Renault sets 2-year car development quality line - Facing an aggressive push by Chinese automakers to launch new models at short intervals and rapidly seize market share, major automakers in Europe, the US, Japan, and South Korea are confronting a new trade-off between R&D speed and quality control. Renault Group CEO Francois Provost said the French automaker...
Autonomous Pallet Handling Boosts Productivity in Manufacturing and Warehousing - KUKA is introducing the new KMF 1500P-CB as the first model in its new autonomous forklift family, a high-performance solution for flexible, autonomous material transport. The autonomous forklift transports both open and closed pallets and containers weighing up to 1,500 kilograms, ensuring a safe and...
Why Chinese automakers' aggressive push only further tightens CATL's grip - Supply diversification has long been a recurring — and difficult — issue confronting the high-tech manufacturing ecosystem. But efforts to diversify component and materials sourcing have proved particularly challenging for automakers, which remain tied to a relatively concentrated upstream...
The future of robot-human collaboration - Humans are difficult to simulate. We are quick, complex thinkers, and our exact actions aren't predictable. So how can we sufficiently train robots to collaborate with us?
