Austin-based robotics company Diligent Robotics has secured $3 million in seed funding, according to company database Crunchbase, topping the city's recent funding headlines. The cash infusion was announced Oct. 1 and led by Ubiquity Ventures. According to its Crunchbase profile, "Diligent Robotics [creates] robot assistants that assist people with chores... Moxi is our hospital robot assistant that helps clinical teams with their routine, non-patient facing tasks so they have more time for patient care." The three-year-old startup has raised two previous funding rounds, including a $2.1 million seed round in 2018. The round brings total funding raised by Austin companies in artificial intelligence over the past month to $35 million.

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"Sales and revenue generation are as a result of human interaction; it is that human interaction that is changing" – when asked to keynote speeches on the subject of technology in sales and marketing this is often a quote that gets a lot of heads nodding- it is very pertinent in this discussion too. This is due to the fact that I believe, ultimately, there will be little human interaction in certain real estate transactions in the future; some and future being the key points. Could there really be a possibility that artificial intelligence and real estate could work together? Which elements and when are pivotal to the debate and I hope to cover a few here. Ultimately it is my belief that in the near future the real estate industry could be automated and run algorithmically. However, it is important, from the outset to distinguish between automation and the more challenging theory of machine learning which is a term often used to describe Artificial Intelligence.