Apple now makes robots. What’s more, the company’s new recycling robot, called Liam, may be evidence of a push to automate the production of the iPhone.
At Apple’s slightly humdrum event on Monday, the company showed a video of Liam carefully pulling iPhones apart for recycling. The cutesy clip showed the robot unscrewing and removing the device’s case and pulling apart different electronic chips with suction cups before tossing an iPhone shell into a bin.
“You’ll notice we have many more startups that aren’t in the traditional software category,” said Y Combinator President Sam Altman at the start of its Winter 2016 Demo Day 1. While once upon a time YC was known for legions of social and marketplace apps no one needed, it’s branched out. Now Silicon Valley’s top accelerator features tons of hardware, engineering, alternative energy and enterprise startups, too.
The afternoon began with a moment of silence for Andy Grove, former Intel CEO and beloved business mentor, as well as the victims of this morning’s terrorist attacks in Brussels.
In November 2015, we released the first Periodic Table of Insurance Tech highlighting key players in the insurance tech space you need to know, including startups, VCs, corporate investors, and accelerators. But the market has grown immensely since, as startups across pet insurance, small business insurance, new sharing economy frameworks, and more attract venture capital investment.
With the fields of fitness, sports, and wellness becoming more quantified and digital, traditional athletic brands are rethinking their business models and products in order to stay competitive.
Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) ha renovado, por otros dos años más, el Servicio de Mantenimiento Integral que ONDOAN ha venido realizando en las instalaciones del recinto ferial. La renovación se produce bajo la cobertura de garantía total, incluyendo el riesgo del suministro de los repuestos derivados de las posibles averías.
ONDOAN se ha encargado históricamente del Mantenimiento Integral de las instalaciones del BEC, la nueva infraestructura ferial vizcaína, heredera de la antigua Feria de Muestras de Bilbao, diseñada por el arquitecto César Aitor Azcárate de ACXT-IDOM. Antes de que construyera este recinto, ONDOAN realizó el estudio sobre la contaminación del suelo y su recuperación.
Uno de cada tres cocineros tiene sus manos contaminadas con entenobacterias cuando manipula alimentos en la cocina, según los resultados de un análisis llevado a cabo por ASP Asepsia, que alerta del riesgo de intoxicaciones alimentarias que puede conllevar para los comensales.
El estudio incluyó a un centenar de cocineros de diferentes restaurantes de Madrid a los que se tomaron muestras con un hisopo estéril entre los dedos, uñas y manos antes de realizar una auditoría para el análisis de peligros y puntos de control críticos (APPCC), proceso preventivo de riesgos en contaminación alimentaria al que deben someterse todos los establecimientos hosteleros.
Holland, MI-based medical device startup Magnesium Development Company (MDC) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $1 million seed round. Start Garden’s venture fund and Genesis Innovation Group led the round.
El proceso concursal del túnel entre Figueres (Girona) y Perpignan ha entrado en la fase de convenio, la establecida para alcanzar un acuerdo con los acreedores que garantice su viabilidad.
ACS y Eiffage tienen de plazo hasta el próximo mes de junio para lograr un acuerdo con los acreedores y los gobiernos de España y Francia sobre el túnel del AVE que une los dos países bajo los Pirineos, con el fin de esta infraestructura supere el concurso en que actualmente está inmersa y evite así su liquidación.
Japanese startup Whill’s Model M, a motorized wheelchair alternative, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. This means that the Model M can now be prescribed by physicians as a medical device and covered by insurance.
Whill has raised about $12.85 million in funding so far from investors including the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo. The company previously sold another mobility device, called the Type-A, in the United States, which it didn’t seek FDA approval for.
Attempting to free people with diabetes from frequent finger-pricks and drug injections, researchers have created an electronic skin patch that senses excess glucose in sweat and automatically administers drugs by heating up microneedles that penetrate the skin.
