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 Jan. 28, 2022
Sigfox is in receivership: Low-Power Wide-Area Network provider Sigfox has filed for the French equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has six months to find a new owner or financing. The French company started over a decade ago with a proprietary … [Read more...]
Podcast: Meet the new security standard for the smart home
This week's show kicks off with us talking about Johnson Controls buying the remaining stake it didn't hold in security company Qolsys and parallels with Google's big partnership and investment with ADT. From there Kevin and I share a bit about our … [Read more...]
Podcast: How IoT will change your sales job
This week's show kicks off with the whimper after Apple failed to give us any exciting IoT news. We discuss the scraps Apple gave us, but move to Google's new Nest Hub Max and the future of local wake word recognition thanks to a new chip. We also … [Read more...]
Gyrfalcon and a cluster of new AI chips for the edge
There is a gold rush under way, this time in chips trying to optimize for artificial intelligence. Google and Apple have both built custom silicon for the job, while an entire range of startups are trying to serve up a more efficient way of running … [Read more...]