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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.
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.
Wang Xingxing Built the World's Cheapest Humanoid Robots. Now the Question Is Whether He Can Let Go.
Wang Xingxing built China's leading humanoid robot company by controlling everything, down to screw lengths. A rare deep-dive by a Chinese financial magazine asks whether that approach can scale.
Agility's Digit 5 Has Human-Style Legs, Nine-Minute Charging and a Safety Squat
The updated humanoid can lift 50 pounds, work 20 hours a day, and sit on the floor to switch itself off when a person walks close, all lessons learned from three years on real factory floors.
Inside the Montreal lab training robots to work on real factory floors
Canadian automation company Vention has opened a Physical AI Lab in Montreal where robots learn from live production data, not just controlled experiments.
Factory Robots Don't Have a Data Problem. They Have a Deployment Problem.
Inbolt's CEO says physical AI is already working on real production lines at Ford, Toyota, and Stellantis. The barrier isn't more data. It's getting robots out of the lab and onto the factory floor without months of costly setup.
A robot startup just raised $165 million to fix the one thing stopping machines from seeing the world clearly
Lyte AI says robots have a sensing problem, not a model problem. Its new funding will push that argument into factories, warehouses and inspection sites.
Before AI Can Help, the Data Has to Work: Lessons from a 140,000-Person Manufacturer
Jabil operates more than 100 factories across 30 countries. Getting AI to do anything useful there first meant fixing something far less glamorous: making data flow the same way everywhere.
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.
A robotics startup wants to fix America's housing shortage with automated mini-factories
Reframe Systems has raised $40 million to build homes using robots and software instead of dozens of subcontractors. Its first proper factory opens in Massachusetts this October.
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.
Universal Robots Owner Sues Chinese Rival JAKA Over Copycat Cobot Claims
Teradyne Robotics has taken a second Chinese robotics firm to court in Europe this year, this time over patents covering hardware and software inside its collaborative robot arms.
Before You Buy a Robot, Build a Virtual One First
Digital twin software lets manufacturers test robotic cells on a computer screen before spending a cent on hardware. Here is why that matters for any company thinking about automation for the first time.
Software-Defined Manufacturing: Can Old Factory Machines Learn New Tricks?
A Georgia startup says yes. R2 Labs plugs AI vision and robotics into equipment that factories already own, letting production lines change what they make without buying new hardware.
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.