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.
Michael Job notes Eaton, Schneider and Ecolab spent about $15 billion buying liquid-cooling makers, led by Eaton's $9.5 billion Boyd Thermal deal, yet none of their brands made Nvidia's first qualified cooling list. He argues hyperscaler-written specs decide who wins orders. If you buy the gear, write the spec version into design docs and ask bidders which version they built to.
HD Hyundai Electric SVP Ok Kyung-seok says top makers' large transformer lead times are now over five years. He cites Morgan Stanley that only 25 of 72 GW of US data center power need for 2025 to 2028 is secured. A maker putting a date on the transformer wait.
RoboSkills is a free, MIT-licensed skill set that lets coding agents like Claude Code or Codex run robotics tasks, such as learning from a human video into a MuJoCo sim and running auto research. The launch post says cheap models solve some tasks for cents. The repo has 91 GitHub stars as of this morning.
For robotics and automation engineers who want to try agent-driven sim work on a small budget.