sectors. Kalanick is betting that task-specific machines are the key \u200cto improving \u2060industrial productivity. \u2060He is expanding and renaming City Storage Systems, the startup \u200bhe started building after leaving the ride-hailing giant. &#8220;Gainfully employed robots are the \u200bmachines best suited for the job at hand, that can make a living doing it,&#8221; Kalanick said in a \u200bstatement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}