Robotics & Automation
Robotics & Automation covers machines leaving controlled demonstrations and entering real environments. These REVELATIONS stories follow warehouse systems, humanoid hands, agricultural automation, medical robots, and AI-assisted manufacturing. The collection focuses on the moment a machine becomes operational: what work it performs, how people interact with it, and which industries change first.
7 stories in this collection
MISUMI’s Billion-Dollar Leap: Redefining Manufacturing with AI
MISUMI Group's $1B investment combines precision components with Fictiv's digital platform, signaling a major shift in manufacturing. The move is designed to streamline production processes in the Americas and beyond.
SAP’s Warehouse Robots Are Not a Demo. They Are Folding Boxes
The future of work probably will not enter the office wearing a silver suit. It may arrive in a warehouse, fold a box and ask for no applause.
AI Is Coming for the Tomato
For a long time, the “future of food” was discussed like a restaurant concept: vertical farms, lab-grown meat, smart kitchens, protein with better branding. But food production has a less fashionable problem. Someone still has to harvest the crop.
Humanoid Robots Are Learning to Use Their Hands. This Is Where It Gets Personal
French startup Genesis has unveiled an AI model for robots and a human-like robotic hand designed to mirror human anatomy more closely than standard grippers.
The Surgeon Was in London. The Patient Was in Gibraltar. The Operation Still Happened
The operating room used to be one of the most location-dependent places on Earth. The patient, the surgeon, the tools, the pressure, the silence — all had to be in the same room. Now that room is becoming a network.
The Robot Dentist Has Entered the Room. Please Try to Stay Calm
There are few places where humans feel less futuristic than the dentist’s chair. You lie back, open your mouth, hear a machine begin to scream, and suddenly civilization feels very fragile.
AI Is Now Looking Inside the Lungs — and the Robot Knows Where to Go
NHS England has launched a pilot that combines artificial intelligence with robotic technology to help doctors detect and diagnose lung cancer earlier.