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Northeastern University VR lab targeted in explosive mail attack

September 14, 2022 Amanda Silberling 223 ViewsMark Zuckerberg, meta, metaverse, northeastern university, Virtual reality 1 min read

A staff member at Northeastern University’s Holmes Hall was injured after opening an explosive package, the Boston Police Department reports. Holmes Hall is home to the university’s virtual reality center. Federal law enforcement sources told CNN that the package included a “rambling note” that disparaged Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the relationship between academia and […]

Flexxbotics puts work-cell manufacturing on cloud nine

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Flexxbotics puts work-cell manufacturing on cloud nine

May 16, 2022August 10, 2022 Haje Jan Kamps 205 ViewseCoast angels, flexxbotics, northeastern university, Startups 1 min read

In manufacturing — and especially in the space of contract manufacturing, where production lines are reconfigured to suit the product that’s being built — we’ve seen a prevailing trend from super-specific automation robots that are custom-built to do just one thing, toward more generalized, multi-purpose robots. Flexxbotics just closed a $2.9 million round to leap […]