Shenzhen's AI2 Robotics is mass-producing and shipping AlphaBot 2, including a three-year agreement for 1,000+ robots in display manufacturing at HKC and work at Dongfeng Liuzhou. Humanoids are getting real factory orders in China, not just demos.
FluentHMI-Studio is a C++ and Qt 6 desktop app where you drag widgets onto a screen and bind them to serial, TCP or MQTT data, including Modbus RTU and TCP. It exports a standalone operator app in under a second with no compiler. A free way to mock up an operator screen for a skid or test bench.
For controls techs and hardware engineers building quick operator screens.
GOFish is University of Maryland research code that reconstructs a photo-real 3D scene from fisheye imagery and pairs it with an aligned mesh for collisions in a robot simulator. It is early research code with no license stated. The direction matters for plant digital twins built from a camera walk-through.
For digital twin and robotics teams.
IndustryWeek editors Dennis Scimeca and Scott Achelpohl discuss the announcements and trends from the IFS Unleashed conference, where industrial AI dominated. It is a quick listen on where ERP and asset software vendors are taking agents. It covers a vendor's own event.