By John Edwards

Trevor Blackwell, CEO of Mountain View, Calif.-based AnyBots, is also building a line of mobile office robots. The machines, designed to serve as avatars for humans located across town or on the other side of the world, are operated via a Web browser through a Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G wireless connection and can freely roll around an office, production site, sales floor, convention center or lobby.

 By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor

Entrepreneurship has been one of the most studied areas in the industry. But some information seems to be hard to come by, even in Silicon Valley--like measuring the business success of high-tech start-ups.

 By Edmond Hennessy, VentureOnLine

COTS Embedded Market veteran Edmond Hennessy discusses the importance of cultivating human relationships as the key to success of four industry entrepreneurs.

 By Staff

According to a report by Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, semiconductor startups and small private companies attracted over $1.3 billion dollars in funding during the past two years. But the number of startups has fallen significantly in comparison with the earlier years of the decade.

Bill Wong of Electronic Design magazine talks with Thomas Dougherty of Monolith Engines about a two and four cylinder single-stroke opposed piston engines and the technology that makes them work.