OEM stories
Local students in Herefordshire will get new help to study engineering and robotics after donors backed NMITE's bursaries.
Vertiv to acquire Italian heat-exchange specialist ThermoKey, boosting EMEA data centre cooling capacity amid rising AI power demands.
British Business Bank pledges up to GBP £50 million to SuperSeed's new Physical AI fund targeting early-stage industrial tech start-ups.
Laser network pioneer Transcelestial lands in Fast Company's 2026 Asia-Pacific top four, joining the World's Most Innovative list.
AI is redrawing the data centre map, shifting investment from hyperscale campuses to distributed, tightly connected regional clusters.
Lightstorm boosts Japan-Guam-Australia subsea cable to 400Gbps, targeting surging AI and cloud demand with higher-capacity, low-latency links.
SRM Tech unveils a global Mobility Practise to expand beyond embedded engineering into software-defined, connected and electrified vehicles.
HPE debuts AI Grid with Nvidia to link AI factories and edge sites, promising telcos unified, ultra-low-latency distributed inference.
Cisco and Nvidia launch a secure AI edge framework to push low‑latency inference from data centres into hospitals, factories and networks.
East West opens Thai motor plant with CBM to expand Asian capacity and give OEMs a tariff-friendly route for US-bound shipments.
NTT DATA launches Nvidia-based 'enterprise AI factories' to help global firms standardise, scale and govern production AI deployments.
Salience Labs unveils a 32-port all-optical switch for AI data centres, promising big latency and power cuts as rack densities surge.
ABB and Nvidia will embed Omniverse into RobotStudio, launching HyperReality in 2026 to narrow the sim-to-real gap in factory robotics.
Australian partners now have wider access to Samsung rugged phones and tablets, with Ingram Micro extending reach into government and frontline sectors.
Higher rates and softer confidence have not stopped smaller firms recruiting, with casual hiring outpacing full-time roles by a wide margin.
Honda aims to cut costly production stoppages, as outages can run above USD $100,000 an hour in manufacturing and disrupt plant operations.
Zetifi has unveiled a Connected Fleet Safety platform in Australia, integrating vehicle and worker risk data directly into Microsoft 365 workflows.
memQ unveils xDQC, a CUDA-Q based distributed quantum compiler to split workloads across linked QPUs and boost complex task throughput.
Goqoro is acquiring SoftBank's +Style smart home brand in Japan, aiming to fuse AI, IoT and robotics into a unified “Future Living” platform.
Xscape Photonics raises $37m to double valuation and launch FalconX, an eight-wavelength redundant laser for AI data centre networks.
