Hitachi and FANUC partner to deploy physical AI in factories
The Japanese industrial giants will combine HMAX Industry software with autonomous robot arms, scheduling global commercial…
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All companies →Fanuc
Every EAB briefing that touches Fanuc — capital spending, plants, M&A, earnings and policy exposure. 20 briefings.
- First seen
- August 28, 2026
- Latest
- October 9, 2026
- With a linked document
- 18 of 20
- Subject of the briefing
- 13
- Named as exposed
- 7
- Desks
- Robotics (18), Trade & Policy (2)
Hitachi and FANUC Launch Physical AI Pact to Automate Plants
The partnership integrates Hitachi's HMAX Industry platform and custom edge chips into FANUC robots, targeting commercial…
Korean and Japanese Yards Deploy Welding Robots to Docks
Shipbuilders turn to automated vision-guided welding arms and mobile carriers to defend production schedules as Chinese yards…
Kawasaki Heavy advances 2030 target for AI humanoid robots
The machinery maker plans to integrate domestic AI platform Noetra into its 30-kilogram payload Kaleido model, accelerating…
Fanuc previews 11-kg welding cobots for shipyards at Fabtech 2026
The CRX-3iA joins a wave of portable arms entering heavy fabrication, following HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' deployment of 35…
Hitachi and Fanuc form physical AI alliance to run factories
The partnership pairs HMAX Industry software with industrial robots across Hitachi plants before commercial deployment to…
Inbolt raises $12.5 million for robot vision in auto plants
The French robotics startup will deploy 3D vision guidance across automotive manufacturing lines in the United States and the…
AMT Deploys FANUC CRX-30iA Cobots for $120,000 Palletizing
The 30-kilogram payload cells eliminate safety fences in logistics and food packaging lines while offering operational payback…
FANUC India links industrial robots to Niral Networks private 5G
The partnership validates an on-premises wireless architecture achieving 5.6-millisecond latency and 700 Mbps throughput across…
ABB targets end-of-line palletizing with heavy-payload PoWa cobots
Industrial packaging lines adopt higher-payload collaborative arms as the global collaborative palletizing market expands toward…
EnPower, Echion agree to build US robotics battery cells
The Indianapolis plant will pair niobium anodes with ceramic separators to give industrial robots rapid charging and 10,000-cycle…
FANUC debuts Physical AI robotics for flexible factory lines
The Japanese automation giant demonstrated autonomous mobile cobots and generative vision models in Chicago to eliminate rigid…
Estun buys humanoid robot maker Codroid for 487 million yuan
The transaction folds the loss-making developer into full balance sheet consolidation alongside a 620 million yuan revenue…
Fanuc and Google launch AI welding robot to read blueprints
The system eliminates manual teaching by turning 2D and 3D schematics into robot motion, with commercial shipments planned for…
Estun Automation completes buyout of robotics unit CodroidMembers
The Chinese industrial robotics maker paid 487 million yuan in cash to bring collaborative arms and embodied AI software in-house…
FANUC widens CRX cobot palletizing to 40 kg as food plants automate heavy cases
A high-flow pneumatic upgrade pushes the CRX-30iA into washdown packaging lines, lifting collaborative capacity as the hygienic…
Bigwave Robotics partners with automation suppliers to scale US physical AI
South Korean robotics platform integrator forms commercial alliances with FANUC, Rockwell Automation and Rainbow Robotics to…
Japan accelerates grants for rare-earth-reduced robot motor magnets under economic security act
METI enforces tightened supply-plan standards for heavy-rare-earth substitution and drive-motor manufacturing lines across…
Harmonic Drive expands Japanese reducer capacity for humanoid robotics demand
Capital expenditure at the Hotaka plant targets high-torque strain wave gears to clear joint actuator bottlenecks across…
China Antimonopoly Review Imposes Harsher Operational Remedies on Automation Mergers
State regulators use conditional merger approvals to secure domestic supply guarantees and intellectual property access across…