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Intrinsic, folded into Google's core operations in February, debuted the Intrinsic Intelligence Cell at Automate 2026; Foxconn will pilot a customized version for electronics assembly later this year.

Washington startup Besxar is flying microwave-oven-sized 'Fabship' pods on Falcon 9 boosters, the first of 12 SpaceX flights testing whether the vacuum of space can produce purer semiconductor substrates.

Qcells began making solar cells at its Cartersville, Georgia plant, the first US factory to produce ingots, wafers, cells and modules under one roof.

India's Minister of Heavy Industries confirmed on May 19 that Tesla will not build a manufacturing facility in India, closing a decade-long saga defined by tariff standoffs and weak sales.

A new national coalition of robotics and AI companies launched at the SCSP AI+ Expo, organized at the request of the White House and Congress to address the US manufacturing competitiveness gap.

A May 13 deal pairs a Robot-as-a-Service deployment running through 2032 with a five-year actuator supply agreement that makes Schaeffler the preferred supplier for more than half of Humanoid's joint actuators.

World's largest electronics manufacturer acknowledges cyberattack claimed by Nitrogen ransomware group on North American factories; attackers allege 8 TB data theft including confidential schematics for Apple, Nvidia, Google and others, with production now resuming.

Figure AI reports its California BotQ line scaled from one Figure 03 per day to one per hour in under 120 days, shipping over 350 robots with 80% first-pass yield.

NVIDIA and SAP turned the German trade fair into a roll call of humanoids running real logistics and assembly tasks inside factories — HMND 01 at Siemens, AEON at BMW Leipzig — wired into enterprise software through SAP's Joule agent layer.

Researchers from TU Delft, HKU, and SUSTech published separate Nature Materials studies showing that interface engineering and controlled lattice distortion can simultaneously boost strength past 3 GPa and preserve meaningful ductility in martensitic alloys.

Rivian began building its mass-market R2 SUV on April 22 despite an EF-1 tornado tearing through the Normal, Illinois factory five days earlier.

Honor's humanoid Lightning robot finished Beijing's half marathon in 50:26, beating the human world record and underscoring how quickly China's bipedal robotics field is improving.