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SECO, a leader in edge AI solutions for industrial applications, will showcase its integrated approach to Edge AI at embedded world North America 2026, taking place September 22–24 in Anaheim, California, at the Anaheim Convention Center.

A Mexican jumping bean-inspired robot has been developed by a team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology. The robot, aptly named BeanBot, is capable of moving without motors, batteries, electronics or onboard computing. Rather, the robot is reliant on its surroundings, adapting according to the surfaces and conditions it encounters. Depending on those conditions, the BeanBot is capable of jumping, rolling, flipping, sliding and climbing slopes.

Joining the likes of Motional for robotaxi service in Las Vegas, Nevada, Zoox, the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle arm, has started its driverless ride-hailing service. The service will begin at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), one of the busiest airports in the world, where riders can be picked up and dropped off at terminals.

On the wide-bandgap semiconductor landscape, the outlook for gallium nitride (GaN) foundry services seemed set to crack and split following recent events. Concerns rose when major foundries departed, led by TSMC's announcement of its GaN exit; however, with ample warning, most customers quickly found alternatives. Wolfspeed also pulled back after a brief bankruptcy and rapid restructuring, refocusing its foundry business on pure-play silicon carbide (SiC).

Sivers Semiconductor AB plans to invest $30 million to expand its indium phosphide (InP) manufacturing facility in Glasgow, Scotland. The company said the expansion is driven by anticipated demand for InP-based lasers due to the growth of optical networks used in AI data centers. Whether hyperscalers use traditional optical transceivers, co-packaged optics or linear-drive pluggable optics (LPO), these technologies will likely need an InP-based laser.

Aerospace Peter Brown The Persyst MRAM technology that will be included in Teledyne HiRel’s memory products portfolio to aerospace and defense vendors. Source: Everspin Teledyne HiRel Semiconductors will start offering Everspin Technologies Inc.’s magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) as part of its memory products portfolio to military and aerospace vendors in a new collaboration between the companies.

Krytar, a leader in the design and production of Ultra-broadband microwave components and test equipment announces a new family of Ultra+ 2-way Power Dividers offering high performance over the broadband frequency range of 0.5 to 40.0 GHz in compact packages.

Residential home security has evolved from simple cameras in the home to some of the most sophisticated, easy-to-install equipment, like Ring cameras, that can record and monitor the home as well as communicate with anyone outside a homeowner’s door. IC Realtime is looking to advance the camera capability even further with its Bunker smart residential surveillance and security platform.

Amazon Prime Air is set to expand its drone delivery service to reach nearly 500 cities and towns in the U.S. by the end of 2026. This represents a sixfold increase from its current drone delivery footprint, Amazon said. The announcement comes about four years after Amazon started its drone delivery service and about a decade after it first floated the idea about using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for package delivery.

Front-end semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research has broken ground on its Tualatin, Oregon, lab, where it will expand cleanroom lab space by more than 50% at its Oregon facility when completed. The move comes after Lam Research announced it would spend about $3 billion to invest in a global lab network over the next five years for the creation of equipment used to make advanced AI chips.