For years, Suzanne Berger has been a leading advocate for US industry. Now she’s co-directing MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing, a platform to help the country make more goods.

On industrial sites and large farms, critical work often happens in fields, hillsides and overgrown areas that are difficult or dangerous for people to access. CMU researchers are developing off-road ...

Germany’s robotics industry is heading for another year of decline, as rising global competition and structural challenges test its strength.

South Korea’s manufacturing industry is entering the era of “Manufacturing AX (AI Transformation),” centered around artificial intelligence (AI). Beyond simple automation, AI is evolving to ...

Humanoid robots are often marketed as the next leap in automation—machines that can walk, talk, grasp objects, and think independently.

Since late 2024, humanoid robots and lithium-ion batteries (especially solid-state batteries) have repeatedly appeared together in industry headlines.

Flo Mobility is building electric robots that navigate autonomously to make construction sites safer, greener, and more ...

These gains are not limited to experimental systems. At Midea, one of the world’s largest home appliance manufacturers, an ...

Fictiv's supply chain report reveals an industry operating in persistent volatility and fundamentally redefining how products are designed, sourced and built.

Automation starts with a simple promise: a system gets an instruction, and the physical world reacts. Conveyor lines move ...

A new MIT-designed program in Pittsfield helps experienced manufacturing workers step into higher skill roles that blend hands-on knowledge and systems thinking, with a clear path to Berkshire Communi ...