How NXP Scales Physical AI from Drones to Humanoids
A delivery drone and a humanoid robot face the same core challenge: they need to reason, coordinate, and react at three distinct levels simultaneously. NXP Semiconductors’ Neural Access Architecture splits robotic intelligence into cerebral, cerebellum, and…
How Does AI Forecast Supply Chain Demand?
P&G evaluates 20 AI models every day to forecast six weeks of demand for Charmin and Bounty, Jaimie McIntyre Horstman, Director of Demand Forecasting at P&G, told a December 2025 IIoT World panel with Maria Araujo,…
How AI Improves the Work Robots Cannot Automate
Humans still performed 75 to 80% of tasks in even the most advanced factories, Zeeshan Zia, CEO and Co-Founder of Retrocausal, told a Sustainability Day 2024 panel with Eve Psalti, Senior Director at Microsoft, and Michael…
Why Historians Cannot Feed Physical AI
Physical AI systems that interpret sensor telemetry, predict equipment behavior, and trigger automated responses require two data capabilities that traditional historians were not designed to provide: high-resolution historical datasets for model training and continuous real-time telemetry…
How AI Solves Product Complexity in Manufacturing
Two-thirds of manufacturers now report very or extremely complex product portfolios, a 20-point jump in a single year according to Tacton’s 2026 State of Manufacturing Report, which surveyed 280 leaders across eight countries. That complexity is…
AI Vision in Manufacturing Quality Inspection
Cognex reported that Schneider Electric doubled its production yield and eliminated most false rejects after deploying the OneVision AI vision platform across its manufacturing lines. At a 1,200-parts-per-day facility, AI-based inspection saves $342,000 per year compared…
Agentic AI in Manufacturing: ROI vs. Reality
Manufacturers that ship AI agents into production report an average return of 171% on investment and a 34% gain in production efficiency, according to 2025-2026 enterprise deployment data. These results span multiple industrial AI use cases,…
SLMs for Factory Edge Hardware: 2026 Guide
Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Design Studio Copilot now runs Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a 9-billion-parameter open-source model from NVIDIA, directly on HMI panels and air-gapped edge appliances on factory floors. Siemens expects its Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany to become…
AI Agents Fail When Predictions Are Wrong
This article is part of an awareness campaign. Editorially Independent, Sponsored by TDK SensEI.Manufacturers testing AI agents for maintenance face a dependency most teams overlook: the agent is only as reliable as the prediction feeding it.…
Humanoid Robots in Manufacturing: 2026 Data
AGIBOT’s G2 completed 140 continuous hours on a Longcheer Technology consumer electronics production line with a 99.9% success rate. Agility Robotics’ Digit handles bearing components at Schaeffler’s South Carolina factory and has accumulated over 65,000 operating…
Industrial Data and AI Readiness Survey 2027
IIoT World’s sixth annual Industrial Data and AI Readiness Survey is open. Last year, 272 industrial professionals across manufacturing, energy, pharma, and oil and gas responded. Only 7% had AI embedded in core processes, while 44%…
Four Shifts from AI Hype to Real Results
Neil Hoyne, Chief Strategist at Google, author of Converted (Penguin Random House), and Executive Faculty at The Wharton School, delivered a keynote at GE Vernova Accelerate 2026 on how organizations move from data to decisions. Companies…