Beyond Bare Metal: How Automation Is Redefining AI Infrastructure

When CIOs and AI leaders talk about scaling AI, the conversation almost always circles back to a single tension: performance versus flexibility. For years, the conventional wisdom has held that you can’t have both. To get the speed AI demands, you’d have to lock into rigid, bare-metal infrastructure—wasting hardware capacity, ballooning costs, and trapping yourself in inflexible systems that can’t keep up with evolving models or workloads. But that trade-off is dead. Recent MLPerf Inference 5.0 results—independently verified benchmarks—tell a new story. Using VMware Cloud Foundation and NVIDIA H100 GPUs, we ran large AI models like Mixtral-8x7B and GPT-J in a virtualized environment and matched (even outperformed) bare-metal performance. What’s […]

4 Automation Tips to Unlock Packaging Line Flexibility

In the world of consumer packaged goods (CPG), change is the only constant. Consumer preferences shift overnight, product ranges expand to meet niche demands, and packaging designs evolve to stand out on shelves—all while brands race to get products from factory to customer faster than ever. For packaging lines, this means one non-negotiable: flexibility. A rigid packaging line, stuck in fixed processes, can’t keep up. It struggles with frequent changeovers, wastes time on reconfigurations, and misses opportunities to adapt to new trends. The solution? Strategic automation that doesn’t just speed up production, but makes it adaptable. By integrating the right tools and practices, CPG operations can turn their packaging lines into […]

Warehouse Automation: Building a Strong, Data-Driven Business Case

Every order that arrives at a customer’s door, every pallet restocked in a retail backroom, every shipment that meets a tight deadline—behind these moments lies a warehouse operation balancing speed, cost, and reliability. Today, supply chain and fulfillment leaders find themselves navigating a high-stakes paradox: capital is scarce, interest rates are high, and uncertainty looms, demanding cautious spending. Yet at the same time, they’re pressured to process more orders faster, manage rising labor costs, and scale to meet growth—all while keeping operations lean. This is where warehouse automation emerges not as a “nice-to-have” but a strategic necessity. Whether supporting omnichannel retailers, B2B stalwarts, or e-commerce giants, automation transforms core materials […]

Robots on Construction Sites: Why Construction Automation is About Safety, Not Pink Slips

Construction sites across the U.S. are caught in a brutal bind: demand for new housing, roads, and energy projects is surging, yet nearly 400,000 construction jobs sit unfilled. At the same time, the industry remains one of the most dangerous—199 workers died from heavy machinery incidents in 2022 alone, with hundreds more injured by crushes, amputations, or equipment collisions. Into this gap steps Bedrock Robotics, a San Francisco startup that last week announced an $80 million funding round to retrofit bulldozers and excavators with AI-driven automation. The goal, the company stresses, isn’t to replace workers with robots. It’s to ease a critical labor shortage, make deadly tasks safer, and unlock […]

Emerson Launches First Generative AI (GenAI) Automation Solution for Power and Water Industries

Guide: Emerson announced the launch of AI-powered Ovation™ Virtual Advisor, the first generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) virtual advisor software integrated into an automation system and specifically designed for the power and water industries. As a new feature added to Emerson’s Ovation 4.0 automation platform, this AI-powered virtual advisor software can provide real-time insights, improve efficiency, detect anomalies, predict maintenance issues, and support strategic decision-making. Pittsburgh (July 15, 2025) — Emerson (NYSE: EMR), an industrial technology company providing advanced automation solutions, announced the launch of AI-powered Ovation™ Virtual Advisor, the first generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) virtual advisor software integrated into an automation system and specifically designed for the power and water […]

Drivers of Industrial Innovation! How Smart Sensors Are Reshaping Industrial Operations

  Guide: Smart sensors are no longer just “auxiliary tools” but have become one of the indispensable infrastructures in modern industry. Integrating sensing, data processing, and communication capabilities, smart sensors can not only collect real-time data on the environment and equipment operation but also perform local computing and feed key data back to the central system for automatic responses. In the current fast-paced and highly competitive industrial environment, “efficiency”, “precision”, and “safety” have become key words for enterprise operations. Manufacturers, factory operators, and various industrial enterprises are facing multiple challenges: they need to improve productivity, reduce operating costs, while ensuring high-quality standards and employee safety. Against this backdrop, smart sensors […]

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Human-Level AI Is Not Inevitable. We Have the Power to Change Course

“Technology happens because it is possible,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the New York Times in 2019, echoing Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. It’s a Silicon Valley mantra: technology marches forward, unstoppable. Another common belief in tech circles is that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—human-level AI—will lead to one of two fates: a post-scarcity utopia or human extinction. For countless species, humans spelled doom not because we were stronger, but because we were smarter and more coordinated. Extinction was often a byproduct of our goals, not a deliberate act. AGI would be a new species—one that might outthink or outnumber us, seeing humanity as an obstacle (like an anthill in […]

Unleashing the Potential of Collaborative Robots: Reshaping the Future of Industrial Automation

In the wave of accelerated transformation in industrial automation, collaborative robots (cobots) are emerging as a core force redefining production paradigms. Market data shows that the global collaborative robot market is expected to exceed $23.5 billion by 2033. Behind this growth lies a fundamental leap in human-robot collaboration—from “simple coexistence” to “in-depth synergy.” Machines and humans are working precisely in shared workspaces, redefining the production logic of modern factories. From Application Penetration to Technological Upgrade: The Implementation and Evolution of Collaborative Robots Currently, collaborative robots have been widely applied in scenarios such as assembly, welding, and material handling. A study by QNX reveals that 71% of global manufacturing decision-makers have […]