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Saying that AR misses out on the most human of senses, Haptikos launches Haptik_OS for running exoskeletons, along with Haptikos Exoskeleton -- a pair of mechanical hands ($2,500; see image above). The hands have tracking sensors, haptic sensors, and (to come) kinaesthetic sensors, with 24 DoFs (degrees of freedom) per hand and sub-millimeter motion accuracy.
Apply for early access through https://haptikos.tech.
Together with Webclipper, Canoa lets you search product catalogs with fuzzy (“blue chairs”) and structured searches (“blue chairs between $120 and $240 from these 2 brands only”). Try it free at https://www.canoa.supply
On the other side of the market, Canoa is asking parts suppliers to join, noting that “We’ve also removed the 2,000 SKU [stock keeping unit] limit we used to have”.
Snaptrude hosts a Webinar on "From Program to Proposal in Under 60 Minutes" February 13 at 9am Pacific time to showcase
Register at https://lu.ma/kxcfwo66
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Logitech hosts a repair site at iFixIt with instructions for fixing broken mice and keyboards at https://www.ifixit.com/collaborations/logitech-eu. The guides are customer-developed, so the coverage is uneven, or have complex steps, such as "Unsolder the microswitch." Sometimes links to parts suppliers are provided.
The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium announces the planned retirement president David Lorenzo, and the election of lawyer Shawn Lindsay as his replacement. Mr Lindsay is former counsel at Portland law firm Lane Powell. Mr Lorenzo had been president since 2010. Details at https://www.intellicad.org/articles-and-press-releases/the-intellicad-technology-consortium-announces-new-president
Hexagon replaces ceo Paolo Guglielmini with Anders Svensson. Mr. Svensson is the former ceo of materials handler Konecranes. More on this move at https://hexagon.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/2025/anders-svensson-appointed-as-new-president-and-ceo-of-hexagon
“Deep learning is weak, in the sense that it optimizes once on tons of past data to extract statistical patterns, and is frozen afterwards, while true intelligence dynamically adapts on-the-fly to variations and noise that comes from reality.”
-Chomba Bupe