The industrial AI record
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Clear filtersBorouge scales real-time AI across petrochemical plants.
Borouge is operating AI-enabled real-time optimization across three ethane crackers and 20 furnaces, processing more than 2,500 live parameters per minute before a planned global rollout.
Kodiak expands operating fleet to 37 autonomous trucks.
Kodiak now reports 37 customer-owned autonomous trucks, more than 58,000 paid driverless hours and nearly 30,000 loads, adding operating evidence to its previously announced fleet commitments.
Yokogawa will automate LNG Canada’s capacity doubling.
Yokogawa will extend LNG Canada's existing automation platform across two new processing trains, storage and utility systems as the Kitimat facility doubles annual capacity from 14 to 28 million tons.
Kawasaki hardens industrial robot controllers against cyberattacks.
Kawasaki has launched an industrial robot controller with authenticated access, packet filtering, encryption, security logs and secure updates, using development processes certified to IEC 62443-4-1.
Twelve mobile robots double Premier Yarns shipments.
Premier Yarns says a 12-robot picking system doubled daily shipments to about 1,000 and reduced order shipping time by as much as 80%.
Cutter & Buck opens 32-robot Texas fulfillment center.
Cutter & Buck has opened a Grand Prairie distribution center built around 32 AutoStore robots, 50,502 bins and software linking automated picking to downstream fulfillment.
KUKA runs AI orchestration in live automotive production.
KUKA's Automation Management Platform is live at its Toledo vehicle-body plant, initially coordinating autonomous mobile robots inside a facility that produces more than 300 bodies per day.
Belden links OT threat detection to automatic enforcement.
Belden and Radiflow have connected operational-technology asset discovery and risk scoring to network access control, enabling access rights to change automatically as an industrial asset's posture changes.
Yaskawa automates GR Kart welding through final correction.
Yaskawa and GAZOO Racing have put an AI-enabled robot into GR Kart production to recognize pipe-frame conditions, weld, inspect quality and make corrections autonomously.
Braskem maps 3,000 OT assets across 39 plants.
Braskem has deployed Rockwell Automation's SecureOT platform across more than 39 industrial facilities, mapping 3,000 operational-technology assets during the first eight months.
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.
U.S. opens robotics-import negotiations without immediate tariffs.
The White House directed negotiations over robotics and industrial-machinery imports after a Section 232 review, while stopping short of imposing immediate tariffs.
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.
Intel and SAP connect warehouse robots to enterprise workflows.
Intel and SAP demonstrated a warehouse workflow that converts SAP Extended Warehouse Management tasks into autonomous robot missions and sends execution results back into the enterprise system.
GM monitors hundreds of thousands of factory devices with AI.
GM is using predictive models, sensor analytics and real-time weld inspection across production plants to catch equipment and quality problems before they stop lines.
Foundry opens 130,000-square-foot autonomous assembly factory.
Foundry Robotics expanded into a 130,000-square-foot Emeryville facility built around modular AI-powered robotic cells for complex industrial and commercial hardware assembly.
Fortescue moves physics AI from research into mining operations.
Fortescue signed a multi-year agreement to integrate PhysicsX models and simulation tools into mining, metals and engineering workflows after more than two years of joint research.
Proman embeds predictive alerts into methanol maintenance workflows.
Proman is applying industrial AI to equipment degradation, abnormal behavior and sensor anomalies while incorporating predictive alerts into maintenance decisions at a major methanol operation.
ROKAE ships its 10,000th force-controlled arm.
ROKAE says it delivered its 10,000th humanoid force-controlled arm while five Helios wheeled humanoids work on handling, assembly and inspection at Schaeffler's Taicang factory.
SharkNinja connects AI to live supply-chain exceptions.
SharkNinja is using AI in Oracle Fusion to identify integration errors, resolve order exceptions faster and coordinate finance with its global product supply chain.
Polar deploys factory-built infrastructure for 41 megawatts.
The first 41-megawatt phase of Polar Data Centers' Herøya campus will use factory-built Vertiv power, thermal and overhead infrastructure, with the Norwegian site designed to scale to 100 megawatts.
Mitsubishi links a humanoid to CNC machining.
Mitsubishi Electric developed a prototype machining system that coordinates a humanoid robot with a computer numerical control machine tool through AI task planning and natural-language instructions.
Sines twin links AI workloads to power and cooling.
An end-to-end digital-twin pilot at Start Campus' SIN01 facility connects Nscale's AI workloads with physical power, cooling, electrical and operating models.
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.
Carrier puts chiller capacity on a 2027 clock.
Carrier plans a more-than-one-million-square-foot Fort Worth manufacturing and engineering center to expand U.S. production of air- and water-cooled commercial chillers.
AGCO assigns Digit to parts handling at Hesston.
AGCO will pilot Agility Robotics' Digit at its Hesston, Kansas, manufacturing facility in 2027, starting with repetitive parts and tote-handling work.
Schneider brings industrial AI agents to the plant edge.
Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and HPE are combining plant software, private AI infrastructure and accelerated compute to run industrial agents close to process operations.
Agility standardizes Digit 5 compute on NVIDIA Thor.
Agility Robotics chose NVIDIA IGX Thor as Digit 5's standard onboard computer and is building NVIDIA Halos components into the humanoid's safety architecture before commercial early access.
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.
Agility builds support hub for growing humanoid fleets.
Agility Robotics plans a 50,000-square-foot Pittsburgh center for software, deployment, monitoring, service and repair as commercial Digit humanoid deployments expand across industrial customers.