Diligent Robotics raises $30M: Diligent Robotics, a company in Austin, Texas that is building the Moxi robot designed for hospitals, has raised more than $30 million in funding. I've loved this company and its robot for years, ever since I took a … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for October 29, 2021
LEGO inspired Volvo to make a smart, modular wheel loader: Volvo Construction Equipment has built a 5-ton electric wheel loader that was inspired by a LEGO Technic model. Volvo and LEGO created a partnership back in 2018 to help design LEGO Technic … [Read more...]
How Barnacle found the right network for its tracking biz
Last week, two entrepreneurs in Atlanta launched Barnacle, a package-tracking business built on the Helium Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN). I was excited to hear this because I'm always on the lookout for use cases for LPWANs and because I host a … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for May 7, 2021
What are the real costs of using consumer tech everywhere? Consumer technology has democratized technology, taking high-cost components once used for military or rare use cases and turning them into parts for security cameras, for example. This trend … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for August 28, 2020
How to keep factory workers safe when they return to work: As I prep for my event at the end of this month on using IoT to restart the economy, I've been researching companies and organizations that are trying to build practices around safety for … [Read more...]