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The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) enabling pallet and trolley transportation across dynamic intralogistics environments; compact 6-axis robotic systems supporting modular and flexible laboratory automation; autonomous agricultural unmanned ground vehi...

The study evaluates photonic and optical computing technologies as critical enablers of next-generation AI infrastructure, addressing growing bandwidth, latency, power consumption, and scalability constraints associated with copper-based interconnects. The analysis covers photonic integrated circuits (PICs), optical I/O chiplets, co-packaged optics...

The escalating compute and power demands of edge AI are exposing the limits of conventional von Neumann architectures. Manufacturers deploying always-on sensing, real-time inference, and autonomous decision-making at the edge are constrained by the energy, latency, and memory-bandwidth ceilings of standard NPUs and MCUs. Traditionally, edge AI work...

Multimodal sensor fusion is an advanced perception technology that combines data from multiple sensors, including cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonic sensors, thermal cameras, and inertial measurement units (IMUs), to give robots and autonomous systems a more accurate, reliable, and comprehensive understanding of their environment. It overcomes the l...

This study provides an in-depth understanding of the machine tools industry. It discusses the key trends and challenges faced by machine tool manufacturers, in addition to providing forecasts until 2030. The study provides a region-wise breakdown with discussions on key industries. Machine tool manufacturing is being reshaped by a combination of di...

Manufacturers are confronting a skilled labor shortage. As they try to find a solution, augmented connected worker (ACW) platforms can become a key ally in training the new workforce and strengthening employee retention through comprehensive upskilling capabilities, skills management tools, and assistance throughout their shifts. ACW platforms have...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to cobot-enabled vacuum gripping technology supporting flexible pick-and-place automation across dynamic manufacturing environments; automated build-job depowdering systems improving metal additive manufacturing powder handling and post-processing effi...

This study focuses on heterogeneous computing architectures for automotive and robotics applications, examining how centralized and zonal compute architectures, heterogeneous SoCs integrating CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, and dedicated safety islands, as well as robotics edge-AI controllers and mixed-criticality computing platforms, are enabling t...

The energy transition is no longer driven solely by cleaner generation technologies; it is increasingly defined by the intelligence, resilience, and strategic control embedded within energy systems. As governments, utilities, infrastructure operators, and industrial stakeholders respond to rising electricity demand, supply chain volatility, and dec...