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Amazon It’s official. After years of development announcements, Amazon will be rolling out delivery by drone for Prime customers in areas of California and Texas. While that’s a small slice of customers, for now, this news couldn’t be more important for the commercial drone sector, which has been gathering tons of momentum over the last […] More
Esper Bionics If you wear glasses, you may have realized your visual deficit can also be an unexpected style boon. Thanks to a company combining wearable robotics with stunning (and newly award-winning) design, the same is becoming true for prosthetics. Esper Bionics, a New York-based startup that develops human enhancement devices, was recently given a Red […] More
NDLA A new partnership aims to take a big bite out of the scourge of single-use plastic. With the help of some robots and economies of scale, it’s a positive step in a problem that seems wholly intractable. Compostable packaging company Zume, which has innovated the manufacture of high output molded fiber packaging using robots, is […] More
Image: photoworldwide/ Getty Images There’s been a flurry of fundraising around companies seeking to help computers understand natural language. It could presage a change in the way we use and experience language and the written word. As we covered this summer, speech recognition company Speechmatics raised over $60M toward its ambition of global language comprehension. […] More
A Serve Robotics autonomous vehicle delivers takeout in Southern California. Serve Robotics Last year we predicted that 2022 would be the year that AI and robotics took over the quick-serve pizza sector. A new collaboration between a robotic pizzeria and a fleet of delivery robots is the latest example of that prediction coming to life […] More
Cionic A new mobility sleeve under development and out of stealth promises a compelling solution for those suffering a variety of mobility issues. Combining two critical signal technologies to both monitor and stimulate the neuromuscular system, the sleeve is on the cutting edge of lightweight next-gen mobility devices. Artificial Intelligence A Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur […] More
Airobotics The commercial drone industry is consolidating in advance of loosening regulations and is on the precipice of widespread global adoption in a variety of sectors. The latest example comes as commercial drone company American Robotics, Inc. and its parent Ondas Holdings Inc. have agreed to acquire Israeli drone company AIROBOTICS Ltd. in a major deal that consolidates each company’s technologies. […] More
Shutterstock A speech recognition startup just landed $62 million in Series B funding. How will the money be used? In a quest to enable a computer to understand every voice in the world. If that doesn’t strike you as hugely ambitious you haven’t spent enough time trying to get Siri to compose a text message. […] More
