Agentic AI on the shop floor: from copilot to closed-loop control

Isaac Lab 3.0 goes GA (8,437 stars)

Robot training is moving to simulation first, so the plant's digital model becomes the training ground.

A Spot robot now makes four inspection rounds a day at a Korean power plant

Korea Western Power is using a Boston Dynamics Spot, set up by Korean integrator Clobot, for four 90-minute rounds a day at its Gimpo plant, carrying thermal, ultrasonic, lidar and gas sensors. During validation it caught a natural gas valve anomaly.

Image: Western Power

COPA-DATA puts its zenon SCADA manual behind an MCP server, so an AI assistant can cite it (0 stars)

The server lets an AI assistant search the official zenon documentation and pull full topics with citations, instead of guessing from memory. COPA-DATA says it is not a supported product and anything safety-relevant should be checked against the source docs.

For SCADA and HMI engineers on zenon: grounded answers about the software without digging through the help site.