Automation & Robotics

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - AGIBOT has reached a key industrialization milestone with the rollout of its 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot at its Shanghai factory, signaling that embodied AI is moving beyond pilots and demos into scaled deployment across manufacturing, logistics and service environments.

From R&D to Scaled Production Across Three Robot Families

The milestone reflects years of work on stability, reliability and durability in embodied robotics systems. AGIBOT's portfolio now spans three mass-produced humanoid platforms, each tailored to distinct use cases and deployment environments.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 14, 2025 - Ricoh and Neat have formed a global partnership aimed at redefining the future of workplace collaboration through integrated, AI-driven audiovisual solutions. Neat, a global leader in professional AV technology, will join forces with Ricoh-one of the world's foremost AV integrators-to expand Ricoh's high-end meeting-room portfolio and deliver enhanced workplace-experience capabilities to customers worldwide. The agreement is signed at Neat's Mastery Level, the highest tier of its global partner program.

Expanding Premium Meeting-Room Capabilities Through Integrated AV Services

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – October 15, 2025 – Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) and China’s MK Masterwork are deepening their decade-long collaboration to advance automation and robotics in packaging production. The renewed strategic partnership, announced at a joint anniversary event in Tianjin, underscores both companies’ commitment to delivering integrated, end-to-end solutions for the global packaging and printing industry.

A Decade of Partnership Strengthening Global Reach

Since entering a strategic sales agreement in 2015, HEIDELBERG has distributed MK Masterwork’s high-performance finishing systems—including die-cutters, folding carton gluers, and hot-foil stamping machines—outside of China. Over the past decade, approximately 1,500 systems have been installed worldwide, supporting packaging manufacturers in achieving higher efficiency and throughput.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – October 15, 2025 – Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) brought together more than 200 global industry leaders at its new SHIFT 2025 summit to address one of the printing sector’s most pressing challenges: how to remain competitive amid rising costs, labor shortages, and increasingly fragmented order structures. The event underscored the company’s commitment to driving end-to-end process digitization, automation, and hybrid print production through its evolving Prinect workflow platform and AI-supported solutions like Prinect Touch Free.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – August 6, 2025 – Deutsche Telekom has officially expanded its nationwide 5G+ Gaming offering to include iPhone users, delivering ultra-low-latency mobile gaming through its standalone 5G network. As the first European network operator to offer consumer-facing network slicing, the company is redefining mobile cloud gaming by pairing technical innovation with broad accessibility.

Bringing Standalone 5G Gaming to a Wider Consumer Base

Deutsche Telekom’s 5G+ Gaming service leverages its expansive 5G Standalone (SA) network, now the largest of its kind in Germany. Previously exclusive to Android users, the service now supports all iPhones in the 15 and 16 series—including the newly added iPhone 16e—and integrates seamlessly with the latest Samsung Galaxy S25 models. This update significantly broadens access to latency-optimized gaming, targeting both casual and competitive gamers on the move.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – July 2, 2025 – LINAK has introduced its LC3 IC electric lifting column, a pre-tested, ready-to-use solution engineered to simplify demanding lifting tasks in industrial automation projects. This launch provides machinery manufacturers with a proven, instantly deployable alternative to custom-built lifting mechanisms, helping reduce engineering complexity, shorten project timelines, and improve ROI.

A Turnkey Solution for Heavy Lifting Applications

The LINAK LC3 IC stands out as a plug-and-play system designed specifically for industrial environments where precise, reliable vertical movement is essential. Unlike bespoke lifting systems that require extensive development and validation, the LC3 IC arrives fully tested and optimized for immediate integration.

Key features of the LC3 IC include:

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 10, 2025 – Ecolab Inc. has introduced a cutting-edge cooling management solution aimed at transforming the operational sustainability and performance of data centers amid the rapid global expansion of artificial intelligence. The new 3D TRASAR Technology for Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling is designed to monitor critical indicators such as coolant temperature, pH levels, and flow rates in real time, enabling smarter, more efficient cooling strategies for high-performance computing environments.

Tackling AI-Driven Resource Demands

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 4, 2025 – As global data traffic surges and demands on digital infrastructure intensify, aconnic introduces the ACCEED 8000 platform—a robust 100G networking solution built to address the most pressing performance, scalability, and security challenges across telecom, cloud, healthcare, and industrial sectors.

Designed to support the exponential growth of 5G/6G, IoT, and mission-critical applications, the ACCEED 8000 delivers ultra-low-latency performance, carrier-grade reliability, and future-ready flexibility—all essential for next-generation networking.

Solving Today’s Networking Bottlenecks

Enterprise and service provider networks face unprecedented challenges:

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – August 20, 2024 – Sidel, a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions for liquids,has launched SidelGPT, an innovative internal AI solution that prioritizes data security while enhancing employee productivity and creativity. The company's commitment to responsible AI deployment is evident in its integration of Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, ensuring maximum data privacy and control.

SidelGPT: A Catalyst for Efficiency and Innovation

SidelGPT is designed to streamline employees' daily tasks, enabling them to work smarter and faster. By leveraging the power of generative AI, SidelGPT can assist with various activities, from generating reports and presentations to providing insights and recommendations. The solution is continuously being enhanced with Sidel-specific information sources, further amplifying its capabilities and relevance to the company's operations.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – July 30, 2024 – Sidel, a global leader in liquid packaging solutions, today announced the launch of SidelGPT, a groundbreaking internal AI solution designed to empower employees with enhanced productivity and creativity while ensuring maximum data security.

SidelGPT integrates Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, providing employees with a powerful tool to streamline daily tasks, generate ideas, and access information, all within a secure environment that prioritizes data privacy and control.

“SidelGPT is designed to facilitate our employees’ daily tasks and boost productivity and creativity safely, retaining all of Sidel’s data and sharing nothing with the outside world," said Vahe Ter Nikogosyan, VP of Digital Transformation & Technologies at Sidel. “We also are continuing to enhance SidelGPT with Sidel-specific information sources to further increase the power of this generative AI application.”