Apple to remove pressure sensor from camera control

Apple is pushing into AI hardware with a Siri-powered robot, smart displays, and home-security devices. 🧠 🍎 Apple is preparing a big AI hardware push with a tabletop robot featuring a smarter Siri coming in 2027, a smart speaker with a screen next year, and new home-security cameras. These devices will run on a new OS and tie into Apple’s ecosystem, but critics warn the products seem late, lack unique features, and may struggle to compete unless Apple delivers something truly new. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke. #TFDRundown #AppleAI #SmartHome #AIHardware #AIInnovation

A robotic hand that’s smaller than an iPhone, yet can thread a needle, lift 20 kilograms, and weighs only 383 grams...and never gets tired! Autodiscovery’s new Revo-2 dexterous hand moves like us, grips like us, and is designed to handle the same objects we do. Which makes sense, after all, the entire world is built for human hands. Piece by piece, we’re cloning ourselves. Not just copying the shape, but improving it: steadier, stronger, more precise. And one day, these won’t look like robotic claws or metal parts. They’ll be made of silicon, designed to look and feel just like our own hands. That’s when it gets strange. Follow Endrit Restelica for more.

When it comes to a post labor world, robotics play a huge role in job automation and displacement but is talked about much less than AI. 👋🏻🤖 #robotics #automation #payattention #futureofwork #manuallabor #dexterity #AI #PostLaborEcononomy

A robotic hand that’s smaller than an iPhone, yet can thread a needle, lift 20 kilograms, and weighs only 383 grams...and never gets tired! Autodiscovery’s new Revo-2 dexterous hand moves like us, grips like us, and is designed to handle the same objects we do. Which makes sense, after all, the entire world is built for human hands. Piece by piece, we’re cloning ourselves. Not just copying the shape, but improving it: steadier, stronger, more precise. And one day, these won’t look like robotic claws or metal parts. They’ll be made of silicon, designed to look and feel just like our own hands. That’s when it gets strange.

Someone asked why the sky still appears blue when using the IR-SENSE on a smartphone camera. The film is designed and optimized to differentiate between different types of "white light" and to identify lighting products that produce full spectrum with near-infrared (NIR) energy. When pointing the camera at objects having non-white light/colors, it will generally highlight the most dominant spectral feature present. Blue in the case of sky/water and NIR in the case of tree leaves. The IR-SENSE is intended to be a simpler, quicker, and lower-cost alternative to using a digital infrared detector or spectrometer to determine whether a white light source is producing NIR.

📱 Precision for Smartphone Buttons How can you test power and volume buttons quickly, automatically, and with high accuracy? 👉 With Forceteq® Pro: A 3-axis system tests smartphone buttons with a DMS force sensor from FUTEK, delivering precise force measurement (≤ 0.5 % accuracy) – directly inside the servo controller, without external electronics. 🔹 Force monitoring, displacement analysis, and pass/fail evaluation in one system 🔹 Fully automated and repeatable – no external evaluation box required 🔹 Compact, flexible, and ready for seamless integration into test stations #ForceteqPro #Futek #SmartphoneTesting #ConsumerElectronics #ForceMeasurement #Automation #Haptics #TestAutomation #WebMotion #JennyScience #SwissEngineering

Thermal imaging — but everyone’s invited. The new iXX-Series brings thermography to everyone. Now you can catch faults before they fail, cut downtime, and extend the life of critical assets — all with a tool as intuitive as your smartphone. Step into the future of thermography: https://lnkd.in/e5qsRh9j #infrared #ixx #flir #thermalimaging #conditionmonitoring #predictivemaintenance

🔍 Why you should debug on real devices (not just emulators or simulators) Emulators and simulators are great for quick testing. They save time and make it easy to run multiple devices on your machine. But when it comes to debugging apps properly, relying only on them can be risky. Here’s why real devices matter: ✅ Performance Accuracy, Emulators can’t fully replicate CPU/GPU speed, battery usage, or real-world performance. ✅ Hardware Integration, Features like camera, GPS, Bluetooth, sensors, push notifications, and biometrics often behave differently on actual devices. ✅ Network Conditions, Real devices let you test on WiFi, 4G/5G, weak signals, or even offline scenarios. ✅ User Experience, Touch gestures, screen brightness, animations, and app responsiveness feel different in real hands. ✅ Reliability, A bug that never shows up in a simulator may crash instantly on a real device. 💡 Best practice: Use emulators/simulators for quick checks, but always validate and debug on real hardware before release. 👉 After all, your users aren’t using emulators, they’re using real devices. #MobileAppDevelopment #Debugging #SoftwareTesting #AppPerformance #RealDeviceTesting #QualityAssurance #DeveloperTips #MobileDevelopment #UserExperience #TechBestPractices

The 2 Phase of AI is local inference... • Phones become agents, not app launchers • Cars/robots run locally, without sending everything to the internet. • The real advantage shifts to silicon + batteries + sensors Watch: NPUs, HBM, GaN/SiC power, thermal, perception, EMS/ODM scale

📱 Have you ever wondered 𝙝𝙤𝙬 your smartphone, laptop, or car electronics keep running so smoothly — with stable power and clear signals? It’s thanks to 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙪𝙢 — a Critical Raw Material hidden inside tiny capacitors (MLCCs) on circuit boards. 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙪𝙢 is used in the electrodes of MLCCs, which regulate voltage and filter electrical “noise”. These invisible building blocks are everywhere — in your phone, computer, medical devices, and even in automotive control units — keeping electronics stable, reliable, and long-lasting. While many capacitors now use nickel, Palladium remains essential in high-reliability capacitors found in critical electronics such as medical devices, telecom, and automotive systems. This year, International #ewasteday – 14 October 2025 – will spotlight Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) — elements mined in only a handful of countries, yet crucial to the green and digital transition. Whether you’re a company, a school, an NGO or a public authority, you can join the movement! Organise an event, a campaign or an awareness initiative, and register your activity to be part of a global effort to reduce e-waste and recover valuable materials: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dZifT6V ♻️ Recycle your e-waste – It’s critical!