industrial automation News
Latest industrial automation news and analysis — 67 articles tagged industrial automation on The Robotics Media.
- XGSynBot Z1 Wheeled Humanoid Makes European Debut At IFA Berlin 2026 — — China's XGSynBot brought its Z1 wheeled humanoid robot to IFA Berlin 2026's IFA Next hall on September 4, pitching a modular six-second tool swap and...
- Pudu Robotics Launches MP2000 AI-Native Autonomous Pallet Handler — — Pudu Robotics unveiled the MP2000, an AI-native pallet-handling robot with 2,000 kg capacity, 3D LiDAR perception and fork-in in as little as 20 secon...
- FANUC Debuts 11 kg CRX-3iA Ultra-Lightweight Collaborative Robot — — FANUC America has expanded its CRX cobot lineup with the CRX-3iA, an 11 kg ultra-lightweight collaborative robot with a 3 kg payload and 692 mm reach...
- Nexcom Debuts RoboWIZ Open AI Robotics Platform With ITRI At Automation Taipei — — Nexcom unveiled its RoboWIZ open AI robotics platform on August 19 at Automation Taipei with ITRI and a dozen Taiwan partners to standardize humanoid,...
- 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...
- Molex Debuts MiniMix, the World's Smallest Hybrid Connector for Humanoid Robot Joints — — Molex's new 5.65mm-profile MiniMix combines 15A power and 1Gbps Ethernet into a single interface, targeting the joints of next-generation humanoid rob...
- Tate Rolls Out 58 Hirebotics Cobot Welders Across Three Data-Center Plants — — Tate has deployed 58 Hirebotics Cobot Welders across Arkansas, Virginia and Kentucky facilities, reporting a 12x per-welder throughput gain on structu...
- KUKA And Contoro Bring AdaptAI Trailer Unloading To States Logistics California DC — — KUKA and Contoro Robotics deployed an AI-powered semi-trailer unloading cell at States Logistics, doubling per-shift throughput to four to five traile...
- Multiway Robotics Automates 5,000-Location Malaysian Warehouse With Autonomous Forklift Fleet — — Multiway Robotics has completed an intralogistics automation project for a Malaysian manufacturer, running a fleet of MW-K16, X20 and MW-SL14 forklift...
- HII, HD HHI Deploy Intelligent Welding Robots at Ingalls Shipbuilding — — HII and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will install intelligent mechanized welding systems in unit-fabrication areas at Ingalls Shipbuilding, extending U...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- GRITR Sports Opens 69-Robot Warehouse In Texas With Quicktron — — Outdoor e-commerce operator GRITR Sports has opened a next-generation robot-powered fulfillment center in Arlington, Texas, deploying 69 Quicktron aut...
- SkyIntelligence Deepens Physical AI Ties With NVIDIA And ABB At WAIC — — Shanghai physical-AI company SkyIntelligence joined a joint NVIDIA and ABB Robotics white paper on high-precision manufacturing at the 2026 World Arti...
- 1872 Opens First Autonomous Steel Fabrication Factory With $15M Seed — — Cincinnati-based 1872, founded by three former SpaceX engineers, closed a $15M seed led by The O.H.I.O. Fund to run what it calls the first advanced a...
- Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B For Industrial Physical AI, Uber Joins In — — Travis Kalanick's rebranded physical-AI company Atoms closed a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board and...
- Mech-Mind Demos Multi-Robot Humanoid Collaboration At WAIC 2026 — — Mech-Mind Robotics ran the first public demonstration of multi-robot humanoid collaboration in an industrial setting at WAIC 2026 and unveiled its Mec...
- Yaskawa And SoftBank Validate MOTOMAN NEXT Physical AI On Deformable Wire Harnesses — — Yaskawa and SoftBank Corp on 13 July validated a Physical AI system that has the MOTOMAN NEXT robot pick and box irregular wire harnesses, using SoftB...
- Durst and TUM Venture Labs Launch Multi-Year Robotics and AI Partnership — — South Tyrol's Durst Group has joined TUM Venture Labs in Munich as a Platinum Partner in a multi-year robotics, AI and industrial automation collabora...