industrial robotics

China is building a more complete AI deployment machine than the United States: factories already dense with automation, university programs that can be redirected at national speed, domestic component suppliers backed by capital, and rules that define what consumer AI may do before the market...

Hexagon Robotics’ new partnership with Microsoft signals a pragmatic push to get industrial humanoid robots off the lab bench and onto factory floors, combining Hexagon’s sensor-rich AEON platform with Microsoft’s cloud scale and real-time intelligence services to tackle inspection...

Hexagon Robotics’ new partnership with Microsoft is a clear signal that humanoid robots are moving from research labs toward production-ready industrial deployments, and that major cloud providers are positioning themselves as the connective tissue between robotics hardware and enterprise-scale...