“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
Mark Zuckerberg will make his impassioned pleas that the metaverse is a real thing and a valid Next Big Business for Meta (neé The Facebook) on Tuesday. The annual Meta Connect developer conference kicks off with a keynote starting at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT, which is followed immediately by a more technical […]
How to watch Meta Connect’s 2022 Keynote (hint: Facebook) by Darrell Etherington 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