Manufacturing
Will Your Robot Have Legs?
ByJohn Werner,
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Inside Corning’s Mission To Become Bubble-Proof
ByAlan Ohnsman,
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How Supply Chain Disruptions Are Reshaping The Future Of Startups
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Tesla Semi’s Biggest Rival Might Be Its Chinese Twin
ByAlan Ohnsman,
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Feather Launches $29,990 Humanoid Robot. Small Teams Are Rewriting The Economics Of Humanoids
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Need a robot? Don't have $100,000? Want more than a toy that dances? There are now multiple humanoid robots that fit the bill ...
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Will Your Robot Have Legs?
As robots preform more jobs alongside humans, will these mechanical co-workers have friendly faces or look more like impersonal hunks of metal with arms and sensors.
ByJohn Werner,
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New ATLIX President Bets Agility Can Make A Big Impact In Metal 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing is increasingly common. The new president of ATLIX Inc. in the U.S. reflects on how the company has changed since its divestment from TRUMPF.
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Tariffs: A Look Back At A Wild 12 Months And The Lens Forward
A review of Global Supply Chain Tariffs and how AI is helping scale a skilled labor shortage and remove complexity.
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Agility Robotics Wants To Make 500 Humanoid Robots Safe, Not Just One
Making one humanoid robot safe for human proximity is great. But it's not going to be enough when we have dozens or hundreds of humanoid around ...
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Inside Corning’s Mission To Become Bubble-Proof
Corning is flying high thanks to the data center craze and insatiable demand for optical fiber. CEO Wendell Weeks is trying to ensure growth won’t stop when the AI bubble pops.
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Feather Launches $29,990 Humanoid Robot. Small Teams Are Rewriting The Economics Of Humanoids
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Figure’s Billion-Dollar Physical AI Bet Delivered A 6X Jump In Robot Chore Success
Figure committed to spending billions on training data. Just 4 weeks after the announcement, the data has delivered a 6X boost in humanoid robot performance.
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Faraday Future Launches 5 New Robots: $9,990 To $137,900 For An Industrial Humanoid
Humanoid robots will do about 50% of the tasks we want robots to do, CEO YT Jia told me. That's why we need multiple robot form factors, he adds.
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Seeing Is Believing: How Operational Insights Are Advancing With Physical AI
Manufacturing still investigates defects by asking what people remember. Industrial AI can't learn from that. Why the operational record has to be observed, not typed.
ByNatan Linder,
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The Next Factory Interface May Be A Pair Of Glasses, If We’re Smart
Smart glasses in manufacturing can boost training, safety and productivity by bringing hands-free AI guidance to factory workers—if companies set clear rules first.
ByEthan Karp,
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The Fed Just Raised Rates. What Happens To Additive Manufacturing Now?
How will the increase in federal interest rates impact the global manufacturing industry.
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Agility Launches Digit 5: No More Safety Cages, $300 Million In Orders
Agility Robotics is launching Digit 5, its next-generation humanoid robot that can work with humans outside the cage.
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Construction Robots Just Took A Giant Leap Forward: Hello Holy Grail Of Robotics
Zinova makes physical AI called "Tool Intelligence" for construction robots. It might just be a giant leap forward in a space where robots have generally disappointed.
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34,000 Pre-Orders, $2.4 Billion Pipeline: Inside Europe’s Newest Humanoid Robot Unicorn
A young UK humanoid robot startup already has order pipeline of $2.4 billion ... and a very unique plan to scale production to hundreds of thousands of units annually.
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Inside The European Factory Where Robots Are Building Robots
“Every single person on the planet will get a personal robot,” the founder and CEO of Agile Robots told me in Munich last week. “This is not going to be very far away."
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OpenAI Is Making A Humanoid Robot. Sam Altman Says Everyone Should Have One
The maker of ChatGPT is now committed to making humanoid and other types of robots, not just the AI that powers their brains.
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Why I've Never Been More Optimistic About American Manufacturing
American manufacturing is undergoing a significant transformation, and while the workforce gap is real, transforming the outdated assumptions about manufacturing can help.
ByDave Evans,
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