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6 best digital thread solutions for manufacturing
A digital thread is the connected record that links a product's data across its whole life, from design and engineering through manufacturing to service,...
6 top drone inspection software for wind turbine fleets
Inspecting one wind turbine with a drone is a solved problem. Inspecting four hundred turbines across a dozen sites, every year, on schedule, in...
Smart robots in healthcare: 5 ways they’re helping patients and doctors
Surgeons performed roughly 3,153,000 procedures with da Vinci systems in 2025, according to Intuitive's preliminary full-year results, about 18% more than in 2024. The...
Building a customer-centric business with better insights
Building a customer-centric business entails more than just providing a good product or service. Organizations must understand customers' thoughts on their products and services...
Will Tesla ship Optimus on schedule? What the magnet shortage tells us
Elon Musk has promised thousands of Optimus robots in a single year. He has also promised a million a year by around 2030. Neither...
8 service robots hotels and restaurants are actually deploying at scale in 2026
A German restaurant in Sanford, Florida is leasing a cat-faced food runner for $600 a month on a three-month trial. A Shanghai manufacturer has...
7 industrial exoskeletons turning “Physical AI” into a safety ROI case in 2026
OSHA has no exoskeleton-specific standard. Not a proposed one, not a draft — nothing. Employers evaluating these devices in 2026 are working entirely off...
Where the robotics money went: 10 warehouse automation startups leading the funding race
Two companies — Mytra and Sereact — accounted for roughly 69% of all disclosed warehouse robotics funding in early 2026. That's not a sign...
Top 5 disruptive technologies in the automotive industry 2026
A Growth Opportunity Perspective, styled on Frost & Sullivan's Mobility research format — a market-sizing, vendor-and-OEM-facing analysis. This is not an actual Frost &...
7 autonomous inspection drones ending the rope-access era in 2026
In June 2025, an executive order gave the FAA 240 days to finalize routine beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone rules. As of September 2026, that rule is...
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