Schaeffler and Humanoid announce strategic partnership, rolling out hundreds of humanoid robots over five years

Partnership includes supply agreement for actuators and purchase agreement for humanoids for Schaeffler’s global production network.

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Nominations are open for Advance: Women in Manufacturing Awards program

The annual event moves to an in-person format and introduces its first-ever awards program for 2026.

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Government of Canada investing over $240 million to support SMEs developing dual-use technologies, boost defence innovation

NRC IRAP is launching Defence Industry Assist to provide advice and funding to high-potential, innovative SMEs, to advance made-in-Canada defence and dual-use technologies.

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Terra Penrose named chief people officer for Kraken Robotics

Kraken Robotics Inc. has hired Terra Penrose as chief people officer based out of its Nova Scotia location.

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Balluff Inc. launches the BVS CA-GV 5GigE optical cameras

Balluff’s smallest 5GigE cameras (29 x 29 mm face) reportedly provide high-speed image acquisition with low power consumption.

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Vision Components to present VC MIPI IMX454 Multispectral Camera Module at Photonics West

Vision Components (VC) will present its new VC MIPI IMX454 Camera Module at SPIE Photonics West, taking place from January 20 to 22 in San Francisco, Calif.

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UR and Robotiq showcase palletizing solution at CES 2026 in collaboration with Siemens

The solution combines Robotiq’s PAL Ready palletizing cell with UR’s UR20 robot arm, integrated into Siemens’ automation hardware and new Digital Twin Composer software, which was also launched at the event.

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Lanner unveils EAI-I351 robotic platform powered by NVIDIA Jetson Thor and NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture

Built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor system-on-module (SoM), the EAI-I351 is designed to deliver server-class performance for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), heavy-duty industrial vehicles and edge-native generative AI applications.

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