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humanoids, drones, self-driving vehicles and machines that move on their own

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RoboStore Spins Up a U.S. Manufacturer Called Robo Inc. to Build and Deploy Robots on American Soil

The company behind more than 1,500 robot sales in North America is opening a Long Island factory and promising to assemble, integrate and service robots locally, partly to get ahead of trade restrictions on Chinese hardware.

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Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion to Build AI-Powered Defense Factories Across the US

The automated manufacturing startup, valued at $7.87 billion after the round, now controls nearly three million square feet of factory space and plans to expand into munitions and autonomous weapons production.

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A data-center parts maker replaced all hand welding with 58 robots. Here's what happened.

Tate Inc. says a 12-times jump in per-welder output and an end to costly rework followed its shift to cloud-connected robotic welding across three U.S. factories.

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Analog Devices doubles down on robotics startups with renewed MassRobotics sponsorship

The semiconductor giant is giving Boston-area robotics founders direct access to its engineers, sensor technology and seed funding through its internal startup incubator.

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Meet the robots learning to survive real warehouse chaos

Nomagic's North America chief explains how AI-guided robot arms are moving from controlled demos to the messy reality of order fulfilment, and what that shift means for the warehouses that pack your online orders.

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Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots

The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.

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Meet Robin, the Kid-Sized Robot Helping Patients Stay Calm in Hospitals and Dental Clinics

A small, armless robot with a backstory about missing outer space is showing up in around 30 healthcare facilities and convincing children to eat, breathe, and sit still for the dentist.

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Warehouse Robots Are Getting Smarter. Here Is What Is Driving the Boom.

Two new market forecasts show the autonomous mobile robot industry doubling or tripling by 2030, pushed by labour costs and better AI-powered navigation.

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US Navy shipbuilder commits up to $900 million to robot welding and sanding firms

Huntington Ingalls Industries is betting nearly a billion dollars that AI-driven robots can build warships faster than human crews alone.

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This Four-Legged Robot Inspects Factories Using AI, No Cloud Connection Needed

Avnet and Weston Robot have built a dog-like inspection robot that thinks for itself on-site, spots problems in real time, and works even when the internet is not available.

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GAM Enterprises Buys Schaeffler's Precision Gearbox Technology to Make Its Own Parts

The Illinois motion-control company acquired the intellectual property behind the PSC gear reducer, a core part in its own flagship product, and set up a new German subsidiary to manufacture it.

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Autodesk puts $1 million into a University of Florida lab that wants robots to build your next home

Florida is short more than 121,000 homes. A new robotics lab and the country's first degree in industrialized construction aim to close that gap with factory-built housing and collaborative robots.

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Moove raises $250 million to build the charging depots and service hubs that self-driving cars need

The fleet operator hit a $2.1 billion valuation and plans to triple its autonomous-vehicle workforce by year-end, betting that owning the physical infrastructure behind autonomous vehicles matters as much as the vehicles themselves.

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The Robot That Can Move Is Useless If It Cannot See

A mining robotics company explains why perception is the hardest problem in industrial autonomy, and what happens when machines go blind in a dust cloud.

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US Navy picks Boston startup's crewless ship to map the deep ocean

Blue Water Autonomy wins a share of a $40 million Navy contract to survey the Indian and Pacific ocean floors using a 190-foot autonomous vessel that can sail for months without a human aboard.

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