Mindy Support is among the companies providing data annotation services to robotics and AI developers, but each has pros and cons.

Figure Eight, an Appen company, released Workflows, which it said can make training machine learning models easier by automating the connection of data processes to human review.

Investments in robots, autonomous vehicles, and related systems totaled at least $1.3 billion in March 2019, down from $4.3 billion in February. On the other hand, automation companies reported $7.8 billion in mergers and acquisitions last month. While that may represent a slowdown, note that many businesses did not specify the amounts involved in their…