Check Out This New Flying Taxi Design From Volocopter

Volocopter is celebrating 10 years in the electric-aircraft business with the unveiling of a new design called VoloConnect. The electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle will connect suburbs and cities, carrying as many as four passengers on journeys of up to 62 miles (100 km). An animation (below) released by Volocopter this week shows how the 112-mph…

STMicro buys France-based edge AI firm Cartesiam to boost tinyML in STM32 line

Semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has agreed a deal to acquire France-based edge AI software specialist Cartesiam for an undisclosed fee. The deal covers all Cartesiam’s assets, including its intellectual property portfolio and employees. Cartesiam, founded in 2016, based in Toulon, makes artificial intelligence (AI) development tools enabling machine-learning (ML) and inferencing on Arm-based microcontrollers. Its…