John Deere acquires its second robotics startup: Farm equipment maker John Deere has acquired Bear Flag Robotics in a deal valued at $250 million. Bear Flag focuses on autonomous driving for farming equipment, a function that Deere has also been … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for June 11, 2021
Bosch opened a fully connected chip-making plant: Bosch, an industrial giant that also makes specialty sensors and chips for automotive and industrial use cases, has opened a new 300 millimeter chip-making plant in Dresden, Germany. Bosch made a big … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 23, 2021
SmartRent goes public via a SPAC: Property tech is hot hot hot in the public markets as SmartRent, a company that provides software and hardware to building owners to make their apartments smart, goes public via a special purpose acquisition company, … [Read more...]
Privacy and new functions will make TinyML big
Privacy and smart features that don't depend on an app will likely drive the adoption of machine learning (ML) on constrained edge devices going forward. That was the message Zach Shelby, CEO of Edge Impulse, and I tried to convey when we sat on a … [Read more...]
Podcast: Chipageddon and deets on the Pi Pico
Silicon is the theme of this week's show, starting with a rundown on the chip shortage affecting the automotive and IoT world. Then we talk about the Los Angles Police Department requesting footage from connected doorbell cameras during the Black … [Read more...]