I spent last week in Boston, meeting with several of the area’s top automation startups. Soft Robotics — based in nearby Bedford, Massachusetts — is one of those names that […]
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Back to news homeHow the FirstBuild product co-creation studio is changing how new things are made
Crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and small-batch production for the win Haje Jan Kamps 19 hours If you are running R&D at a large appliance manufacturer, you have a challenge. You typically make […]
Amazon eyes devices group as it undertakes broad cost cutting
The Echo business has always looked like Amazon playing the long game from the outside. Above all, the company’s home consumer hardware is a convenient vessel for getting Alexa into […]
Facing economic headwinds, Amazon consolidates robotic projects
Westborough, Massachusetts is a quiet town of 22,000, 40 minutes by car southeast of Boston. BOS27 is among the town’s newer residents. The 350,000-square-foot Amazon facility opened its doors a […]
Apple limits AirDrop ‘everyone’ option to 10 minutes in China
A change in the iOS 16.1.1 update for Chinese users is turning some heads. Apple is restricting the “Everyone” option in AirDrop to ten minutes on iPhones purchased in mainland […]
I guess you can (officially) use your fancy Canon camera as a webcam studio now
When the pandemic slammed into our shores a couple of years ago, many of us were shoo-ed inside, doomed to endless Zoom meetings. At the time, Canon released a beta […]
Nvidia touts a slower chip for China to avoid US ban
Two months after the U.S. choke off China’s access to two of Nvidia’s high-end microchips, the American semiconductor design giant unveiled a substitute with a reduced processing speed for its […]
Apple warns of lower iPhone 14 Pro models shipment due to Covid-19 restrictions
Apple warned investors and customers on Sunday that it expects to ship fewer iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max units as the world’s most valuable tech firm grapples […]
FlowForge nabs $7.2M to help companies integrate IoT using Node-RED
A new company from one of the original creators of the open source Node-RED project is setting out to make it easier for companies to bridge the gap between incompatible […]
DJI’s latest Mavic drone starts at $1,469
Affordability is fairly malleable concept when it comes to consumer drones. We’ve seen plenty of systems positioned as affordable – or even cheap – over the years, but lowering the […]