Manufacturing Dive

Kathie Mahoney spoke with Manufacturing Dive at a recent event about how the sector has changed since MassMEP was founded 30 years ago and the group’s current state legislative priorities.

Startup executives at Fauna, Ultra and Standard Bots discussed some of the challenges they’ve experienced deploying their industrial robots during a panel at New York Tech Week.

In other news, robotics firms preview their products ahead of the Automate trade show next week in Chicago.

Experts from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Iterate.ai, Altimetrik and Amtech Software weigh in on the state of agentic AI adoption in manufacturing.

As companies watch to see if the Federal Reserve may change its posture on interest rates later in the year, and ripple effects from the Middle East continue, they’re getting more comfortable navigating the complexity.

Mergers and acquisitions surged by 28%, driven by artificial intelligence, grid modernization and defense and infrastructure resilience spending, the consulting group found.

The EPA accused the chemical giant of releasing forever chemicals into rivers near the company's facilities in North Carolina, New Jersey and West Virginia.

The program will focus on accelerating the use of additive manufacturing for aerospace components and establishing a domestic critical minerals supply chain. NIST has committed to spending about $20 million per pilot project.

Bolstered by automotive and electronics demand, global deployments remain concentrated in China, Japan and South Korea. The U.S. is seeing growing robotics demand from food production and supply chain services.

Aerospace and defense companies are in the danger zone when it comes to using the technology to scale manufacturing, according to an EY and Aerospace Industries Association survey.