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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 the 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.
Fusion startup cuts fuel pellet production from days to minutes
Inertia Enterprises says it can now make the tiny fuel capsules at the heart of its nuclear fusion power plant in two to three hours, down from a week or more. The speedup quietly solves one of the hardest manufacturing problems standing between fusion energy and the electricity grid.
Factory Robots Don't All Need to Be Supercars: Kollmorgen's Case for Right-Sizing Motion Systems
Industrial automation company Kollmorgen has expanded its Essentials motion platform to work with the high-voltage power supplies standard in factories, arguing that matching the machine to the job saves time, money, and headaches.
Three ex-SpaceX engineers are building a robot factory to make steel parts for AI data centres
Their startup, 1872, opened its first facility in Cincinnati this month. The goal: automate most of the steel fabrication process by 2027, starting with the frames that hold modular data centres together.
Industrial robots are booming outside car factories, new data shows
North American robot orders jumped 21% in value in Q2 2026, and the biggest growth came from chip makers, life sciences firms and food producers, not the car companies that once dominated the industry.
Humanoid robots could become a $370 billion market by 2040. Here is what is slowing them down
McKinsey puts the general-purpose robotics market on track for massive growth, but the software tools used to design these machines are still stuck in the past.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Humanoid robots are nearly ready for the factory floor. The price tag is not.
The technology behind warehouse robots has come a long way. The business case still needs work, and here is why cost, not artificial intelligence, is the real obstacle.
The Robot Startup That Accidentally Became America's China-Free Moment
A Bangalore-built robotics company spent years developing its own hardware to make better robots. When US regulators banned Chinese-made machines, it turned out Ati Robotics had already done the hard work.