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Flex and Teradyne Robotics expanded a partnership that deploys AI-driven cobots inside Flex production facilities while making Flex a manufacturing partner for Teradyne hardware — a bidirectional deal signaling physical AI has become core production infrastructure, not a pilot.
Jeff Bezos broke his silence on Project Prometheus, describing his $38 billion AI startup as building an artificial general engineer — a next-generation design tool for physical objects.
GFT has launched an AI-powered robotic system that physically repositions or removes defective components on automotive assembly lines — moving from passive AI monitoring to autonomous physical action.
China installs 295,000 industrial robots annually versus 34,200 in the US — an 8.6-to-1 gap that signals the US-China AI competition is moving from model benchmarks to factory floors.
Launchpad Build AI has released a manufacturing-specific language model that lets engineers design and program factory automation systems in plain English — targeting the skilled-programmer shortage slowing industrial modernization.
Capital is shifting from AI ag hype to measurable farm-level ROI, with AI combined with precision genetics emerging as the highest-conviction investment theme at World Agri-Tech 2026.
World models — AI systems that simulate physical reality rather than predict text — are emerging as the technology that could unlock robots, autonomous vehicles, and scientific simulation at scale. Nature calls 2026 a pivotal year.
Intrinsic CEO Stefan Nusser says conventional factory automation is too expensive and inflexible for most manufacturers — and AI-driven systems configurable by generalists are rewriting the economics.
UK robotics startup Humanoid has signed a binding Robot-as-a-Service agreement with Schaeffler to deploy 1,000–2,000 wheeled humanoid robots across global manufacturing facilities by 2032 — one of the largest humanoid robot deployments ever announced.
45% of manufacturers have live IIoT connectivity; manufacturer interest in large language models jumped from 16% to 35% in one year. The three-technology convergence of AI, IoT, and robotics is now operational infrastructure, not a roadmap item.
NVIDIA's Omniverse platform is now powering factory digital twins and autonomous robotics at Foxconn, Toyota, TSMC, Caterpillar, and Lucid Motors — the most concrete test yet of physical AI in American manufacturing.
China has embedded AI-powered robotics at the center of its 15th Five-Year Plan, directing state investment toward physical AI systems in factories, logistics, and construction.
NVIDIA has launched a sweeping partnership initiative to deploy AI-driven factories across the U.S., framing the push as reindustrialization — not just automation.
BMW has put the AEON humanoid robot to work at its Leipzig plant for material delivery — the first humanoid deployment in a BMW German production facility, marking a shift from demo to actual manufacturing integration.
Most manufacturers have spent years and billions on automation—but productivity gains have plateaued. A new analysis argues agentic AI is the connective intelligence that factories are missing.
HII launched the HYPR program with Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics — combining AI welding, autonomous surface treatment, and automated inspection to target a 15% Navy production increase.
An A3 survey finds 86% of manufacturers view AI as the dominant driver of business transformation through 2030. LLM adoption in industrial settings doubled to 35% in a single year.
Sony AI's Project Ace built a robot that defeats elite human table tennis players under real-world conditions — published on the cover of Nature. The manufacturing implications reach far beyond sports.
Humble Robotics emerged from stealth with a $24M seed round and a ground-up cabless autonomous electric hauler targeting dock-to-dock freight on fixed routes — a narrower use case that may prove more deployable than general autonomous trucking.
NVIDIA and Siemens showed a wheeled humanoid robot completing real logistics tasks inside a working electronics factory at Hannover Messe 2026 — compressing two years of development into seven months via simulation-first training.