When you first start Mob Factory, it seems like just a very simple tower defence game. There’s a hole in the ground. Worms come out of it. They follow a clearly marked path towards your castle. You set up crossbow towers, which shoot arrows at the worms, so that they die and don’t reach your…
Developer velocity, the speed at which an organization ships code, is often impacted by necessary but lengthy processes like code review, writing documentation and testing. Inefficiencies threaten to make theses processes even longer. According to one source, developers waste 17.3 hours per week due to technical debt and bad — i.e. nonfunctional — code. Theoretical…
In this undated supplied photo, two humanoid Digit robots demonstrate the type of tasks they are capable of doing. Agility Robotics, creator of Digit, is about to open a first-of-its-kind robot production plant in Salem, Oregon. The 70,000 square foot facility will mass produce their humanoid robot, and the operation can be scaled to build…
The creators of the bipedal robot Digit are bringing the world’s first factory for humanoid robots to Salem and say they will soon have the capacity to produce 10,000 robots a year. Agility Robotics, a Corvallis-based company, announced the opening of RoboFab Monday. Construction of the 70,000-square-foot facility began last year and is set to…
The logo of ABB is seen at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland September 10, 2020. Picture taken September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights ZURICH, Sept 13 (Reuters) – ABB (ABBN.S) is spending $280 million on a new robotics factory in Sweden, the Swiss engineering and technology group said on Wednesday, to…
It’s not just a fast fashion problem. As the luxury market has consolidated and companies have listed on the stock exchange, pressure to increase revenues every year coupled with growing consumption has driven up production volumes. In luxury, handmade is here to stay Automation can help with speed as luxury starts to edge closer to…
An exterior photo of the larger Citizen model modular home from ZenniHome. Image courtesy ZenniHome With America facing a shortfall of 7.3 million affordable housing units across the nation, there’s a desperate need to use innovation to help fill the gap. ZenniHome is looking to answer that call. Based in Page, Arizona, the startup was…
