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Association for Advancing Automation
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- 1Amazon Shifts From Buying Robots to Building Its Own▼Industry Insights: Amazon Used to Buy Robots. Now It Builds Them.
Amazon, once the largest customer of warehouse robotics vendors, is now designing and building robots in-house. The shift, highlighted in an industry analysis by the Association for Advancing Automation, reflects the company's growing internal robotics engineering capabilities as it automates its fulfilment network. Industry observers see it as a notable turning point for the robotics supply sector.
- 2Detroit Emerges as Hub for Next-Generation Industrial Automation▼Detroit Continues to Evolve as the Hub for the Next Generation of Industrial Automation
Detroit is positioning itself as the leading center for the next generation of industrial automation, according to the Association for Advancing Automation. The city, long synonymous with automotive manufacturing, is increasingly hosting robotics and automation activity as factories modernize and adopt new technologies. The claim reinforces Detroit's ongoing effort to shift its identity from legacy carmaking to advanced manufacturing and robotics innovation.