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How Manufacturers Can Move from Basic Automation to Autonomous Material Movement in Production Logistics

For too long, material movement has been treated as a background function. But advanced motion and robotics are changing that by giving manufacturers the tools to treat material flow as a strategic and competitive lever that they can tune, optimize, and adapt.

Autonomous Mobile Picking Robots: Bridging the Gap Between Warehouse Automation and Retail Fulfillment

This article examines how an integrated autonomous picking system — combining a lightweight 6-DOF robotic arm, depth-camera-based vision, adaptive grasping, and intelligent task management — was developed and deployed to address these challenges.

Brushless DC (BLDC) Machines — Where They Outperform

Learn where Brushless DC (BLDC) machines outperform traditional drives in UAVs, robotics, e-bikes, & industrial drives, and how Mosrac helps optimize next-gen motion control.

The $500 Delivery Robot Is Coming — and It Will Reshape the Industry

Cheap AI accelerators and simulation-trained neural policies are about to collapse the cost of autonomous delivery. The business implications are bigger than the technical ones.

IDS: Digital precision transforms aircraft construction with Ensenso 3D vision

An Ensenso 3D camera integrated into an automated process chain ensures accurate detection and alignment of drilling positions in aircraft cabin assembly.

How Bin Picking AI Models are Trained

Learn how a bin picking AI model gets trained so you can confidently compare solutions. Here's what happens behind the scenes and what it means for your project.

From Demo to Deployment, Where Robotics Actually Fails

We’ve made remarkable progress in vision, but for true autonomy in unstructured worlds, the big gap is tactile intelligence. A robot can’t just see; it has to 'feel' pressure and tension to handle objects reliably, whether that’s a harvest arm or a medical device.

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139th Canton Fair Sets New Record with Overseas Buyer Attendance

The number of new products introduced rose 27%, and events for emerging future industries increased 30%. The fair also showcased AI-enabled scenarios for the first time, including robotic patrol inspections and drone flight demonstrations.

The Manufacturing Executive's New Shield: Closing the Records Liability Gap

Regulators are no longer content to penalize the company name on the factory gate; they are naming the specific executives who run the manufacturing floor.

Micro-Scale Robotics in the Medical Field: Precision Automation Meets Health Care Innovation

When people think about medical robotics, they may consider machinery that takes up most of a room, like MRI machines. The world of micro-scale robotics in health care has advanced just as significantly, enabled by enhancements in precision, data analytics and more.

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WIRobotics Secures Approximately KRW 100 Billion (USD 68 Million) Series B Funding

Accelerates Humanoid Commercialization and Expands from Wearables to Integrated Robotics Platforms

Industrial Robotics Market Report: Why Intelligent Automation Is Redefining Global Manufacturing

This growth reflects a deeper structural transformation unfolding across global manufacturing ecosystems. Rising labor shortages, supply chain volatility, increasing wage pressures, stricter quality requirements, and growing demand for faster production cycles are forcing manufacturers to rethink how factories operate.

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. Brings CNC and Robotics Expertise to Machine Tending

As manufacturers face skilled labor shortages, rising costs, and pressure to maximize machine utilization, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. (Mitsubishi Electric Automation) will showcase how robotic machine tending can deliver measurable productivity gains and fast returns on investment at IMTS 2026.

Mouser Highlights Medical Resource Center for Next-Generation, Deployable Healthcare Designs

This hub provides engineers and healthcare innovators with the resources to develop advanced medical technologies and stay informed on emerging trends shaping patient care.

AmbiStack Selected for 2026 RBR50 Awards, Marking Third Recognition for Ambi Robotics

AmbiStack was selected for its industry advancement in physical AI: the robot can stack uniform and non-uniform packages without prior knowledge of their size, position, or appearance using cameras, machine vision, and AI to identify items and strategically stack them onto pallets or into walled containers.

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Onward Robotics - Meet Me Fulfillment Automation

Onward Robotics - Meet Me Fulfillment Automation

Meet Me uniquely brings talent and technology together: providing end-to-end process efficiency and enabling accurate and continuous fulfillment workflows. Proprietary Pyxis technology uniquely orchestrates picker and Lumabot AMR workflows independently, delivering fast, accurate, and efficient fulfillment from induction to pack out. Learn more about Meet Me Automation: Download Overview Brochure

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FORT Robotics

FORT Robotics

We believe all smart machines are robots, and have set out to give companies control over the robot future. Our mission is to realize a world where automation leads to the betterment of humankind and humans and robots work side by side productively.