By Tristan Harrison, MD, BearJam Every business experimenting with AI-powered automation eventually asks the same question: how far do we take this? Get it wrong in one direction and you move slowly, while competitors don’t. Get it wrong in the other and you scale problems as fast as you scale output. At BearJam, an AI-powered […]

By James Hilditch, co-founder and executive creative director, BearJam AI automation has a messaging problem, but it’s not about capability. It’s about trust. Most businesses selling AI-powered services talk about speed, scale and output. Far fewer talk about the human oversight behind those results, the limitations that still exist, or what any of it means […]

Manufacturing payroll involves serious challenges. Between piece-rate workers on the floor, salaried supervisors, seasonal contractors, and rotating shift schedules, the best manufacturing payroll software has to handle the demands that generic platforms weren’t built around. Keeping up with FLSA rules, state tax codes, and union agreements across multiple facilities adds another layer entirely. After reviewing […]

In flexible food packaging, controlling material permeability is essential for preserving freshness and reducing global food waste. While Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) regulates gas exchange between the product and its environment, its success relies entirely on the microscopic precision of film perforations. Spark Machinery has elevated this standard by integrating state-of-the-art machine vision with laser […]

Manufacturers are under growing pressure to produce more parts with shorter lead times, consistent quality, and fewer interruptions. For many CNC shops, this naturally leads to one question: when should production move from manual loading toward automation? The answer is rarely as simple as replacing an operator with a robot. The productivity of CNC machining […]

Glass breaks. That single fact has made automotive glass manufacturing one of the most stubbornly difficult lines to automate, and one of the most expensive to run manually. A 1.5-meter laminated windshield blank weighs around 20 kilograms, flexes unpredictably under load, and shatters the moment positioning goes wrong. For decades, factory managers accepted high breakage […]

GUSS Automation, a wholly owned John Deere subsidiary and a pioneer in autonomous high-value crop operations, plans to incorporate Ouster’s Rev8 OS0 native color digital lidar sensors, powered by the breakthrough L4 Ouster Silicon, into the next generation of its Autonomous Orchard Machine Fleet. The integration is expected to further expand machine capabilities while underscoring […]

For retailers in tourist-heavy destinations, international shoppers are a goldmine, but they can be a logistical headache at the register. Language barriers, passport verification, and tax-free eligibility can turn a simple purchase into a slow, error-prone process that frustrates travelers and ties up your staff. Your store can ease the process by deploying multilingual, card-accepting […]

Motion, the company behind what it says is Europe’s first Humanoids-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform, has raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Extantia Capital, with participation from Norrsken Evolve. The funding will take Motion’s five live pilots with Belgian industrial, warehouse and logistics players into full production, expand the team and grow its robot fleet, […]

Water Quality Monitoring equipment choices that cut maintenance hours offer a reliable way to prevent costly regulatory excursions for large site maintenance teams, operators, and facilities managers. This guide reviews 5 equipment categories and products from top brands, comparing what each tool measures, the manual tasks it eliminates, and how it reduces maintenance hours. We […]

The gap between a signed capital purchase order and first saleable output is almost always longer than project timeline estimates. Most of that gap does not originate in the robotics or automation, because those systems typically perform as specified once running. Delays trace to logistics, power infrastructure, regulatory paperwork, and documentation gaps surfacing at the […]

Burns & McDonnell and Gritt have entered into a strategic partnership focused on evaluating and deploying AI-powered robotics technology on utility-scale solar projects. The technology will help improve safety, enhance project predictability and support construction teams as demand for new energy infrastructure continues to grow. Gritt combines AI and robotics to automate labor-intensive tasks on […]

A major transformation is taking place in the logistics domain owing to automation through data science and algorithmic approaches. Until recently, obtaining quotes for LTL shipment meant a lengthy process involving email exchanges, telephone discussions, and spreadsheet analyses that would take hours before any agreement on pricing. Today, however, thanks to artificial intelligence, quote generation […]

It’s not just about the installation of more solar panels for the next generation of renewable energy. It has to do with the utilization of every single square meter of PV surface in an even better way, and with the use of a combination of new PV technologies and smarter installation methods, energy storage solutions, […]

Why most agents are just flowcharts in disguise, and what to build instead.

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Between July 2024 and February 2025, Adobe recorded a 1,200% increase in traffic to U.S. retail websites from generative AI sources. That figure alone would be notable in any industry. For anyone tracking the broader shift toward automation and machine-led decision-making, it’s a signal of something larger than a marketing trend, it’s the early shape […]

J&T Global Express has expanded automated sortation across its express network to 435 sets of automated sorting machines, adding 22 sets in the first half of 2026, while deployment of unmanned delivery vehicles rose 87 percent to more than 1,900 units. J&T Global Express disclosed the figures in its interim results for the six months […]

By Amber Atherton, early stage investor, partner at Patron For decades, science fiction has imagined the future of robotics as a single humanoid capable of doing everything around the home. Silicon Valley has largely adopted the same vision. Every few months brings another humanoid demo, followed by predictions that one general-purpose machine will absorb countless […]

Raise Robotics has unveiled plans to develop shipbuilding robots specialized in coating applications. The systems are designed to coat large surfaces autonomously without crawling on them, and to operate with the certifications required for explosive atmospheres, including engineering toward ATEX Zone 2 requirements used in paint halls and other hazardous coating environments.  The ‘bottleneck is […]

Logic Robotics, a developer of autonomous, data-driven logistics solutions, has unveiled what is described “a breakthrough” in multimodal logistics automation with the introduction of its intelligent transloading solution, powered by the Logic Digital Twin Operating System. Designed for rail-to-road operations, the system integrates the Logic Pallet’s autonomous mobility with real-time digital twin visualization to eliminate […]