Trener Robotics raises $32 million in Series A round of funding

Co-led by existing investor Engine Ventures and new investor IAG Capital Partners with participation from strategic investors Cadence and Geodesic Capital, through Nikon’s NFocus Fund, the capital brings their total funding to over $38 million.

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Success of new federal auto strategy lies in the details: industry insiders

The federal government has outlined key measures it plans to use to protect Canadian automotive manufacturing, but industry insiders say success will depend on the details.

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Hammond Power Solutions appoints Annu Yadev as director of product management

In this role, Yadav will lead the strategy for HPS’s dry-type transformer portfolio, ensuring alignment with customer needs, market trends and evolving electrification demands across North America.

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Federal government invests $500,000 to deliver CUSMA Compliance Series, support Ontario SMEs

The government of Canada is investing $500,000 for the Toronto Region Board of Trade and its World Trade Centre Toronto to deliver the CUSMA Compliance Series, a targeted program supporting Ontario SMEs.

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Vention introduces GRIIP, a generalized physical AI pipeline for manufacturing automation

AI-powered software and hardware platform provider Vention has launched the Generalized Robotic Industrial Intelligence Pipeline (GRIIP), and end-to-end physical AI pipeline that enables deployment of autonomous robot cells in highly unstructured manufacturing environments.

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ABB introduces SaaS option for industrial energy optimization software

ABB has launched a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) option for its energy management and optimization platform, ABB Ability OPTIMAX 7.0, alongside improved advanced process control software.

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Flexxbotics releases enhanced MQTT connecter driver on open-source GitHub project

The updated MQTT connector driver expands real-time industrial messaging capabilities to support scalable, event-driven data pipelines and normalized interoperability across heterogeneous factory environments.

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Schneider Electric unveils open, software-defined distributed control system EcoStruxure Foxboro SDA

Schneider Electric has announced EcoStruxure Foxboro Software Defined Automation (SDA), reportedly the industry’s first open, software-defined Distributed Control System (DCS).

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RoboDK launches CAM solution designed to reduce robotic machining deployment times

Robot simulations and offline programming software company RoboDK has launched RoboDK CAM, a software solution designed to reduce deployment times for automated machining cells.

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