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Nvidia Backs Four German Startups and Signs a Government AI Deal in Berlin
Jensen Huang and Chancellor Friedrich Merz toasted the news on stage. Germany wants to lead industrial AI, and Nvidia is putting money behind that ambition.
The AI Running Your Power Grid Cannot Afford to Guess Wrong
AVEVA's chief technologist explains why the next wave of industrial AI needs human guardrails before autonomy, and why that order matters more than the technology itself.
Mistral Opens a Munich Hub to Bring Physics AI to German Heavy Industry
The French AI company is setting up a research base in Bavaria to work on simulations for BMW and Siemens Energy, and it wants to keep all the data in Europe.
Arm Pulls 80-Plus Companies Into One Robotics Ecosystem and Proposes a Common Rating Scale
Arm's Total Design for Physical AI program and a six-level Robotics Capability Framework aim to fix the fragmentation that has slowed robot deployment for years.
Universal Robots Gen 7 Wants to Put AI on the Factory Floor Without the Headache
A smaller controller, a lighter teaching device, and three new robot arms aim to make AI deployment feel like a normal Tuesday, not a research project.
Australia's robot gap just got a new fix: an AI tool that writes your automation business case for you
A new national platform called AutomationFinder.com.au uses AI to help Australian manufacturers describe, cost and pitch automation projects, without needing to hire an engineering consultant first.
Caterpillar Is Spending $100 Million to Retrain Its Workers for the AI Age
The construction and mining giant is moving AI from the pit to the office. What its approach tells every business owner about the real cost of adopting AI.
Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.
The clever gearbox trick that could make humanoid robots affordable by 2027
German engineering giant Schaeffler has cracked a manufacturing problem that has kept robot joints expensive and slow to produce. Its answer: stamp them out in seconds instead of machining them over minutes.
How Agentic AI Is Helping Chipmakers Find the Root Cause of Defects Faster
When a yield problem hits a semiconductor factory, the clues are scattered across dozens of systems. A new wave of AI-driven analytics tools promises to pull those clues together automatically.
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.
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.
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.
AI Is Quietly Reshaping Warehouse Robotics, and One Founder Explains How
OSARO co-founder Derik Pridmore says the real breakthroughs in warehouse automation come from continuous learning, hardware flexibility, and safety you can actually trust, not from flashy demos.
How Smarter Databases Are Helping Robots React in Real Time
A database built for time-stamped data sounds like plumbing. But for factory robots and industrial machines, it can be the difference between a system that keeps up and one that falls behind.