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More than 40 years and 1,000 or so patents after selling his first company, AutoSyringe, to healthcare giant Baxter, Dean Kamen still gets a charge describing breakthrough innovation. It’s been five years since his organ fabricating project ARMI (Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute) divided critics. The project made more waves early last month, at the CNN-hosted […]
One of TechCrunch’s favorite events — TC Sessions: Robotics 2022 — is coming back virtually July 21. It’s slated to be one of the best programming lineups in the robotics industry, with luminaries like U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, inventor Dean Kamen and Amazon’s VP of Global Robotics, Joseph Quinlivan — and more. As […]
Amazon’s drive to get as many products to customers as quickly as possible combined with a decade of technological breakthroughs, a labor shortage and skyrocketing e-commerce growth have aligned to create ideal conditions for warehouse robotics startups. This fruitful convergence has led to acquisitions, large funding rounds and at least one robotics IPO next year. […]
Just over a month ago, I was standing onstage at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, delivering the opening remarks for TechCrunch’s first-ever climate event. It was a surreal moment that perfectly encapsulated the strange time warp we’ve both quickly and slowly been hurdling through over the past two-and-a-half years. It was the first time I’d been […]
