Robotics Firms Receive Early Holiday Gifts

It wasn't just consumers who used the post-Thanksgiving ‘holidays' of Black Friday and Cyber Monday to begin their holiday shopping. Investors also opened their wallets over the past week, shelling out holiday gifts in the form of funding for several robotics, automation, autonomous vehicle, and artificial intelligence startups companies. Fa la la la la!

Today, we're highlighting 27 recent robotics and AI transactions. If you've missed some other transactions from the past months, you can…