The industrial AI record
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Daily Signals and the two runners-up from each edition, preserved with their analysis and sources. Explore the record from August 30, 2026 onward.
16 results · 5 Daily Signals · 11 runners-up
Clear filtersKajima scales autonomous robots across ten construction sites.
Kajima and FieldAI have deployed autonomous mobile robots across more than ten Japanese construction sites, completing over 2,000 missions for patrols, photography and 3D scanning.
Trimble lowers 3D machine-control costs for excavators.
Trimble introduced a lower-cost Earthworks configuration using two DA2 GNSS receivers and subscription access to bring 3D grade guidance to small and midsize excavators.
Maximo passes 300,000 completed solar-construction tasks.
Maximo Robotics says its systems have completed more than 300,000 paid construction tasks across U.S. utility-scale solar sites, with six engineering and construction contractors now participating.
Foley Tile commits $3.55 million to robotic installation.
Human Friendly Robotics signed a three-year, $3.55 million contract to deploy its Tyler flooring robot with Tucson contractor Foley Tile.
NVIDIA packages AI factories for 14-day site deployment.
NVIDIA introduced a modular Vera Rubin AI-factory reference design that shifts system integration and validation into partner factories and targets deployment at a prepared site in as little as 14 days.
Deere connects new landscaping fleet through JDLink.
John Deere introduced five landscaping and compact-equipment lines with JDLink connectivity as standard, giving contractors a common Operations Center view across turf, snow and material-handling work.
Solar robots move from field trials to a 100-unit fleet.
ARENA will provide up to A$17.8 million for a Melbourne manufacturing facility expected to support the production and deployment of around 100 LUMI autonomous solar-panel installation robots by 2029.
D.R. Horton contracts robotic production for 1,250 homes.
D.R. Horton signed a multi-year agreement to use Promise Robotics' Factory-as-a-Service platform to support production of more than 1,250 homes, creating the company's first major U.S. homebuilder program.
Flex factory-builds power and cooling for AI data centers.
Flex introduced factory-built Axiom AI Modules that integrate power, liquid cooling and high-density compute, extending an active prefabrication business supported by more than three million square feet of U.S. manufacturing capacity.
Alibaba’s AI expansion becomes a 20-gigawatt infrastructure bet.
Alibaba Cloud will open its first regions in Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands and expand five existing markets as it targets more than 20 gigawatts of global data-center capacity by 2032.
Victoria makes new data centers bring their own infrastructure.
Victoria’s Sustainable Data Centre Action Plan requires new campuses to secure renewable generation and storage, pay for network connections and upgrades, and use recycled or other non-drinking water for cooling.
Amazon’s Ohio data center gets inert-anode aluminum cables.
Prysmian will supply electrical cables made with Rio Tinto aluminum produced using ELYSIS inert-anode technology for installation at an Amazon data center near Columbus, Ohio. Prysmian calls it the first known use of inert-anode-smelted aluminum in a data center.
Anthropic reserved 2.16 gigawatts behind an air-cooled campus.
Anthropic signed a long-term agreement for Zerra DC’s proposed Western Downs Digital Park in Queensland, its first Australian data-center deal. The 2.16-gigawatt campus is planned for AI inference, with a closed-loop air-cooled design, battery-backed grid connection and first operations targeted for 2027.
Factory AI cut issue resolution time 85%.
Brazilian flat-glass producer Vivix Vidros Planos says an AI-powered Virtual Engineer built with Siemens has reduced production-issue resolution time by 85% and recovered 6,000 hours of manual work in one year. The assistant uses plant, product and process context rather than a standalone general-purpose model.
Epiroc put every breaker size inside one automated factory.
Epiroc opened a highly automated and scalable factory in Kalmar, Sweden, producing its complete hydraulic-breaker range. The site consolidates equipment for construction, demolition, quarrying, mining and infrastructure customers.
Caterpillar and FieldAI announce plans for industrial robotics collaboration.
Caterpillar says the collaboration will combine its engineering expertise and operational data with FieldAI's robot-agnostic AI models. The companies identify autonomous inspections, digital twins, situational awareness, and operational optimization as early applications. They have not announced a Caterpillar customer deployment, supported machine models, results, or a rollout schedule.