Teradyne Robotics Unveils Wide Range of Production-Ready Physical AI Applications at Automate 2026
Get used to it—robots are now physical AI. I didn’t even like that part of marketing when I practiced it. Anyway, new applications from Teradyne. Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), demonstrated how physical...
Hirebotics Launches Industry’s First No-Code, Explosion-Proof Cobot Solution for Painting
I have been a bit under the weather with some good-old Midwest summer allergies. Add that to an overdose of World Cup soccer, and I have been out. Time to catch up. A decade ago, I would have declared robot end-of-arm-tooling a mature, unexciting technology. That plus...
Festo Cuts EOAT Air Use and Improves Grip Control with VTUX Eco Functions
Between an overdose of World Cup soccer and being a bit under the weather, I’m two weeks behind catching up on my two days at Chicago’s McCormick Place with many friends at this year’s Automate Trade Show and Conference. Festo always surprises with their technology. I...
Automate Coverage Paused
I have been captured by the drama of the FIFA World Cup. Having the World Cup in my time zone, having been a soccer referee for more than 30 years, and unable to focus on automation, I've found myself sucked into Soccer/Football. The games have been great. The players...
MESA International Closes Doors
I received two not wholly unexpected emails today from an organization with whom I’ve been affiliated and one I devoted much work in the past—MESA International Also known as the Manufacturing Execution Systems Association and the Manufacturing Enterprise Resources...
Tech-Clarity Open Survey on The Business Value and Evolution of MES and AI
Before I could compile all my news from last week, a subsequent news item superseded this one. Long-time partners The Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association International (MESA) and Tech-Clarity, Inc. are once again teaming up for an important survey on...
Om Malik
I would guess that few readers know Om Malik. I began reading and appreciating his writing about 30 years ago. I didn’t realize then that he was only a kid. He wrote for Red Herring and Business 2.0. An early blogger, he turned his blog, GigaOm, into a business. He...
Automate 2026
I’ve lost a day’s productivity today driving into Chicago and back home. The backlog of company news continues to stack. I’ll tackle it tomorrow. First some impressions. I can’t believe how large the show was this year. Someone told me it was a result of consolidating...
Podcast 277—An Integrator’s View of Applying AI
Nothing in industrial technology news annoys me more than the hype around artificial intelligence—AI. I recorded this podcast on the eve of the Automate trade show and conference in June 2026. Looking to for realistic use of Industrial AI, I’m bringing in an interview...
Rockwell Automation Introduces FactoryTalk ResilientEdge to Enable Autonomous, Scalable Manufacturing Operations
Rockwell Automation ’s software group has undergone substantial change over the past few years. It seems to have settled into a groove lately. I’d imagine that its story at this year’s Automation Fair in November in Boston should be interesting. The TL;DR of today’s...
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