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...]
We’re making sensors smarter — and more complicated
During the pandemic, we’ve seen major sensor vendors add more intelligence to their sensors. In 2020 Sony launched a vision sensor that can perform people tracking or object detection locally, and last year Bosch announced its BHI260AP sensor, … [Read more...]
TinyML needs a big use case. Or any use case.
What if you threw a party but half the guests of honor never showed? That was the situation at the tinyML Summit that took place in San Francisco earlier this week. Together, chip vendors, startups trying to shrink machine learning (ML) algorithms, … [Read more...]
How can we make TinyML secure? (And why we need to)
Lately, I've been reporting more and more on algorithms that parse incoming data locally in order to make some sort of decision. Last week, for example, I wrote about a company doing voice analysis locally to detect Alzheimer's. I've also covered … [Read more...]
Podcast: Smart home improvement is now a thing
This week's show starts with a healthy portion of chips, with the main course being Nvidia's reported acceptance that its deal to acquire ARM isn't likely to happen. We then turn to the U.S. Commerce Department's plans to combat the chip shortage … [Read more...]