'I never left': Travis Kalanick launches new company Atoms

Travis Kalanick launches Atoms, a new venture aiming to build a "wheelbase for robots." REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Travis Kalanick launches Atoms, a new venture aiming to build a "wheelbase for robots." Atoms wants to build a platform for specialized industrial robots, not humanoid designs. Atoms is acquiring Pronto, an autonomous vehicle startup founded by Anthony Levandowski. The former Uber CEO is venturing into robotics. Travis Kalanick announced that Atoms is out of stealth mode and expandin...