New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), totaled $681.3 million in March 2026.
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German robotics AI company Sereact has secured a $110 million Series B funding round led by Headline. The funding marks a significant milestone for the Stuttgart-based company as it accelerates development of its next-generation robotic AI platform, Cortex 2.0, and expands into the United States with a new office in Boston.
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Renishaw has reported record revenue for the first nine months of its 2025/26 financial year, driven by strong global demand from semiconductor, electronics, aerospace and defence customers. The global precision engineering and metrology specialist also achieved its strongest-ever third-quarter trading performance while reaffirming recently upgraded full-year guidance.
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Zebra Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Zebra Technologies Corporation has announced a strategic investment in Apera AI, a provider of 4D Vision for industrial robots. This venture investment reinforces Zebra’s focus on digitizing and automating workflows to accelerate frontline operations for organizations in the manufacturing and logistics industries and beyond.
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BMW i Ventures has launched its third fund, putting $300 million behind a clear premise: that AI will fundamentally reshape how the automotive industry operates and creates value across its entire ecosystem.
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Optikos Corporation, a provider of engineering, manufacturing, and metrology expertise in optical systems, is joining forces with Artemis, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on scaling high-impact industrial tech. Through this acquisition, Artemis will provide the strategic support necessary to supercharge the engineering and manufacturing capabilities of Optikos.
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As additive manufacturing continues its transition from prototyping to full-scale production, the demands on quality control are evolving just as rapidly. This month’s developments across the metrology landscape make one thing clear: inspection is no longer a downstream checkpoint – it’s becoming an integrated, intelligent, and increasingly automated part of the manufacturing process.
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Onto Innovation has announced a strategic collaboration with X-ray technology leader Rigaku Holdings Corporation to advance next-generation process control solutions for semiconductor manufacturing.
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Following 27 years of fruitful collaboration that enabled PolyWorks to become the universal 3D metrology platform in German-speaking markets, InnovMetric has completed the acquisition of its German business partner Duwe-3d.
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New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), totaled $488.9 million in February 2026.
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