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Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid handle automotive struts

Robotics Business Review

Boston Dynamics released a video showing its Atlas humanoid picking and placing automotive struts. Atlas acquires the automotive struts, using its grippers from a vertical storage unit, and places them horizontally onto a flow cart. But on its YouTube channel today, Boston Dynamics said not so fast.

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Accenture, Mujin form robotics integration joint venture

Robotics Business Review

Accenture and Mujin have created a joint venture to help bring robotics and automation to the manufacturing and logistics industries. The new company will combine Mujin’s industrial robotics expertise with Accenture’s digital engineering and manufacturing service, Industry X. Manufacturing is the cornerstone of Japanese industry.

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Automotive Additive Manufacturing Applications

Additive Manufacturing

From initial use as a prototyping tool to additive manufacturing’s role as an enabler for electrification, mobility, and more, the automotive industry is accelerating additive manufacturing. John Rupp: Where are you seeing AM being used in automotive sector? Indirect manufacturing like jigs, fixtures, robots, etc.,

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BMW testing Figure 01 humanoid at South Carolina automotive plant

Robotics Business Review

based Figure AI signed an agreement with BMW Manufacturing to test its 01 humanoid at the car maker’s plant in Spartanburg, S.C. BMW Manufacturing employs 11,000 people at its 8 million-sq.-ft. BMW said its Spartanburg facility is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., Sunnyvale, Calif.-based

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Barton Cold-Form Holds UK Manufacturing Licenses for Taptite and MortorQ Super Products

MEM

With over eighty years of history, Barton Cold-Form is a stalwart of the UK fastening industry and one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of bespoke critical fastenings and special cold forging. Now an Optimas Company, Barton supplies over 25 million fasteners a month to manufacturers and tier 1 suppliers in 21 countries.

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ETAS and BlackBerry QNX form partnership to improve software in vehicles

Canadian Manufacturing

STUTTGART and WATERLOO — ETAS GmbH, a solutions provider for the development of automotive software and BlackBerry QNX, a business unit of BlackBerry Limited, have signed a contract to jointly sell and market software solutions accelerating the development of safety-critical functions for next generation software-defined vehicles (SDVs).

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Accelerating Vehicle Electrification to Shake up Competitive Landscape in ASEAN Automotive Market

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Market Landscape in 2023 For a variety of reasons ranging from supply chain disruptions to macroeconomic headwinds, passenger vehicle and pickup vehicle sales across the five main automotive markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam dipped from 3.2 million in 2022 to 3.1 million units in 2023.