🤖 A human welder versus a six-axis welding robot: who gets the job done faster and more precisely? In a head-to-head test, the robot finished welding a metal bracket in just 3 minutes and 5 seconds, compared with 8 minutes and 12 seconds for the human welder. It also delivered a weld with just a quarter of the height variation. And when switching to a different model, the robot was ready to work in under a minute. Made in Guangdong, the robot is part of a fast-growing industry. In the first half of 2026, the province's industrial robot output rose 34.2% year on year, while exports reached 1.48 billion yuan (US$221 million). With Shenzhen set to host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November, 2026, what other kinds of robots would you like to see made in Guangdong? Tell us in the comments! Read more: #MadeInGuangdong# #Robotics# #IndustrialRobots# #Shenzhen# #APEC# #BusinessInChina# #ChinaTech# #SmartManufacturing#

Robotics at the largest industrial manufacturer in the US today!! Today, I convened leaders at Standard Bots, the largest manufacturer of industrial robots in the United States, to discuss how we can bring Long Island’s world-class talent, leading universities, skilled workforce, and entrepreneurial spirit together and make LI a destination for the robotics industry of the future. Let’s build it here!

Happy Pigs and Industrial Robots. In China, do pigs get high on carbon dioxide, enjoying a brief buzz of happiness before slaughter? Then, poof, they are sent to a robotic execution chamber for a clean and efficient process. In modern large-scale slaughterhouses, high concentrations of carbon dioxide are indeed used to stun pigs. Once lowered into a chamber filled with CO₂, the pigs lose consciousness within seconds due to severe hypercapnia and oxygen deprivation, allowing the slaughter process to proceed more efficiently.

Christoph Schell runs KUKA, the company that built one of the first industrial robots, Famulus, in 1973 and now has close to 600,000 robots working in factories around the world. Now KUKA is betting on physical AI. The idea is to combine the deterministic automation KUKA is known for with robots that understand a situation and act on intent, so that even older machines can learn new tricks. I sat down with Christoph to talk about where the training data for physical AI really comes from, why KUKA is growing faster than the market in China, robotics as a service, and why he sees humanoids as one form factor among many mobile robots rather than a category of their own. Christoph told me why this shift feels different from anything he’s seen before: “We’re not disrupting the old industry. We are evolving it.” This is a conversation about physical AI on real factory floors, the business models that come with it, and why the industry’s deployment timelines may be too ambitious. 00:00 Intro and KUKA’s first robot 00:40 What physical AI changes for existing robots 01:45 KUKA’s installed base and factory data 02:40 Automation 2.0: the bin-picking example 03:35 Selling intent-based automation to factories 04:45 Where physical-AI training data comes from 06:15 What data gets you to the 99,99999% reliability 07:10 Robotics as a service 08:25 KUKA’s growth in China 09:40 What does scaling mean for KUKA? 10:45 Why KUKA built a US AI team? 11:35 Is the robotics timeline too ambitious? 12:53 Humanoids versus other mobile robots 14:35 What industrial leaders will need in 2036 ~~  ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Next week, catch us — America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots — at @IMTSchicago, the largest tradeshow of the Western hemisphere. Booth 236540, North Hall Sept 14 - 19 McCormick Place, Chicago Meet our team. See live demos. Show a robot how it's done.

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Have you ever seen a vertical warehouse built for robots? 112 humanoid robots in 65 m²! EP.2 of our factory tour series — Next up: another corner of the factory you haven't seen yet. 👀 #UBTECH# #HumanoidRobot# #IndustrialRobot# #SmartManufacturing# #AI#