manufacturing

ASML's CTO reveals plans to build packaging, bonding, and inspection tools that move the company beyond EUV lithography and into the broader AI semiconductor supply chain.

Xiaomi's humanoid robots completed three hours of autonomous assembly work at its EV plant, hitting a 90.2 percent success rate and meeting the 76-second production cycle, as CEO Lei Jun pledges large-scale factory deployment within five years.

The Austin startup closes a $520M Series A extension backed by Google, Mercedes-Benz, and John Deere, bringing its war chest to $935M as it races to commercialize Apollo humanoid robots while China commands 90 percent of global shipments.