Automotive Manufacturing News
Latest Automotive Manufacturing news and analysis — 35 articles tagged Automotive Manufacturing on The Robotics Media.
- Toyota To Spend $6.4B A Year Deploying 400,000 Robots From 2028 — — Toyota will spend roughly 1 trillion yen a year from 2028 rolling out 400,000 humanoid and specialist robots across 60 global plants, using 18,000 tak...
- O-ID Raises $1.2M Pre-Seed to Move Modular Humanoid Robots Into Japanese Factories — — TAWANI Ventures led a $1.2M pre-seed round in Tokyo-based O-ID, whose hot-swappable modular humanoid targets Japanese factories facing an 11-million-w...
- Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 Launches Sept 24 With ADS 5, Books 20K Orders In A Day — — The Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 launches September 24 from 299,800 yuan, ships Huawei Qiankun ADS 5 with four LiDAR units standard, and has already bo...
- Nio 3rd-Gen ES8 Hits 150,000 Deliveries In One Year, Sweeps China’s Premium SUV Chart — — Nio’s third-gen ES8 reached 150,000 cumulative deliveries on September 20, 2026, exactly one year after launch, locking in a lead in China’s 400,000-y...
- Volkswagen Launches ID.AURA T6, Its First LiDAR-Equipped EV, In China From 9,240 — — Volkswagen has launched the ID.AURA T6 in China from 129,900 yuan (~9,240), its first production EV with a 192-channel LiDAR wired to a Horizon Roboti...
- Dongfeng To Trial-Produce Xiaodong Humanoid By Year-End, Targets Human-Parity In 2027 — — Dongfeng Motor will begin small-batch trial production of its Xiaodong humanoid robot at the end of 2026 and wants it working alongside plant staff by...
- Honda And Nissan Team Up On Shared ECUs And Vehicle OS For 2029 Software-Defined Cars — — Japan's number two and three automakers signed a joint development pact to standardize core ECUs, an in-vehicle OS and vehicle-control software from f...
- BMW Turns On Physical AI In Europe With Hexagon's AEON Humanoid In Leipzig — — BMW Group has switched on its first European humanoid deployment at Plant Leipzig using Hexagon Robotics' AEON, and opened a Center of Competence for...
- Xen Project Launches Safety Committee To Certify Hypervisor For Robots And Cars — — The Xen Project launched a Safety Committee anchored by AMD, EPAM and Renesas to develop shared engineering artifacts for IEC 61508 certification of i...
- Ford Fathom Electric Truck Undercuts $30K, Ships In Fall 2027 With BlueCruise — — Ford's second EV truck — the first vehicle on its cost-cutting Universal EV Platform — will start at $28,350, ship in fall 2027 and arrive BlueCruise-...
- Toyota Signs On As Equal Partner In cellcentric Hydrogen Truck JV With Daimler And Volvo — — Toyota has agreed to acquire a one-third stake in cellcentric, turning the Daimler Truck-Volvo Group hydrogen fuel cell joint venture into a three-way...
- 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...
- China's First Solid-State Battery Standard Takes Effect, Dongfeng Leads Factory Race — — China's first national standard for automotive solid-state batteries, GB/T 43568-2026, took effect on July 1, forcing carmakers to prove real factory...
- SK On And Hyundai Open $5B Bartow Battery Cell Plant To Feed Georgia Metaplant — — SK On and Hyundai Motor Group's $5 billion 50/50 EV battery cell joint venture in Bartow County has begun initial production and will ramp to 35 GWh a...
- Hyundai Union Stages First-Ever Strike Over Humanoid Robots — — About 35,000 Hyundai workers cut shifts short for three days demanding a labor-management agreement before any Atlas or other humanoid enters a Korean...
- Xiaomi's Humanoid Robots Move From Lab To EV Factory Floor — — Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun released fresh video of the company's humanoid robots sorting centre console covers on a live automotive production line, marking t...
- Mitsubishi Motors, Highlanders Ink MOU To Mass-Produce Humanoid Robots At Kyoto Plant — — Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo startup Highlanders will jointly develop humanoid robots for Mitsubishi's factories and mass-produce Highlan...
- XPENG Unveils X-Mind Predictive World Model at CVPR 2026 — — XPENG's General Intelligence chief Xianming Liu used the CVPR 2026 workshop stage to unveil X-Mind, a Visual Chain-of-Thought world model that lets au...
- GM Adds 50 Fanuc Cobots at Factory Zero Months After Cutting 1,000 Workers — — General Motors has installed roughly 50 Fanuc collaborative robots at its Detroit Factory Zero EV plant to attach body panels, drawing a UAW Local 22...
- BMW Group deploys Figure 03 humanoid in Spartanburg logistics — — After an 11-month Figure 02 pilot that supported 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles, BMW will deploy Figure.AI's Figure 03 humanoid for a parts-sequencing job at...