X Square Robot is using the World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing to make a broader argument about the future of physical AI: general-purpose robots will depend as much on data, foundation models and reusable skills as they do on hardware. The company’s demonstrations connect those layers—from embodied-data generation and dexterous manipulation to logistics sorting,…
The next phase of robotics may depend less on teaching robots one task at a time and more on building AI systems that can understand changing physical environments. At the World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing, X Square Robot is demonstrating that approach across logistics, home services and dexterous manipulation, linking its embodied AI models…
Critical infrastructure is becoming harder to secure as energy networks, transportation systems, industrial facilities and digital services become increasingly connected. A new MarketsandMarkets forecast estimates that the global critical infrastructure protection market will grow from $160.28 billion in 2026 to $206.31 billion by 2031, representing a 5.2% compound annual growth rate. The growth reflects a…
Franchise brands face a marketing problem that conventional enterprise software was never quite designed to solve: maintaining a consistent national identity while giving hundreds or thousands of local operators enough flexibility to market to their own communities. Franify, an AI-powered franchise marketing platform developed by Reshift Media, has won a Gold Stevie Award for Technical…
Travelers are already using artificial intelligence to discover destinations, compare options and build trips, but many destination marketing organizations are still treating AI as an emerging experiment. New research from Mindtrip, Sabre, Sojern and MMGY Travel Intelligence found that 54% of travelers have used AI for travel planning and 75% expect to use it on…
AI is changing jobs faster than many traditional HR systems can measure them. Lattice is betting that performance management needs to change with it. The people-management software company has acquired Pando, a just-in-time performance platform focused on competency-based progression and real-time performance signals, and will bring Pando founder and CEO Barbra Gago into its executive…
The enterprise AI market is moving from experimentation toward production, and the next battleground is increasingly agentic AI: systems that can reason across tasks, use tools and data, and execute multi-step workflows. Artizent, an enterprise engineering company focused on cloud, data, software and AI transformation, says it has earned an AWS AI Services Competency in…
For years, companies have optimized websites to win positions on Google. Now a different discovery problem is emerging: what happens when a prospective customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity which company they should consider? Muse Platforms is entering that market with AskHercules.app, a new AI visibility platform designed to show smaller businesses, experts and…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly moving from medical imaging and clinical decision support into the continuous monitoring systems used during procedures. Masimo, a Danaher company, has received CE Mark approval for smartSedLine, a next-generation brain function monitor that uses an AI-powered Patient State Index (PSi) algorithm to make anesthesia monitoring more responsive to changes in brain…
