March 3, 2025
Robotics

ABB Robotics survey predicts EV production growth in 2025

ABB’s IRB-7720 modular industrial robot arm. | Credit: ABB ABB Robotics’ third Automotive Manufacturing Outlook Survey offers some great insights into how automotive manufacturing leaders and key suppliers view electric vehicle (EV) production objectives. According to the survey, there is a positive outlook from manufacturing leaders on the growth of EV production in 2025. Thirty-one percent of the 434 survey respondents predicted EV output would increase by more than 10%. A further 44% said production

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Steve Crowe March 3, 2025

The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

2 min read Harry Goldstein is Editor in Chief of IEEE Spectrum. Nicole MIllman Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 IEEE President Kathleen Kramer. The event celebrated

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Harry Goldstein March 3, 2025
Robotics

Top 10 robotics developments of February 2025 – The Robot Report

Humanoids continue to dominate the conversation in robotics. Half of our top stories this month were about humanoids. Additionally, our readers were drawn to stories about surgical robotics, advances in AI, and industry trends. Here are the 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in the past month. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter and listen to The Robot Report Podcast to stay updated on the latest robotics developments. 10. ISO 10218 industrial robot safety standard receives

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Brianna Wessling March 3, 2025

How Custom Web Apps Are Driving Innovation in Supply Chain Management | HackerNoon

Introduction Today, the world of business, economies, and supply chains are interconnected, and this interconnectedness leads to a chunk of tangles about managing multiple operations. Alongside factors like geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, and sudden market shifts add extra complexity to the situation. Result? Many businesses feel overwhelmed, and it is not their fault! What did Steve Jobs say? (raises eyebrows questioning you)

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Vygha March 3, 2025

Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions | TechCrunch

AI startup Anthropic on Monday announced it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The Series E, which also had participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, brings the company’s total raised to $18.2 billion, according to Crunchbase. “With this investment, Anthropic will advance its development of next-generation AI systems, expand

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Kyle Wiggers March 3, 2025

Fintech startup Ramp nearly doubles valuation to $13B in secondary share sale | TechCrunch

Expense management startup Ramp has nearly doubled its valuation to $13 billion after a $150 million secondary share sale, the company announced Monday morning. New and existing backers including VC Stripes, GIC, Avenir Growth, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, 137 Ventures, and Definition Capital bought the secondaries from employees and early investors. It’s a massive bump in valuation for fintech startup, which was valued at $7.65 billion last April when it raised

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Mary Ann Azevedo March 3, 2025

Building Generative AI for Everyone: Lessons From Kaustav Das Sharma and Gumloop | HackerNoon

Generative AI is everywhere. Chatbots and virtual assistants respond to customers, Large Language Models (LLMs) help make blog posts, viral videos, and even teach students. But just because it’s widespread doesn’t mean it’s easy to use. Many businesses struggle to adopt generative AI because of its technical complexity, high costs, a shortage of talent needed to work with it, and scalability problems, among others. For Kaustav Das Sharma, Founding Engineer at no-code AI platform Gumloop,

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Jon Stojan Journalist March 3, 2025
Robotics

Schneider Electric partners with SEER Robotics

SEER Robotics’ mobile robot portfolio. | Credit: SEER Robotics Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, is leveraging SEER Robotics’ technology to transform its logistics and production processes. With a strong presence in energy efficiency and automation, Schneider Electric continues to push the envelope in smart manufacturing by integrating intelligent robots and advanced logistics management systems into its global operations. Schneider Electric’s commitment to innovation has earned several of its global production

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The Robot Report Staff March 3, 2025

Meet Spacecoin: HackerNoon Company of the Week | HackerNoon

Welcome to HackerNoon Company of the Week – a weekly series where we give the spotlight to an awesome tech company that is actively making its evergreen mark on the internet through great innovations and extreme resilience. All the data and information are taken from HackerNoon’s tech company database, where we rank S&P 500 companies and top startups. This week, we introduce Spacecoin – a satellite telecommunications company, working on the world’s first decentralized physical

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Company of the Week March 3, 2025
Hardware

Mozilla Responds To Backlash Over Data Collection Policy In Firefox

Last Wednesday, Mozilla revealed a new Terms of Use and Privacy Notice regarding Firefox. However, the wording of the Terms of Use appears to suggest that by agreeing to use its services, the company had exclusive rights to all the information that users processed through its web browser. However, in an effort to respond to the criticism that followed the introduction of this update, Mozilla has now made some adjustments and offered explanations, which it

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Victor Awogbemila March 3, 2025