UBTECH opens humanoid robot plant with 10,000-unit capacity
The Liuzhou facility runs an assembly cadence of one machine every 10 minutes, deploying digital twins and autonomous transport across automotive production lines.
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South Korea faces 70% foreign reliance on humanoid robot parts
Actuator supply chains expose humanoid builders to Japan for strain-wave gears and China for rare-earth motor magnets.
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…
KT deploys 5G AI welding robots at HD Hyundai Samho yard
A 16 billion won state-backed trial links private 5G standalone networks and AI radio access nodes to automate block fabrication…
Hanwha Ocean taps Maum AI for shipyard welding automationMembers
The 11-month research contract equals 21.52% of Maum AI's 2025 revenue and supports Hanwha Ocean's broader push to fully automate…
Celanese and VIGOR partner to cut robot joint weight by 30% in China
The strategic materials tie-up targets steel replacement across humanoid actuators, pairing engineered polymers with transmission…
HD Hyundai Robotics backs sensor maker AIDIN in $12M round
The 16 billion won financing funds five-fingered robotic hands and surface-treatment tools to replace manual labor across…
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…
Doosan Robotics targets 2028 humanoid trials on factory lines
The South Korean cobot builder aims to deploy worker-mimicking humanoid prototypes in 2028, combining proprietary torque sensors…
Samsung Medical Center tests dual humanoid surgical robots
The 13.84 billion won state project deploys two collaborative machines alongside a human lead surgeon in a simulated operating…
Samsung SDS develops robot orchestration platform for 2027
The IT services unit formed the Team REX alliance with 10 hardware makers to automate 1,000 internal lines and link legacy…
FANUC America links factory robots to Palladyne AI platform
The partnership integrates the Palladyne IQ platform into industrial manipulators to give production lines closed-loop autonomy…
Samsung develops humanoid robot prototype before 2027 debut
The South Korean technology company coordinates robot hardware and software under a unified division while preparing factory…
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 UK restructures sales leadership to target aerospace and defense
The Japanese robotics maker's British unit named a dedicated account manager for aerospace on Sept.
Japan robot makers target logging and biology labs as domestic workforce shrinks
Nippon Signal and Yaskawa Electric are deploying specialized dual-arm automatons to tackle severe labor shortages across railway…
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…
China RV reducer makers expand heavy-duty robot market share as national testing standards take hold
Chinese gear manufacturers push domestic substitution in 6-axis articulated robot joints past 80% using unified precision…
Korean battery equipment makers deploy vision robots to cut cell stacking time
Assembly lines adopt real-time optical alignment to eliminate electrode defects and lower unit cycle times across pouch cell…
Chinese chipmakers ramp real-time Ethernet SoCs for industrial robot controllers
Integrated EtherCAT silicon from GigaDevice, HPMicro and Nations Technologies replaces imported controllers, cutting board size…