Category Industry News

A new industrial AI shift is moving from software and humanoids to task-specific machines, with direct implications for robotic welding cells, cobot deployment, and factory competitiveness.

Gravis Robotics has raised $200 million from SoftBank to expand autonomous heavy machinery in construction, highlighting broader investment momentum in field robotics and adjacent industrial automation.

Tate has scaled from manual welding to a 58-unit cobot welding network across three plants, highlighting how connected automation can raise throughput, quality, and labor flexibility.

igus has introduced a self-supporting twisterchain for industrial robots, designed to manage cables through more than 600° of rotation and simplify maintenance.

Context platforms are emerging as a governed layer that helps industrial AI agents work safely and reliably in production, with clear implications for robotic welding cells and cobot deployment.

Ency Software and Stäubli Robotics have signed a global agreement aimed at faster, more accessible robot programming, with clear implications for welding cell deployment and changeovers.

CamThink’s NeoEyes NE503 brings 20 TOPS of on-device AI and 4K vision to industrial inspection, with potential gains for 3D guidance, weld quality control, and low-latency automation.

RealSense’s new D585 depth camera combines on-device AI, 20 m range and close-range sensing, with implications for robotic welding, seam tracking and flexible cell automation.

Flexiv’s new Enlight and Mico adaptive robots add force control, tactile sensing and physical AI, with implications for welding cell design, fixturing and human-robot collaboration.

Kawasaki Robotics used Automate 2026 to show how Physical AI, 8-axis robot kinematics, vision and weld inspection could reshape industrial automation and welding cell design.