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When marketers Paul Benigeri and Geoffrey Woo were at their former companies, in food tech and e-commerce infrastructure, respectively, they experienced how manual and repetitive digital marketing workflows were, especially as the number of disparate and unintegrated marketing tools grew. With the

As the world's population ages, more is being learned about brain health as startups leverage technology to find a way to slow down cognitive impairment. BrainCheck, a Houston- and Austin-based company developing cognitive healthcare software to aid physicians in detecting and managing this typ

German medical device maker Ottobock today announced that it has entered into a deal to acquire Bay Area-based exoskeleton startup SuitX. The deal is one that makes sense for Ottobock, which builds its own exoskeletons, along with prosthetics and orthotics. SuitX is a spinout from UC Berkeley's

Iron Ox today announced the launch of the crop-assisting mobile robot Grover. According to the Bay Area-based indoor farming firm, the mobile robot is capable of lifting and moving up to 1,000 pounds of payload. The primary cargo is a 6×6-foot module that houses hydroponically fed produce. The

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the world’s supply chains for a number of reasons — from a lack of raw material to labor shortages — but whatever the reason, the problems are persisting, and Microsoft has decided to bring to bear its considerable resources on modernizing supply

ByteDance has long been celebrated as an “app factory” for its proven model of churning out apps and monetizing them through a robust back end of shared resources, from engineering to marketing support. The result is a rank of household apps — Douyin and Toutiao in China and TikTo

According to Facebook AI Research, the next generation of robots should be much better at feeling — not emotions, of course, but using the sense of touch. And to advance the ball in this relatively new area of AI and robotics research, the company and its partners have built a new kind of electro

OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised an $85 million Series C round led by Tiger Global Management. Previous investors Addition, Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners also participated in thi

While studying engineering at Stanford, Alex Kolchinski, Alex Gruebele and Max Perham met and bonded around the lack of food options on campus and the cost of the options that were there. “Even on a subsidized meal plan, it would cost $10 for lunch and more for dinner,” Kolchinski told TechCrun

Zeit Medical, which makes an early warning system for strokes during sleep, has raised $2 million in a seed round just after leaving Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort. The company’s work suggests the brain-monitoring headband could save lives by alerting people to possible strokes hours

Spot works hard and plays hard. In its latest video, Boston Dynamics' quadrupedal workhorse invokes the Jagger swagger in tribute to the 40th anniversary of The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You album. “Spot Me Up” finds a quartet of Spot robots doing their best to mimic the 1981 “Start Me U

You'll have to forgive me, I've been thinking a lot about farming — specifically what it might look like in the future. This is largely due to the recent publication of my Bowery Farming TC-1. It's a 12,000-word feature that really took me down the vertical-farming rabbit hole. As

Tokyo space startup Gitai Japan successfully conducted a technology demonstration of its autonomous robotic arm inside the International Space Station last week, a key milestone as the company prepares to provide robotics as a service in space. The S1 robotic arm performed two tasks: operating cabl

One of the highlights of Adobe’s annual MAX conference is its so-called “Sneaks” session, where the company shows off some of its most cutting-edge research projects. Some of these make it into the mainline Creative Cloud apps and some simply remain cool demos. At this year’