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Sam Francis

Nature Robots secures €4 million seed funding to scale software for autonomous farming

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Nature Robots, a technology company founded in Osnabrück in 2022 and a spin-off of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), has closed a seed financing round totaling €4 million.

Participants in the round include Climentum Capital, Bayern Kapital, and Planetary Impact Ventures. With the fresh capital, the company is scaling its modular autonomy software for agricultural machinery, expanding its team, and establishing an additional location in Munich.

Nature Robots develops software that enables agricultural machinery to operate autonomously in large fields, vegetable farming, viticulture and fruit growing, specialty crops, as well as in agri-photovoltaics and agroforestry systems. [Read more…] about Nature Robots secures €4 million seed funding to scale software for autonomous farming

Agibot reaches 10,000 humanoid units built as real-world demand for robots accelerates

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Agibot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, said it has rolled out its 10,000th humanoid robot, becoming one of the first companies in the industry to reach this milestone at scale. 

More than a production figure, the achievement marks a significant step forward for the robotics industry, signaling a transition from early-stage validation to scalable, real-world deployment.

“Reaching 10,000 units is not simply about producing more robots, it reflects a fundamental shift in our ability to scale,” said Peng Zhihui, CTO of Agibot. [Read more…] about Agibot reaches 10,000 humanoid units built as real-world demand for robots accelerates

Why Manufacturers Are Struggling to Find Obsolete PLC Parts in 2026

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Manufacturers in 2026 face a clear problem. Finding obsolete PLC parts is slow, expensive, and uncertain. What used to be a sourcing issue is now an operational risk. 

Even a minor PLC failure can stop production. Delays now impact output, timelines, and revenue. [Read more…] about Why Manufacturers Are Struggling to Find Obsolete PLC Parts in 2026

How to Choose the Right Project Management Tools for Your Team

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Choosing the right project management tools can either make or break teams. Choosing among this number of options needs to be done wisely.

Good tools assist in organizing tasks, maintaining clear communication, and tracking challenges and progress. Knowing what to look for helps teams make decisions that foster productivity and collaboration. [Read more…] about How to Choose the Right Project Management Tools for Your Team

Emerging trends in robotics and AI for high-risk industries: Construction, oil and gas, and mining

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By Gary Ng, CEO and co-founder of viAct

There is a major shift occurring at some of the most hazardous workplaces on the planet: oil refineries, large construction projects, and underground mines, as new and improving technologies are being used for the initial line of defence.

Technologies, like Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, and IoT wearables, especially smartwatches, have replaced the hard hat and safety supervisor as the last line of defence against workplace hazards by providing a first layer of protection against them.

Over the past few years, world has witnessed a rapid increase in both quantity and variety of robotic and automated systems being deployed to monitor, detect, and respond to workplace hazards in real-time, and there has probably never been a more opportune time for these technologies to evolve from being part of pilot programmes to permanent fixtures of the industrial workplace. [Read more…] about Emerging trends in robotics and AI for high-risk industries: Construction, oil and gas, and mining

What Robotics Teams Really Need From a 3D Printing Partner

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Robotics teams rarely struggle because a part cannot be printed at all. More often, they lose time because a part arrives with the wrong material, the wrong orientation, a missed drawing note, or small inconsistencies that only become obvious during assembly or testing.

That is why speed alone is not enough. For robotics teams, a useful 3D printing partner combines fast turnaround with reliability, technical judgment, quality control, and repeatability. The real value is not just getting one part made quickly. It is keeping development moving when designs change, deadlines tighten, and each new build reveals the next problem to solve. [Read more…] about What Robotics Teams Really Need From a 3D Printing Partner

How to Improve Customer Retention Using Marketing Automation

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There’s a quiet shift happening in eCommerce. For a long time, brands were obsessed with getting new customers – bigger ad budgets, wider reach, more traffic. But lately, the smarter ones are asking a different question: How do we keep the customers we already have?

Because the truth is, growth doesn’t really come from constant chasing. It comes from consistency – people coming back, buying again, and slowly building trust with your brand.

That’s where marketing automation starts to feel less like a “tool” and more like a necessity. [Read more…] about How to Improve Customer Retention Using Marketing Automation

How structured content powers AI workflows and automation in 2026

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The rapid rise of artificial intelligence tools has transformed how content is created, processed, and delivered. From automated writing assistants to multimodal generation systems, the capabilities of AI have expanded quickly over the past few years.

But as many organizations are discovering, AI itself is no longer the primary constraint. The bigger challenge lies in the content that feeds these systems.

In practice, the effectiveness of AI-driven workflows depends less on the sophistication of the models and more on how well content is organized, structured, and made accessible. Increasingly, structured content is emerging as the foundation that enables automation to function reliably at scale. [Read more…] about How structured content powers AI workflows and automation in 2026

Where Drivers Still Beat Autonomous Systems, and Why it Matters

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Autonomous systems are designed for repetition. They are good in the situations where patterns can be memorized, charted, and anticipated with a high level of certainty. However, real-world driving is filled with edge cases, which do not scale well to datasets.

Even a sophisticated system can be thrown off by a plastic bag floating along a highway or an unmarked detour in a construction area. The anomalies are intuitively processed by human drivers.

They do not need prior exposure to such scenarios since they reason by analogy rather than data. This generality ability with respect to known inputs is a structural benefit. [Read more…] about Where Drivers Still Beat Autonomous Systems, and Why it Matters

Heavy Equipment Manufacturers Are Using Robotics to Change Crane Trucks

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A number of individuals have spoken about robotics with respect to heavy equipment. However, they typically consider autonomous mining vehicles, warehouse management systems, and construction machines.

The majority of these individuals overlook an extremely obvious shift that is taking place in truck mounted cranes. Crane trucks are becoming smart due to the advent of new technology to assist the operator by making his job safer.  [Read more…] about Heavy Equipment Manufacturers Are Using Robotics to Change Crane Trucks