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A sprawling American manufacturing facility with rows of agricultural drones in various stages of assembly on factory floors, quality control workers inspecting
Robotics

The Texas Drone Maker That Saw the China Problem Coming a Decade Early

Hylio built its supply chain in America long before Washington made it a legal requirement. Now farmers squeezed by falling crop prices and rising costs are finding out why that matters.

3 min read
A control room with multiple large monitors displaying global supply chain networks as glowing node maps and flowcharts, showing interconnected logistics routes
AI Business

The Canadian software company helping businesses survive supply chain chaos with AI

Kinaxis built a platform that watches your entire supply chain at once and warns you before a problem in one corner becomes a crisis everywhere else.

4 min read
A humanoid robot arm performing precise assembly work on a factory conveyor belt, with industrial equipment and production line infrastructure visible in the ba
Robotics

AGIBOT's Head of North America Will Explain How to Bring Humanoid Robots Out of the Lab at RoboBusiness 2026

Yinghao Song will walk through the real business case for factory-floor robots on October 20 in Santa Clara, covering costs, supply chains, and what it takes to make humanoids pay for themselves.

3 min read
A divided factory floor scene showing American-made robots operating on one side and foreign-manufactured robotics on the other, with facility managers and engi
Robotics

The Robot Industry Is Split Down the Middle Over America's New Robotics Ban

A Boston survey of 14 robotics companies found exactly 43% cheering the FCC's foreign-robot restrictions and 43% dreading them. Where you stand depends almost entirely on where your factory is.

4 min read
Interior of a sprawling data center warehouse with rows of metal equipment racks and cooling systems, focus on industrial electrical components and bundled cabl
Policy

America's AI Data Centers Run on Chinese Parts. Washington Wants to Change That.

From the boxes that regulate electricity to the cables that carry data, a surprising share of the hardware keeping US AI facilities running comes from China. Costs and delays loom if that changes fast.

4 min read
Inside a large manufacturing facility with rows of machinery and assembly lines, a technician at a workstation reviewing data dashboards on multiple monitors sh
AI Business

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.

3 min read
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Robotics

Inside the Robotic Hand That Can Pick Up a Polybag

Locus Robotics bought a Canadian gripping startup to fix one of the hardest problems in warehouse automation: picking up soft, floppy, or awkward things that suction cups simply cannot handle.

4 min read
Industrial robotic arm in a bright factory
Robotics

Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million to expand driverless freight routes

The California company already runs dozens of autonomous trucks for customers like PepsiCo and Kroger. Now it has the cash to scale to thousands.

4 min read
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Policy

Trump's New 15% Tariff Targets a Key Ingredient in Chips and Solar Panels

Polysilicon, the material China dominates making, will cost importers more from December. Here's what that means for AI hardware and your energy bill.

3 min read
A friendly, rounded white home robot with a soft fabric-covered body and a simple cartoon-like face display stands in a bright, tidy modern living room, its two
Robotics

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.

4 min read
Illustration: A modern industrial robot arm frozen mid-motion on a factory floor
Robotics

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.

3 min read
Illustration: A low-profile unmanned grey boat skims across dark, choppy harbour water at night
Robotics

150 Years Old and Still Building Motors for Space Robots

Magmotor Technologies has been making custom electric motors since 1876. Now it plans to triple its workforce and revenue, with robotics leading the charge.

4 min read
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AI Business

TSMC Pours Another $100 Billion Into Arizona as AI Chip Demand Shows No Sign of Slowing

The world's most important chipmaker is doubling down on its US bet, bringing its total Arizona commitment to $265 billion and pointing squarely at AI as the reason.

3 min read
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Science & Space

Jeff Bezos and the UK Government Just Bet $450 Million on a Startup That Hunts for New Materials Using AI

Cambridge-based CuspAI wants to be the search engine for rare materials, cutting the time and cost of finding the physical stuff that powers chips, batteries and beyond.

3 min read
Illustration: A sleek silver humanoid robot standing upright on a large warehouse floor lined with metal shelving
Robotics

America's Humanoid Robot Moment: Agility Robotics CEO Lays Out a Six-Point Plan

Peggy Johnson wants federal policy to catch up with the factory floor. Here's what she's asking for, and why it matters for American workers.

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