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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

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When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. Image Credits: RedRoute.

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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

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Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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Hyundai invests in teleoperations startup Ottopia as part of $9M round

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Ottopia’s software is combined with off-the-shelf hardware components like monitors and cameras to create a teleoperations center. It was a technology that he soon recognized would need what every other mission-critical system requires: humans. . Existing investors MizMaa and Israeli firm NextGear also participated.

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Robotics Funding Remains Robust As Startups Seek To Expand Robots’ Skills

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That’s a far cry from a robotics arm in a warehouse taking things off a shelf, and those two startups are not the only ones raising big rounds to try to expand the occupational skills of robots. Perhaps the robots will take over — but not just any robots. Overall, the robotics sector has had a good venture funding year.

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VanMoof raises $128 million to become the world’s leading e-bike brand

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VanMoof X3 e-bike review: Transportation revelation. Instead of relying exclusively on off-the-shelf parts, the company works with a small set of suppliers to manufacture custom components. Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. Last year, VanMoof raised a $40 million Series B.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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The reasons include higher than expected costs, but also performance and latency issues; security, data privacy, and compliance concerns; and regional digital sovereignty regulations that affect where data can be located, transported, and processed. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments.

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Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm

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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. Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. It’s no surprise, of course. Logistics and automation go hand in hand these days. Third is Pickle, a newcomer to the space.