Omron has agreed to acquire US industrial computer manufacturer OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, in a $675 million transaction designed to strengthen its industrial computing capabilities and accelerate the development of physical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for manufacturing.
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Leica Microsystems, a Danaher company and a leading provider of microscopy and scientific solutions, and Cognex Corporation, a leader in industrial machine vision, has announced Aivaro AI Feature Detection, a new AI-powered software module that automatically identifies, classifies and measures defects and other features of interest during inspection.
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Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics, reinforcing its continued investment in driving an open ecosystem for advanced physical AI and robotics.
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Siemens and Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, are expanding the deployment of an AI-based quality inspection solution across P&G’s manufacturing operations worldwide.
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Trossen Robotics, a provider of research and data-collection platforms for Physical AI, and Stereolabs, and maker of the ZED series of AI stereo cameras, have announced a collaboration that integrates Stereolabs’ ZED X Mini and ZED X Nano cameras into Trossen’s new Physical AI hardware suite for robot learning.
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Opsio, a Swedish managed cloud services and artificial intelligence company, has announced the global launch of PrismIQ its automated visual inspection service for manufacturers.
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Anthropic has introduced a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification designed to allow AI agents to communicate with and control physical equipment including robotic arms, microscopes and other laboratory and manufacturing systems.
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Rockwell Automation has announced an API-enabled integration between Plex Quality Management System (QMS) and FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI. The integration expands AI-driven quality management and reflects Rockwell’s continued investment in artificial intelligence and elastic MES solutions.
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the role of metrology within manufacturing. What began as the application of AI to individual inspection tasks is evolving into something considerably more significant: measurement systems designed around artificial intelligence, data and increasingly autonomous decision-making.
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As industrial automation and 3D measurement shift rapidly toward real-time spatial awareness, a new player has joined the frontier of computer vision and spatial intelligence.
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