Indoor farming specialist AppHarvest acquires agricultural robotics firm

Snaps up efficient tomato pickers in a $60 million deal

Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch the warehouse robot

The claw chooses who will go and who will stay

Intel opens chip foundries to third parties, pledges to invest $20bn in manufacturing

Reversing years of company orthodoxy in an instant

Logistics giant XPO and robotics vendor Balyo partner on autonomous reach forklifts

Testing Linde trucks at a distribution center in France

Amazon tells drivers to sign biometric consent form, or lose their job

How would you like to be watched at work?

Applied Materials uses AI to improve chip manufacturing, claims it saved customers $400m

ExtractAI hunts out defects, making semiconductor fabs a little less expensive to run

How Locus Robotics plans to take over the warehouse

CEO Rick Faulk talks the benefits of Robotics as a Service model

ABB adds two models to its ‘cobot’ line-up

GoFa and SWIFTI hope to take robotics into new environments

Robotic harvest companion ‘Carry’ wants to help farmers boost efficiency

Future Acres claims the machine pays for itself in just 80 days

AiFi and Wundermart team up for checkout-less stores throughout Europe

To start, 20 Wundermart locations will be fully automated using the OASIS platform

Bearing.ai comes out of stealth to optimize the shipping industry

Lands large customers at sea

AI Business Podcast 18: The king is dead, long live the king