Automation News
Latest Automation news and analysis — 97 articles tagged Automation on The Robotics Media.
- Zoox Turns On The Meter In Las Vegas With 2,500-Vehicle NHTSA Exemption — — Amazon-owned Zoox began charging for driverless rides in Las Vegas on August 10 after NHTSA granted a two-year commercial exemption covering up to 2,5...
- IBM Closes HRL Laboratories Buy To Add Silicon-Spin Qubits To Quantum Stack — — IBM has closed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, adding silicon-spin qubit expertise, quantum sensing and advanced cryogenics to a roadmap that alr...
- Anthropic Opens Model Hardware Standard To Let Claude Run Lab Robots — — Anthropic previewed the Model Hardware Standard, a shared driver spec that lets AI agents like Claude discover and safely operate microscopes, liquid...
- CATL Cuts Out Distributors With $63/kWh Direct LFP Cells As 1,800 Firms Join CATL Mall — — China's CATL says over 1,800 energy storage companies have registered on its direct-sales CATL Mall platform, where 314 Ah LFP energy storage cells no...
- SUPCON And Certis Join Forces To Scale Security Robots Into Live Operations — — China's SUPCON Technology and Singapore's Certis Group sign a strategic cooperation to move security robots from stand-alone trials into 24/7 operatio...
- TIER IV Joins Open Invention Network 2.0 To Shield Autoware From Patent Risk — — Japan's TIER IV, the pioneer behind the open-source Autoware stack for autonomous driving, has joined Open Invention Network 2.0, gaining a royalty-fr...
- SANY Ships First Batch Of Autonomous Electric Mining Trucks To South America — — SANY Group has shipped its first fleet of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks and intelligent dispatching system to a South American mine,...
- A3: North American Robot Orders Up 4% In Q2 As Non-Auto Takes Over — — North American companies ordered 8,940 industrial robots worth $622M in Q2 2026, with 56% now going to non-automotive customers as electronics, life s...
- GE And Philips Investigate Clop Ransomware Claims As PTC Flaw Bites — — General Electric and Philips are investigating claims by the Clop ransomware gang that it stole data via a zero-day in PTC's Windchill and FlexPLM pla...
- TechForce Robotics Signs LOI with NBR for Up to 5,000 Factory Robotic Systems — — TechForce Robotics and Singapore's NBR Intelligence signed a strategic LOI targeting up to 5,000 AI-enhanced robotic systems across NBR-connected fact...
- Robot Orders Rise 4.3% In Q2 As Non-Auto Demand Broadens, A3 Reports — — North American companies ordered 8,940 robots worth $622M in Q2 2026, up 4.3% in units and 21.3% in revenue, with semiconductors, life sciences and fo...
- Terminal Closes $20M Series A to Unify Fleet Telematics Data — — Terminal closed a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures with Penske and Intact Private Capital joining, to scale its unified API for commercial trucki...
- Brady Closes $1.4B Buy Of Honeywell PSS To Become Industrial Tech Giant — — Brady Corporation has closed its $1.4 billion all-cash acquisition of Honeywell Technologies' Productivity Solutions and Services business, adding bar...
- Exclaim Robotics Exits Stealth With $4.95M To Maintain AI Data Centers — — Zurich-based Exclaim Robotics has raised $4.95 million in pre-seed funding co-led by Founderful and Playfair Capital to build autonomous mobile robots...
- Figure Rolls 1,000th Figure 03 Humanoid Off Its BotQ Line — — Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced on July 23, 2026 that the company's BotQ facility has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid robot, marked by a...
- KUKA Fires Up AMP At Toledo Jeep Plant, Bringing Physical AI To Assembly — — KUKA has flipped the switch on its Automation Management Platform at KUKA Toledo Production Operations, layering AI orchestration over 285 robots that...
- Atlas Adds Second Permian Load-Out, Charts Path To 100 Kodiak Driverless Trucks By Mid-2027 — — Atlas Energy Solutions is running Kodiak-powered driverless trucks from two Dune Express load-outs at once and plans to scale the fleet from 28 to 100...
- TechForce Robotics Launches 'Robotic Connective Network' To Coordinate Multi-Vendor Robot Fleets — — Nightfood-owned TechForce Robotics has unveiled the Robotic Connective Network, a coordination layer that lets autonomous robots, sensors, LLMs and vi...
- Infleqtion To Deploy Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer At Illinois Park — — Infleqtion said it will deliver a fault-tolerant, NVIDIA NVQLink-integrated neutral-atom quantum computer to the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics P...
- SAXON Q Ships First 100+ Qubit Room-Temperature Diamond Quantum Computers — — Leipzig-based SAXON Q announced commercial availability of the 128-qubit SXQ128 and 512-qubit SXQ512, the first diamond nitrogen-vacancy quantum compu...