Tag: Manufacturing
AgiBot proposes a robot metric built on hours rather than units
The Shanghai humanoid maker unveiled hardware, foundation models and a formula it hopes will replace shipment counts as…
Palantir Foundry veterans land $66M to put factories on autopilot
Lumaril raised a Series A at a $400M valuation to sell software that adjusts production setpoints on top…
Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $230M to put agents on factory floors
The former OpenAI research chief's startup is valued at $1.5B for agent software that rebuilds assembly lines on…
Applied Materials opens a $5B chip research center in Silicon Valley
The equipment giant is pooling engineers from across the industry into one facility to shorten chipmaking development cycles.
Tesla’s Optimus push runs into wary factory workers
Employees who wore motion-capture suits to teach the humanoid its jobs knew what the data was for, according…
Toyota weighs a 400,000 robot push worth $6.4B a year
The automaker told investors that wider automation could need 400,000 robots and about $6.4B a year starting in…
Vantora banks $100M to build AI ventures it never sells
The startup factory once called UP.Labs will now let corporate partners keep the companies it builds.
Crusoe doubles down on Tulsa with a second components plant
Crusoe has opened a second Tulsa factory making the switchgear and busbar that sit underneath its AI campuses.
NVIDIA hands factory allocations to a planner built with Palantir
NVIDIA's operations team now uses a Palantir Foundry command center and its own cuOpt solver to decide weekly…
SpaceX secret foundry targets the part throttling AI power
Musk confirms the Texas SpaceX foundry is casting the gas turbine blades that AI power buildout depends on.
Ford Brings Back Veteran Engineers After AI Quality Checks Falter
Ford rehired over 300 veteran engineers to train its AI systems after the technology failed to catch quality…