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28 articles, newest first. Last updated 27 Oct 2026.

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BMW passes one million cars moved driverless inside its plants

MINI Plant Oxford is the fourth site to run Automated Driving In-Plant, after Dingolfing, Leipzig and Regensburg. The system, built with Swiss start-up Embotech, goes to Spartanburg next.

27 Oct 2026

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Manufacturing

AGCO to pilot Agility's Digit humanoid at its Kansas plant in 2027

20 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

Germany signs a physical AI pact with NVIDIA; Agile Robots gets backing

20 Oct 2026

Humanoid Robots

NEURA Robotics launches Neuron AI, a robot model that hears and feels

20 Oct 2026

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Manufacturing

Hyundai and Kia show 200 factory technologies for software-defined plants

E-FOREST TECH DAY at the Uiwang research institute showed digital twins of real equipment, AI agents for factory staff and an in-house vision system for inspecting finished cars, all to be rolled out in Korea and abroad.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

SPRIND's robotics challenge closes 22 October with up to €7.2m a team

Germany's innovation agency also has an AI chip design challenge with the Dutch NADI, worth up to €9.6 million a team and open to 30 November, plus quantum sensing and biomanufacturing calls.

20 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

Siemens and NVIDIA run AI planning agents in Erlangen factory

An agent proposes production plans and tests them in a digital twin, and synthetic images train PCB inspection before prototypes exist; Siemens claims up to 85% less engineering effort on ramp-up.

19 Oct 2026

Surgical and Medical Robots

MassRobotics opens its healthcare robotics catalyst to cohort six

A four-month, non-equity programme for robotics start-ups in healthcare and life sciences. Applications close on 31 December, and the cohort runs from February to June 2027.

17 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

Agility's Digit 5 humanoid will recharge in nine minutes after 90 minutes' work

Nyobolt supplies the battery. Agility expects early access in the first half of 2027, with broader availability in the following six to nine months.

15 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

Siemens will run Galp's 100 MW Sines hydrogen plant from a digital twin

The plant is designed for up to 15,000 tonnes of renewable hydrogen a year, and Siemens estimates its software can save up to 15 percent of the energy used.

8 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

Doosan Robotics wins two Korean Physical AI projects worth KRW 98.9 billion

About KRW 68.1 billion of the budget is government money. One project builds cobots with on-device AI chips, the other an AI welding system for Doosan Enerbility.

6 Oct 2026

Automation

Two wholesalers report what Exotec Skypod robots changed for them

First Supply picks about ten times faster than by hand, while TRUSCO NAKAYAMA's 89,162 square metre centre runs 37 Skypod robots across 31,975 bins.

6 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

euRobotics asks Brussels to challenge the US ban on foreign-made robots

An open letter calls the FCC restriction "geographic discrimination" and asks the Commission to raise it in EU-US trade and technology dialogues. It was coordinated by board member Carlos Vivas.

1 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

Teradyne Robotics sues a JAKA unit over patents and settles with Elite

The Copenhagen case could produce a ruling covering 17 of the 18 Unified Patent Court states. The Elite Robots dispute ended by confidential agreement with no admission of liability.

1 Oct 2026

Manufacturing

FANUC and Hitachi team up to put learning robots into real production

Hitachi plants in the Ibaraki region serve as the proving ground, and customer deployments are planned from fiscal 2027. FANUC also announced a Google collaboration in May.

30 Sept 2026

Humanoid Robots

IFR: professional service robot sales climb 24% as logistics leads

About 7,000 full-size humanoids were sold for professional use in 2025, and consumer service robots reached almost 34.2 million units, up 37 percent.

30 Sept 2026

Manufacturing

Industrial robots in factories pass five million worldwide

China installed 354,000 of the 600,000 new units while the US overtook Japan, and the federation forecasts 655,000 installations next year and 806,000 by 2029.

24 Sept 2026

Manufacturing

Boston Dynamics opens a Georgia centre to train Atlas humanoids on car work

The testbed sits inside Hyundai's Metaplant near Savannah and moves to a building about ten times larger in 2027. Hyundai Motor Group plans 25,000 Atlas units.

21 Sept 2026

Manufacturing

P&G takes Siemens-built AI quality inspection to plants worldwide

Siemens says the Visual Inspection Cockpit is commissioned five to ten times faster than bespoke vision systems. It runs on Industrial Edge with Nvidia GPU industrial PCs.

16 Sept 2026

Automation

GXO and Exotec run 127 robots to pick Guess orders from Venlo

The Skypod system with 60,000 rack locations handles 40,000 to 70,000 pieces a day for the fashion brand, serving EMEA and Asia, with peaks of 2,200 order lines an hour.

15 Sept 2026

Collaborative Robots

Universal Robots launches Gen 7 platform with AI-ready arms

The Teradyne company redesigns controller, pendant and tool flange around PolyScope X, and adds three g-Series arms; the CB7 Core controller ships at launch, other availability is not given.

14 Sept 2026

Humanoid Robots

FCC bars new foreign-made mobile robots from US authorisation

Models already authorised keep selling and operating, and fixed industrial arms, drones, connected vehicles and medical devices fall outside the definition. A conditional approval route stays open.

28 Jul 2026

Manufacturing

Yamaha adds YE4 and YE10 SCARA robots for Asia and an Indian sales arm

The 4 kg and 10 kg SCARA models cycle in about 0.4 seconds. Two months earlier Yamaha opened a robotics sales and service division with a showroom in India.

23 Jul 2026

Manufacturing

Yaskawa builds a robot hub in Slovenia and pairs Motoman with Gemini

The Kocevje investment is about 5 billion yen and lifts manipulator capacity to 850 units a month. A separate agentic robot system uses Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 1.6.

15 Jul 2026

Humanoid Robots

UBTECH names Terra Robotics its DACH distributor for Walker S2 humanoids

Terra, backed by Wortmann, bought several dozen robots for a long-term pilot that includes ROSSMANN logistics centres. UBTECH says it sold 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025.

13 Jul 2026

Manufacturing

US industrial robot installations rise 11% to 38,000 units, says IFR

Food-industry installations jumped 30 percent while automotive slipped 1 percent. The US now ranks eighth for robot density, with 307 robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees.

18 Jun 2026

Logistics

Swiss firm Verity wins robotics innovation award for warehouse drones

Verity's indoor drones are deployed in about 200 warehouses and capture roughly 500,000 images a day. The IFR also named finalists and announced a Global Robotics Award for 2027.

16 Jun 2026

Manufacturing

China's five-year plan puts AI-powered robots at its centre

About 2 million industrial robots already run in Chinese factories, and local suppliers hold 57 percent of the home market, but the federation says humanoids remain demonstrators and pilots.

5 May 2026

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