With U.S. manufacturing orders, output, and productivity rising, IMTS 2026 gives manufacturers a firsthand look at the industrial AI, automation, additive, and digital technologies reshaping production. Check out our Special Coverage of this years event.
Quadruped robots have converged on a single silhouette. Watch three promotional videos back to back and you will see the same four legs, the same confident trot across gravel, the same recovery after a shove.
The head acts as a natural focal point for nearby workers. The lighting interface gives nearby workers an immediate visual indication of Atlas’s operational state, intended actions, and any system warnings.
Automotive plants have had robots for 40 years and integrators on retainer. Many electronics teams don't have that depth yet, and they're being asked to automate more and at a faster pace.
Today’s solutions are designed to reduce the complexity of deployment with standardized, configurable automation platforms that warehouses can get up and running — sometimes in as little as a day — with little to no software engineering required.
Most coverage of this research treats the gap as evidence that governance is behind schedule. Fewer accounts explain what closing it actually requires once the AI in question is not summarizing a report but deciding whether a robot should act on what it just detected.
As AI moves from labs into homes, warehouses, and factory floors, wireless connectivity has become as critical to a robot's intelligence as the AI model driving it. Here we look inside the low-latency, low-power, high-speed, multi-radio stack making embodied AI possible.
We have automated the movement of goods and the tracking of goods, but we have not yet automated the truth about goods. Closing that gap is the third wave of warehouse automation, and it is being driven by AI and computer vision.
Featuring 5,000+ storage locations, multi-model autonomous forklift collaboration, and 30%+ improvement in storage density, the solution enables efficient, scalable, and digitalized warehouse operations, supporting the customer's ongoing supply chain transformation.
Plants keep adding automation and robotics without fixing the underlying data foundation. Here's why that gap quietly caps the ROI on every new investment.
While there is real innovation happening, the driver of productivity growth for the near term does not lie in automation. It lies in training and upskilling and it will become an even bigger bottleneck for manufacturers across the automotive and machine-building industries.
Sunrise Robotics needs its autonomous cells to perform precise manipulation for high-mix manufacturing, including pick & place, positioning, and machine-tending operations in human-centric environments.
The integrated machine vision software MVTec MERLIC significantly enhances quality assurance in the assembly process by displaying all relevant information for assembling the component to the production worker, then verifying the process and documenting quality.
A mobile robot is a chain of compromises where the motor, gearbox, controller, battery, wheels, and mechanical layout constantly influence one another. Looking at any of them in isolation almost always leads to a second design iteration.
Here AGV system specialists, Aerocom, take a look at what it takes to integrate AGVs successfully into hospitals by looking at the planning, the importance of staff buy-in, and the benefits and constraints of this essential technology.