Innovation In Industry

Automate 2026 sets records with 50,000 registrants as humanoid robots and industrial AI take center stage

Automate 2026 drew 50,000+ registrants and 1,230 exhibitors to Chicago, marking the biggest year yet for North America's leading robotics event.

Automation adoption is surging at trade shows. Most US factories still haven't started.

Record attendance at Automate 2026 and new AI-lab deals signal industry momentum, but 80% of US manufacturing facilities still run zero automation.

Robotics industry surges in mid-2026: AMRs, physical AI, and lab automation headline a busy fortnight

ABB, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, and a wave of startups push robotics deeper into warehouses, labs, farms, and data centers.

Samsung commits to all-AI factories by 2030, setting a hard deadline for industrial transformation

Samsung plans to convert all manufacturing to AI-driven factories by 2030, deploying digital twins and specialized AI agents across quality, production, and log

Robotics, machine vision, and AI software lead automation industry's mid-2026 agenda

Automation World's latest coverage highlights AI-driven robotics, a $8.3B machine vision forecast, and a Siemens-Jabil U.S. facility plan.

How to Power Innovation and Efficiency with Attention to the Little Things

On There’s More to IT, host Jason Claybrook and guests will explore some foundational questions about the technology that’s driving us all forward. Why do we build the stuff we build? What’s behind the scenes? Where are we falling short or putting revenue first? The days of post-trade show drinks and conversation are far from over….

How AI Kitchen Process Optimization is Transforming the QSR Industry 

The COVID-19 pandemic forever altered the QSR landscape. Innovations once believed to take years to develop arrived out of necessity. Intel’s Internet of Things Group, joined by partners like PreciTaste, led the way with AI solutions that not only got QSRs up and running during the early stages of the pandemic but continued to innovate…

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on Foundry Business, Global Chip Shortage

Intel Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger discussed the company’s ambitions to create a new foundry business, and saying he sees the global chip shortage lasting “a couple more years.” Gelsinger spoke with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang about why change is something that’s fundamental to Intel’s business. — Gelsinger: I’m committed to the best products in…

Artificial Intelligence Challenge: These are the finalists for the 2021 KUKA Innovation Award

Innovations centered on the megatrend of artificial intelligence (AI): the finalists for the 2021 KUKA Innovation Award have been selected. Five teams convinced the international jury with their robotics concepts on the topic of AI. A monetary prize of 20,000 euro awaits the winner. AI is becoming increasingly important for industry – and the combination…

Adapting to a Mobile-First Strategy

On this episode of The Suite Spot, Teknion Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer John Comacchio joined hosts Carlos Vargas, Howard Holton and Paul Lewis to talk about how his organization remained agile in the face of COVID-19 pressures and is moving forward during the period of reopening and into a new normal. Teknion is a company that partners…

Cable-Tec 2019: How the Industry is Preparing for Change

The broadband and telecommunications industry is changing rapidly and burgeoning with innovation. The roll out of technology like 5G and 10G connectivity will reshape how people conduct business and connect with people all over the world. What are businesses in the industry doing to prepare for changing consumer demands? Daniel Litwin, the Voice of B2B,…

How Technology is Improving the Broadband User Experience

Communications have fundamentally changed since the implementation of broadband services; today, customer expectations are that communication is instant and clear. “Internet is now the key to this business because everything flows through it. Whether it’s the phone or video or internet,” Chris Boring, vice president of sales and marketing at Promptlink Communications, said. This…

MarketScale IoT 01/23/19: Bringing IoT to the Highest Valued Port in America

Can IoT help bring innovation to an industry that has remained largely unchanged for centuries? Ed Anthes-Washburn and the New Bedford Port Authority is saying yes. Today’s episode of the MarketScale IoT Podcast looks at how IoT technology is changing the game in fishing and strengthening supply chains. Fishing for IoT Innovation Fishing is one…

MarketScale Industrial IoT 12/26/18: Connected Energy, Connected Restaurants, Connected Wins

Today’s two features put IoT to work in different industries. In each, we get to see how interconnected data is lowering price points, increasing data access, and overall creating big wins. We get a look at connected energy with Tom Raftery, Global VP, Futurist and Innovation Evangelist with SAP, and turn to Can Algül,…

Listen: IoT’s Ecosystem of Technology with Tom Raftery of SAP

Innovations in the Industrial IoT space are exciting and often industry changing, but they don’t act alone. The best, most ground-breaking changes occur when technology works together to create a co-working ecosystem. Tom Raftery, Global VP, Futurist and Innovation Evangelist at SAP, sat down on the podcast to tell us how blockchain and AI…

Manchester University launches new student IoT competition

Competition is in the air at Manchester University and it’s all about Industry 4.0! A brand-new IoT competition is in the midst and is also known as the Digital Innovation Challenge, which tasks its participants with developing new-found solutions for the future ahead in Industry 4.0.