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Boston Dynamics Opens Robotics Center at Hyundai Georgia EV Plant
Boston Dynamics officially opened its Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America outside Savannah, Georgia on Monday, transitioning from pilot operations that began in June to full-scale operations. The center serves as a test bed and training center for integrating Atlas humanoids across Hyundai's automotive factories, with Boston Dynamics training the robots to take over repetitive parts sequencing and heavy-lifting tasks over the next few years and component assembly by 2030. Boston Dynamics, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hyundai in July, said it plans to begin exploring use cases for Atlas in other industry sectors next year, and will move into a new building at the Georgia site that will make its test bed and training center 10 times its current size. The center is a key part of Hyundai's larger strategy unveiled in January to restructure its manufacturing environments for humans to work safely alongside robots; Hyundai initially plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas units across its global plants, including Kia factories, over the next few years, and will establish a U.S. facility capable of producing 30,000 robots per year, with a location not disclosed. Separately, the Toyota Group aims to deploy close to 400,000 robots to update its aging factories and supplier network, starting in 2028 with 150,000 units across Toyota Motor Corp. and the Toyota Group plus 250,000 units at various suppliers, a total that includes replacement of existing robots and new units such as humanoids; Toyota's factory automation efforts could cost up to $6.4 billion per year, according to Reuters.
QAD | Redzone to Integrate NVIDIA AI for Manufacturing Intelligence
QAD | Redzone announced at Champions of Manufacturing in Chicago that it plans to integrate NVIDIA technologies to accelerate Manufacturing Intelligence. The company intends to combine its manufacturing context and footprint across thousands of manufacturing plants with NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to build a federated intelligence layer connecting the factory floor with ERP, supply chain, quality and workforce systems. Initial capabilities will leverage NVIDIA's NVDinoV2 vision foundation model for quality inspection, with a downstream reasoning layer to explain what is detected and what it means for the production order, quality record and workflow it touches. QAD | Redzone also intends to use NVIDIA multimodal AI to process documents such as certificates of analysis, supplier documents, quality records, invoices, delivery notes, specifications and compliance documentation, and is evaluating NVIDIA's NeMo Switchyard, an intelligent routing layer that directs routine manufacturing AI decisions to optimized local models while routing complex reasoning to frontier AI. The company, backed by Thoma Bravo, intends to begin structured deployments with selected manufacturing customers focused initially on visual intelligence, intelligent document processing, conversational Manufacturing Intelligence and accelerated production optimization, with the objective of demonstrating measurable value in 90 days. "Manufacturers are surrounded by intelligence, but today most of it is trapped," said Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of QAD | Redzone, adding that the ambition is to federate that intelligence and put it to work.
Epson Launches AX6 Collaborative Robot, Completing Robotic Safety Portfolio
Epson Robots has introduced the AX6 collaborative robot, its first collaborative 6-axis robot, expanding the AX Series lineup and completing the company's portfolio of robotic safety tools. The AX6 uses power- and force-limiting features that, with a proper risk assessment, can allow operation without traditional safety barriers, and it joins Epson's existing industrial robots and industrial collaborative tools to cover speed-focused, interaction-focused and balanced use cases. The robot features no-code software and an intuitive user interface, works with AX Portal collaborative robot software, and is built on a compact, lightweight carbon fiber structure with an IP54 and ISO 5 cleanroom rating. Additional features include a customizable Python development environment, industrial kinematics, end-of-arm multifunctional user buttons, an end-of-arm Ethernet port and pneumatic connections, support for 100 V to 240 V AC and 48 V DC power, a multicolor status LED ring and a 3D simulator. Rick Brookshire, director of Product Development at Robot Development, said the AX6 lets Epson address applications where space and user interaction are critical while offering customers a complete range of robotic safety solutions. The AX6 is now available through Epson Robots' channel of distributor partners.