As governments and private companies accelerate plans for commercial space stations, orbital manufacturing and eventually lunar infrastructure, one question is becoming increasingly important: who – or what – will do the work in space?  Brooklyn-based startup Icarus Robotics believes much of that work will be carried out by intelligent robotic workers. Founded in 2024, the […]

Digitizing the shop floor has moved from a nice-to-have to a genuine competitive need for small and mid-sized manufacturers. Picking the right software, though, is a real fork in the road that can shape a company’s operational future. The question underneath it all is simple: are you solving today’s execution headaches, or building a foundation […]

Matthäi Schlüsselfertigbau, a subsidiary of the German construction giant Matthäi, has established its own construction 3D printing division. The decision followed the successful completion of the company’s new two-story headquarters of 364 m² (3,920 SF) in Selsingen, Lower Saxony, printed with a COBOD BOD2 construction 3D printer and occupied in July 2026. Matthäi Schlüsselfertigbau has […]

PIA Automation is developing a highly automated assembly line for E-Drive units at the BMW Group plant in Steyr, Austria. Featuring 78 processing stations, 27 robotic cells and 46 industrial robots across more than 5,600 square meters on two levels, the project ranks among the largest in PIA Automation’s history. The system first assembles transmissions […]

Indian startup Sarla Aviation is using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to accelerate the development of its next-generation electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban air mobility. Based in Bengaluru, India, Sarla Aviation aims to transform urban transportation by making electric air taxis safe, sustainable and accessible. With plans to launch […]

For direct-to-consumer brands shipping across the US and Canada, the doorstep is where margins are won or lost. ABI Research attributes approximately half of all shipping costs to the final mile, which makes route density, warehouse throughput and delivery sequencing decisive for per-order profitability. That pressure has pushed automation to the center of outsourced logistics. […]

Connected products fail at the application layer now, where firmware telemetry, cloud pipelines, and the user-facing app are often built with different assumptions about the data. This gap has grown as inference moves to the device, fleets mix cellular, LPWAN, and satellite networks, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires secure remote updates from 11 […]

College is often the first time students have to manage their finances on their own. By this time in their lives, students have tuition, room, and board, groceries, transportation, texts, and more to pay for. They may work part-time jobs during the semester and full-time in the summer. Some students receive financial aid in two […]

Every founder knows the feeling. The company that ran beautifully at thirty people starts to creak at a hundred, and by three hundred it feels like the wheels are coming off. Nowhere is that strain more visible than in people operations. The informal, everyone-knows-everyone approach to skills, roles and development that worked in the early […]

For decades, automation on the plant floor meant machines doing the same thing very fast, very reliably and very literally. A robotic arm welded exactly where it was told, a conveyor moved at a fixed speed, and a programmable controller executed rules written by an engineer months earlier. That model built the modern industrial economy. […]