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Will autotech ventures race east in 2024?

Robotics Business Review

Autotech promises unfulfilled In 2016, John Zimmer the co-founder and president of Lyft, wrote a 16-page whitepaper predicting that the majority of rides on his network would be autonomous by 2021. We’ve also recently moved into the factory manufacturing distribution space.”

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Doing the right things: New year’s resolutions for Aussie manufacturers

AU Manufacturing

Challenges that plagued the manufacturing industry in 2022 are not showing any signs of slowing down, leaving business leaders with the monumental task of dealing with these issues—or at least their remnants— all while pushing innovation, meeting customer demand, and driving operational growth. .

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How digital transformation powers the machine economy

Control Engineering

Germany), Industrie du futur (France), Made in China 2025 (China), or Smart Manufacturing (US), to name a few. On the one hand, the machine economy addresses the traditional manufacturing and business processes in place in most enterprises and industries. of physical assets when the freight carrier network is moving them.