Honda said on Tuesday it is spending $700 million to retool three of its Ohio plants to build electric vehicles as it aims to phase out gas engines by 2040. Batteries for the electric vehicles from Honda and its Acura division will be supplied by a joint venture with LG Energy Solutions. The automaker confirmed […]
Honda to create $700M EV hub in Ohio by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch
“What a lot of people tell me is ‘hardware is hard,’” Eliot Horowitz explains. “I have a really big problem with that statement.” The Viam Robotics CEO and MongoDB co-founder describes purchasing a Universal Robotics’ UR5 robot arm and programming it to play chess. “I don’t think hardware is hard. I think hardware is not […]
Viam rolls out a free beta of its cloud-based robotics tools by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
The last bull market created a new wave of investors as more and more people decided to make their first foray into the markets. Step, a digital banking service geared toward teens and young adults, is one of the many companies that set out to make money by serving those new investors. And although fates […]
Charli D’Amelio-endorsed fintech Step borrows $300M to bring crypto to teens by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch
In the past year, over 100,000 women in Colombia and Mexico have sold 2 million orders and earned millions of dollars on Elenas’ platform.
Social commerce startup Elenas secures $20M to help more LatAm women sell online by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Foxglove, a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxglove’s total raised to $18.7 million, which CEO Adrian Macneil says is being put […]
Foxglove raises $16M to build dev infrastructure for robots by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Large-scale data analytics has transformed the business world in recent years. Earthmover aims to bring it to climate tech.
Earthmover to bring petascale data tools to climate tech with $1.7M pre-seed by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch