Automotive Manufacturing News
Latest Automotive Manufacturing news and analysis — 29 articles tagged Automotive Manufacturing on The Robotics Media.
- 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...
- Li Auto Unveils 5nm Maha M100 Self-Driving Chip at 1,280 TOPS — — Chinese EV maker Li Auto detailed its in-house Maha M100, a 5nm automotive AI chip delivering 1,280 TOPS per unit and powering the dual-chip L9 Livis,...
- Autonomique Scales Physical AI Robots at Canada's F&P Manufacturing — — Physical AI startup Autonomique is moving its adaptable factory robots from pilot to production at Tier 1 automotive supplier F&P Manufacturing in Can...
- Sanctuary AI Hits 99.5% On Auto Wire Task With Physical AI — — Sanctuary AI says it achieved a 99.5%+ success rate at a 2.54-second cycle time on a complex wire-plugging task with a Tier 1 automotive supplier, val...
- Kawasaki Debuts 8-Axis RL030N Robot Built for Physical AI — — Kawasaki Robotics unveils the RL030N, billed as the industry's first 8-axis industrial robot designed for Physical AI, at Automate 2026 in Chicago.
- Indie Semiconductor Unveils iND881 Edge AI SoC For Automotive And Humanoid Cameras — — Indie Semiconductor has launched the iND881 edge AI system-on-chip, fusing an NPU, DSP and quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 with a low-latency multi-camera IS...
- Avride Crosses 60,000 Uber Trips In Dallas As Robotaxi Service Doubles Footprint — — Avride says its autonomous Hyundai Ioniq 5 fleet has completed more than 60,000 passenger trips on Uber in Dallas and logged 1.3 million autonomous mi...