Automation

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to near-infrared in-situ quality assurance technologies enabling real-time monitoring and defect detection during metal additive manufacturing; AI-driven multi-sensor monitoring systems integrating process data to improve additive manufacturing quality...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to simulation-trained contact skills enabling industrial robots to perform complex physical interactions and manipulation tasks; hybrid laser-DLP 3D printing systems combining additive technologies for high-speed photopolymer manufacturing; industrial ...

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...

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...

This study examines the technology landscape, commercialization progress, and future growth opportunities of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials, with a primary focus on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), and gallium oxide (Ga₂O₃) for power and RF electronics. It evaluates how these materials enable higher efficiency, greater powe...