Ravikumar Ramanujam is a Chennai-based former business journalist with about 25 years of experience covering industry and the TN economy BY INVITATIONRavikumar RamanujamTwenty years ago, Sriperumbudur was little more than a fast-growing industrial township on the outskirts of Chennai, known primarily for its automobile and component factories. Today, the corridor has emerged as one of…
China-based robotics company Agibot has completed what Chinese state media described as the world’s first livestream of humanoid robots operating across a full tablet production inspection line. The six-day demonstration, which concluded recently after eight humanoid robots worked on an active manufacturing line at Longcheer Technology’s factory in Nanchang, produced 17,625 tablets while achieving a…
General Motors (GM) has deployed 50 collaborative robots at its Factory Zero assembly plant in Michigan. The company has reportedly eliminated more than 1,000 jobs at the facility for the same reason. The move comes after the automaker laid off more than 600 engineers from its IT division in May, which was more than 10%…
