Long-time Android Engineering VP Dave Burke said today that he is stepping down from the role.
Burke, who spent 14 years building Android, is not leaving Alphabet and is exploring “AI/bio” projects within the company.
Burke was involved in pivotal projects, including building Nexus/Pixel phones, developing Chrome for mobile phones, starting Android TV, and spearheading efforts to build and ship developer tools.
“So… after 14 yrs leading Android engineering, I’ve decided it’s time for a change.
So… after 14 yrs leading Android engineering, I've decided it's time for a change.
All VC firms have also grown increasingly focused on making early-stage investments in India in recent years and finding the next Flipkart at the seed stage.
Accel has been trying to find the right fit for its early-stage accelerator program for nearly half a decade now.
SkoobSkoob is a generative AI platform which is revolutionizing the way readers interact with books.
More than 800 startups applied to be in Atoms 3.0, and about 300-400 applicants were AI startups.
Swaroop said nearly two-thirds of all pitches focused on AI startups that sought to solve HR and marketing problems.
That’s why Sheets decided to develop the $199 Blipbox, an affordable kid-friendly synthesizer designed for ages three and up.
With its chunky control knobs, levers and an easy-to-use randomize feature, MyTracks aims to encourage music exploration and simplify beatmaking for kids.
According to the company, all Blipbox devices underwent “rigorous” testing to ensure they are BPA-free and comply with toy safety standards.
Blipbox has even been used by music teachers, including helping special-needs kids express their creativity in a non-verbal way.
“We got a lot of weird looks from parents,” Kate Sheets says, describing how people reacted to the first Blipbox synthesizer in 2018.
In the summer after his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an engineering school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cyvl.ai co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez needed a job.
And during my time there, I quickly saw firsthand they had no data on anything,” Pelaez told TechCrunch.
He saw an opportunity that would eventually become Cyvl.ai, a firm that helps municipalities and civil engineering firms bring a digital layer to tracking the conditions of transportation infrastructure.
“Our core vision and why we started the company in the first place is to help the entire world build and maintain better transportation infrastructure,” he said.
The $6 million investment was led by Companyon Ventures with participation from Argon Ventures, AeroX Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
It’s extremely heartening to see our little list effectively double since the last time we did one of these.
While it’s true that layoffs continue to plague the tech industry at large, there are few better fields to be expert in at the moment than Robotics and AI.
With more than 60 entries this week, there are plenty of jobs and companies to choose from, across a broad range of different segments from mail sorting to surgery to space.
To everyone who lost a job, recently graduated or is just looking for something new, here’s to finding your next big thing.
ACK Robotics (10 roles)Advanced Construction Robotics (3 roles)Aescape (7 roles)Aigen (16 roles)Ambi Robotics (2 roles)ANYbotics (24 roles)Astrobotic (40 roles)Aurora (63 roles)Austrian Institute of Technology (1 role)Avidbots (12 roles)Baubot (12 roles)Bloomfield Robotics (5 roles)Bridge Appliances Inc (2 roles)Carnegie Robotics (3 roles)Chef Robotics (9 roles)Collaborative Robotics (8 roles)Covariant (14 roles)Crimson Tech (3 roles)Cyvl.ai (3 roles)Dexterity (39 roles)Edge Case Research (3 roles)Exotec (176 roles)Formic (7 roles)Formlogic (10 roles)Four Growers (4 roles)Foxglove (2 roles)Gather AI (5 roles)GrayMatter Robotics (8 roles)Hellbender (6 roles)Honeywell (10 roles)Identified Technology (5 roles)Kef Robotics (3 roles)Kewazo (2 roles)Matic Robotics (12 roles)Medra AI (2 roles)Mine Vision Systems (2 roles)Motional (19 roles)National Robotics Engineering Center (3 roles)Near Earth Autonomy (7 roles)Neya Systems (6 roles)Nimble Robotics (9 roles)Onward Robotics (3 roles)Point One Navigation (5 roles)Pudu Robotics (2 roles)Reframe Systems (3 roles)Roboto AI (1 role)Robust AI (12 roles)Sanctuary AI (12 roles)Scythe Robotics (7 roles)Seegrid (10 roles)ST Engineering Aethon (4 roles)Stack AV (40 roles)Standard Bots (8 roles)Stratom Inc (7 roles)Symbotic (95 roles)The AI Institute (18 roles)Titan Robotics (3 roles)Vayu Robotics (4 roles)Vecna Robotics (5 roles)Vention (19 roles)Volley Automation (6 roles)
Simulations are an essential step in physical product engineering.
“Luminary’s real-time engineering approach empowers engineering teams to perform product simulation and analysis cycles in minutes, rather than weeks,” Lango said.
[This] results in improved time to market, faster insights, better design outcomes, increased team productivity and better use of valuable physical prototyping dollars.”AI-leaningLuminary isn’t exactly first-to-market with a cloud-based engineering simulation tool.
Lango met Alonso during summer 2019 through Sutter Hill Ventures, the private equity firm, where Lango was an entrepreneur in residence.
Sutter Hill sees a lucrative future in Luminary, evidently, as the startup’s customer base eclipses 33 organizations across the automotive, aerospace and defense and industrial equipment sectors.
Heidy Khlaaf is an engineering director at the cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits.
She specializes in evaluating software and AI implementations within “safety critical” systems, like nuclear power plants and autonomous vehicles.
Imposter syndrome has a strong hold on women within tech, and leads many to doubt their own scientific integrity.
The way AI systems are trained embed human bias and discrimination within their outputs that become “de facto” and automated.
AI systems should not be exempt from standard auditing processes that are well-established to ensure public and consumer protection.
Enterprises need to understand how much to budget into AI tools, how to weigh the benefits of AI versus new recruits, and how to ensure their training is on point.
A recent study also found that who is using AI tools is a critical business decision, as less experienced developers get far more benefits out of AI than experienced ones.
At Waydev, we’ve spent the past year experimenting on the best way to use generative AI in our own software development processes, developing AI products, and measuring the success of AI tools in software teams.
This is what we’ve learned on how enterprises need to prepare for a serious AI investment in software development.
Then use an engineering management platform (EMP) or software engineering intelligence platform (SEIP) to track whether your adoption of AI is moving the needle on those variables.
An email, penned by newly minted president and CTO Mo Elshenawy, was sent this morning to the entire 3,800-person workforce.
Cruise is targeting non-engineering jobs in the layoffs, particularly those people who worked in the field, commercial operations and corporate staffing, according to the email.
Engineering, a category that makes up the bulk of the Cruise workforce, is largely being preserved, according to the content of the email and discussions with internal sources.
The layoffs have been largely expected at Cruise for weeks now.
GM and the Cruise board have been scrambling ever since the October 2 incident put the company in the crosshairs of state, local and federal agencies.
Tesla is making California the home of its global engineering headquarters in order to receive government incentives for companies like Tesla. The company has also made it a priority to…
