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Industrial robot news: cobots, factory automation and the robot arms reshaping manufacturing, with sources linked.
ANYbotics rebranded its Data Navigator software into Shift, a platform that schedules and supervises fleets of its four-legged ANYmal robots as they inspect industrial plants around the clock.
Figure decommissioned its F.02 humanoid robots after 11 months building BMW X3s, sending them off with a Terminator 2-style melt into a foundry furnace, an idea Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested.
Innodata opened a motion-capture lab in New Jersey, built with Vicon, that captures sub-millimeter 3D movement data to train humanoid and industrial robots how to move more naturally.
Apple is reportedly targeting 6-8 million iPhone Duo units for 2026, far below typical flagship volumes, as assembly yields sit just above 60% ahead of an October launch.
Tesla has scaled Optimus production roughly tenfold since Q2, but the robot's hands still need hand assembly and its touch sensors aren't holding up, The Information reports.
