📢 The Copier Is Dead. Long Live the Android.

- By Celeste

Somewhere, an MFP sits idle. Dusty. Forgotten. Printed 14 pages last month, one of them a Costco coupon.

Meanwhile, a humanoid robot is onboarding new hires, delivering toner, and answering service questions in fluent Ai.

We’ve reached the crossover moment.

Crickets and Quasi Robotics Forge Strategic Partnership to Bring Robots to the Channel, and the Channel to Robots

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Crickets and Quasi Robotics Forge Strategic Partnership to Bring Robots to the Channel, and the Channel to Robots 

United States of America, July 17, 2025 — 

Crickets, a coalition of industry veterans dedicated to advancing next-generation technology in the copier and IT dealer space, today announced a formal agreement with Quasi Robotics, appointing Cricket as an office agent to accelerate Quasi’s U.S. channel expansion. This partnership marks a milestone: not only bringing Quasi’s innovative robots into the dealer channel but also bringing the dealer channel into the fast-emerging robotics market. Bringing Robots to the Channel Under the agreement, Cricket will introduce, onboard, and support qualified copier and IT dealers, giving them access to Quasi’s lineup of service and automation robots. 

New to Copier Sales: When the LLM Writes With You, Not for You

July 24, 2025 Greg Walters

No matter what you’re hearing, whatever the self-appointed “AI expert du jour” says, the large language model (LLM) doesn’t replace you or your voice. It tunes, sharpens and removes the junk. It helps fill in the blanks. It is a writing partner that doesn’t interrupt, doesn’t forget what you said yesterday, and never asks you to deliver toner on a Saturday.