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JANUARY 7, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

For fifty-four years, big and small hardware manufacturers that hoped to reach their target audiences rolled out new products at the Consumer Electronics Show. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies. “The weeks following CES have traditionally been a desert for hardware news.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In a list mostly filled with financial backers, there is one interesting strategic name: Gadowski is the founder and chairman of Delivery Hero, a big player in online food delivery around the world using land-based transportation. There are many, many companies making drones today, so much so that you could argue it has become commoditized.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Lidar, the light detection and ranging radar that measures distance using laser light to generate a highly accurate 3D map of the world around the car, is considered a critical piece of hardware to deploy automated vehicle technology safely and at scale. Daimler Trucks buys a majority stake in self-driving tech company Torc Robotics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

stake in the three-year-old startup, whereas 42dot’s co-founder and chief executive Chang-Hyeon Song, who interestingly also leads the transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) team at Hyundai Motor, held a 36.19% stake as of December 2021, according to 42dot’s regulatory filing. Hyundai currently owns a 20.4%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. million Series A in February 2021. . and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Tive , a Boston-based startup, is building a hardware and software platform to help track the conditions of a shipment like say food or medicine to make sure it is stored under the proper conditions as it moves from farm or factory to market. Tive hardware tracker and data tracking software. Image Credit: Tive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

But Motto doesn’t want to stop at hardware. More importantly, the startup competes with public transportation, bike-sharing schemes and buying your own electric bike. And many people should consider services like Motto to add an electric bike to their personal transportation mix.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Ottopia’s software is combined with off-the-shelf hardware components like monitors and cameras to create a teleoperations center. “The motivation is really simple — it’s simple but it’s hard to do — and that’s to make affordable autonomous transportation closer to reality,” Rosenzweig said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But raising a Series B for a hardware startup can be even tougher. If they are small enough to transport, bring them with you to the pitch meeting. So when you pitch VCs on your automation company, it pays to demonstrate your robots in action.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Palella said: “Through this transaction, we’re committed to fulfilling our vision in revolutionizing transport by using micromobility to become a seamless last-mile solution.”. Helbiz says the merged entity will have a valuation of $408 million, and by run Helbiz’s existing management under CEO Salvatore Palella.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Einride founder and CEO Robert Falck told TechCrunch a year ago that he felt a moral obligation to create a greener mode of freight transport after spending years building heavy-duty diesel trucks at Volvo GTO Powertrain.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“Our goal is to make sure we have enough capital to achieve our mission, which is to build a transportation alternative that is shared, that is affordable, that is green,” said Ting. “We mean business when we talk about decarbonization and transportation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Startups are hard work, but the complexities of global supply chains can make running hardware companies especially difficult. Instead of existing within a codebase behind a screen, the key components of your hardware product can be scattered around the world, subject to the volatility of the global economy. Overorder critical parts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. This has been costly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Hardware and software for apartment buildings? In that SPACs will not become the chariots that help transport enough unicorns across the private-public market divide and begin to cut down on the rising number of pricey former startups collecting by the exits of Startup Land. The mess is not sector-specific. Not a good SPAC target.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

That’s why Liu’s AI chipmaking startup Kneron has been quietly racking up investments to march into smart transportation. The startup’s chips are “reconfigurable”, meaning they combine the flexibility of software and the high speed of the hardware. at the moment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

“Industrial autonomy for off-road refineries, ports and airports happens on the way to on-road autonomy,” he said, with the focus firmly remaining on providing software that can be used with different hardware. Our point is to be agnostic, to make sure it works on any hardware platform.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

Aurora and automotive supplier Continental have wrapped up the first phase of a more than $300 million project to mass produce autonomous vehicle hardware for commercial self-driving trucks. The two companies said Friday that the design and system architecture of an autonomous vehicle hardware kit is now complete.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

It uses 95% less water, has less impact on soil and the urban farms can be placed in food deserts or close to grocers to cut down on transportation costs. Beyond selling the hardware, Just Vertical offers a subscription model for its seeds and peat moss pods. . Industry leader AeroFarms announced it’s going public sometime this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

It also ostensibly helps to avoid vehicle crashes, like the one currently being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board based on a Joby aircraft crash in February. . The company said a similar facility will be set up in San Jose, Costa Rica, where Avionyx hails from, to accelerate those software verification efforts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2024

The first is aimed firmly at workers with strenuous or repetitive jobs such as lifting and transporting packages. If you follow the world of robotic exoskeletons with any frequency, you’re no doubt aware of the two primary categories. The second is assistive, largely focused at individuals with mobility impairments. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

These can be revised and tested right up to a couple months before launch, unlike an ordinary building process which might require the hardware to be locked in a year or more before. Lockheed picks Relativity’s 3D-printed rocket for experimental NASA mission.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. Mobility + Transportation. HealthTech + BioTech. Space + Security. SaaS, Enterprise + Retail. Education, HR + Future of Work. Climate + CleanTech. FinTech + Blockchain. Want to see the companies?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Disrupt will have six industry tracks, each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. Yup, sustainability, a category that will combine transportation , climate tech , smart cities and renewables. What the heck is sustainable tech, anyway?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Their product, which begin shipping in 2020, has attracted a number of investors who see opportunity in its broad application across transportation — and even to other industries, including consumer electronics. With other customers, like say a scooter company, Point One might also need to include a chipset.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Toyota, an investor in Pony , is considered Pony’s close partner, but the Japanese auto giant probably doesn’t enjoy the same breadth of resources as GAC in China, where public transportation is largely owned by the government. As technology develops, the focus has turned to the operation of autonomous driving.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe provided more details Thursday on the company’s plans to update the hardware in its EVs next year — under a program internally called Peregrine — that he says will result in major cost savings. One of the biggest payoffs?

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Budee Solutions: An “all-in-one digital safety platform” for industrial workers (construction, mining, transportation, etc.) Var.energy: Developing proprietary hardware for solar power generation facilities to improve compatibility with the existing power grid.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Most of the solutions you’ll see at the show this week are focused on transporting goods from Point A to Point B along a warehouse floor. Pickle 3 will absolutely float the entire business with a large margin, in terms of the size of the market it’s been designed to support and the gross margins on the hardware and service margins.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Obviously you lose some of the magic here — the self-moving pieces have been sacrificed in order to bring a board that can be rolled up and stashed in a backpack for easier transport. That effect was a big part of what made the tech so eye-catching in the first place. Image Credits: Square Off.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

When they founded Delfast in 2014, originally as a delivery company, Tonkoply and Denysenko knew that providing couriers with green transportation options would be critical to the company’s operations. . Delfast’s co-founders, Daniel Tonkopi and Serhiy Denysenko, say they have always believed in safeguarding the future.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Automating warehouse operations The robots involved with LCS do not manufacture components; instead, their job is transporting bins and totes that contain a variety of parts, stacking them in a neat, logical way based on how often they are needed. It’s a major transformation from what was once a mostly manual process.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Robotics reaches everything from enterprise to consumer, with both software and hardware solutions, from across the globe. Focus on tech connected to various aspect of robotics: AI, agtech, manufacturing, logistics, medical device, food tech, transportation, data processing, material science, SaaS, etc. Pitch your robotics startup.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Autonobot: Discover the builders automating our lives with robotics and hardware alongside the scientists creating the artificial intelligence that powers it all. The Station: Share insights with people pushing the boundaries of mobility including drone technology, autonomous vehicles and transportation.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. I mean, the heavy freight transport industry stands for between 7% to 8% of global CO2 emissions, and the engines that I helped to produce contribute roughly 1% of global CO2 emissions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We caught up with de Souza to talk about the implications of China’s investment in battery swapping, why scaling fast-charging infrastructure is a lot harder than we think and sought his advice on how hardware startups can scale while staying lean.

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