Toyota plans 400,000 robots across its factories and suppliers
Toyota and its suppliers expect to spend about ¥1 trillion a year from 2028 on production equipment, tied to a new Factory Control Platform.
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Robotics & automated inspection
Industrial and collaborative robots, humanoids and mobile robots, and the automated cells that load, measure and inspect parts without an operator.
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October 2026
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- CircuitHub's Massachusetts robot factory ships PCBAs in four days versus nine from ShenzhenCircuitHub
- ESAB's ROBBI cobot welder pairs no-code programming with a turnkey safety enclosureESAB
- Formic raises $50 million to move from task-specific robots to general-purpose roboticsFormic
- KUKA puts 2D and 3D vision inside the robot controller with iiQKA.AI VisionKUKA
- Audi tests Agile Robots humanoids for parts sequencing at IngolstadtAgile Robots
- AGCO to pilot Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid at Kansas plant in 2027AGCO
- Hesai's Kosmo scans 100 square meters in 15 minutes to build robot training environmentsHesai Group
- ABB lets OmniCore robots run from a customer's Windows tablet or PC via E-DeviceABB Robotics
- Standard Bots pitches plain-language programming for inspection and palletizing robotsStandard Bots
- Agility's Digit 5 humanoid robot is built to work near people without safety barriersAgility Robotics
- ABB adds AI Robot Trainer to OmniCore EyeMotion vision softwareABB Robotics
- ABB's IRB 1700 robots claim 20 percent shorter cycle timesABB Robotics
- Epson's first collaborative robot, the AX6, carries 6 kg and reaches 900 mmEpson Robots
- Inbolt raises $12.5M to put 3D vision on robots in 100+ factoriesInbolt
- Nikon robot vision system adds 3D tracking of conveyor workpieces without encodersNikon Corporation
September 2026
- e-con Systems to debut NetraVis 3D depth camera at VISION 2026e-con Systems
- Boston Dynamics opens an Atlas training center inside Hyundai's Georgia MetaplantBoston Dynamics
- Intrinsic open-sources core robot control, vision and motion softwareIntrinsic
- Cognex to acquire RealSense for about $500 million, adding 3D robotic perceptionCognex Corporation
- Aetina's AIE-KT78 edge AI system hits 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS for cobots and humanoidsAetina Corporation
- Caterpillar taps FieldAI's physical AI for autonomous factory inspectionsCaterpillar Inc.
- Lyte raises $165 million Series C for robot perception, hits $1.6 billion valuationLyte
- KITOV.ai unveils X-Prime for automated surface inspection of complex partsKITOV.ai
- Nidec debuts AI-powered RoboCam gear cutting tool inspection system at IMTS 2026Nidec Machine Tool America
- Photoneo's Bin Picking Studio 1.12 builds part models straight from 3D scans, no CAD requiredPhotoneo
- Hexagon launches METRICAL automation system for unattended CMM inspectionHexagon
- Universal Robots links four cobots into one cell using Anthropic's AI standardUniversal Robots
August 2026
- Blackbird Robotics and Lessmüller Lasertechnik merge to form iQLASEiQLASE GmbH
- UTPVision launches RoViCX robotic cell for low-volume part inspectionUTPVision
- UK robotics firm joins consortium to automate drilling on India's Tejas Mk1A wingsTrue Position Robotics
- IDS's Nion ToF camera enters series production with 1.2-megapixel depth sensorIDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
- Schaeffler trains Hexagon's AEON humanoid robots ahead of 1,000-unit factory rolloutHexagon Robotics
- Generalist AI's GEN-1.5 learns new robot tasks from seconds of demo dataGeneralist AI
- Conmed Labmet's robotic laser scanning cuts large-part CMM inspection times in halfConmed Labmet
- Teradyne Robotics exec: AI models now control robot motion in real timeUniversal Robots
July 2026
- BMW's new Woodruff plant inspects every weld seam in real time on Gen6 EV batteriesBMW Group
- X-RAYLAB's RoboCT uses industrial robots to CT-scan components up to 30 meters longX-RAYLAB GmbH & Co. KG
- BMW Group Plant Landshut takes lead on humanoid robotics software stackBMW Group
- Techman Robot's High-Speed AI Flying Trigger cuts inspection cycle time 40 to 50 percentTechman Robot
- BMW Group moves Figure 03 into logistics sequencing at SpartanburgBMW Group
- Kawasaki Robotics and Fives DyAG claim 10x faster weld inspection with PulseboardKawasaki Robotics
June 2026
- Robotiq IQ generates palletizing workcells using AI and historical deployment dataRobotiq
- Novarc NovAI Autonomy skips pre-scanning with AI-driven seam trackingNovarc
- ESAB closes Eddyfi acquisition, extending from fabrication into NDT inspectionESAB Corporation
- AUBO Robotics G Series cobots reach 40 kg payload with EtherCAT motion controlAUBO Robotics
- Optimax AURA K4D merges AI defect detection and interferometric gauging into a single robotic cellOptimax
- SpatialAnalyzer 2026.1 adds OPC UA client for closed-loop robotic inspectionHexagon
- ABB Flexley Tug T702 brings AI Visual SLAM to 2,000 kg compact AMRABB
- KITOV.ai adds CMM-Manager GD&T engine to Core+ robotic inspection platformKITOV.ai
May 2026
- Porsche Leipzig deploys four-robot cell to check 130 axle points in 80 secondsPorsche
- Humanoid taps Bosch to mass-produce its HMND 01 industrial robots for EuropeHumanoid
- ABB's PickMaster Lite cuts picking-line commissioning time by 25 percentABB Robotics
- FANUC and Google bring Gemini AI agents to industrial robot cellsFANUC CORPORATION
- ABB Robotics' OmniVance cell automates finishing for shops without robotics expertiseABB Robotics
- OTTO AMRs earn VDA 5050 certifications for mixed-fleet deploymentsOTTO by Rockwell Automation