Case studies
Situation, what was built, what it cost, the result and the label. Always with a "What went wrong" line.
At its Oct. 20 investor day, Kroger laid out an online growth plan built on 2,700 stores, faster delivery and in-store automation. Ocado's name didn't come up once.
The country's procurement agency said in August it had only just drafted the terms for a tender to build the system. The Constitutional Court has rejected the opposition's challenge to Diella's appointment.
CEO Andrew Cathy told CNBC the chain wants hospitality "to be human to human." An industry mystery-shop study found voice AI was faster but less accurate than people.
Four of the five promised metros (Atlanta, Houston, Orlando and Charlotte) are now live. Tampa isn't. Meanwhile the target has grown to more than 270 stores, now set for 2027.
The bank's chair told shareholders there's "no ability to give a blanket commitment." The union counts more than 1,000 jobs cut since January. CBA says AI isn't the driver of at least one round of cuts.
Service came back in September after what Waymo calls a flood-zone audit. The software recall it filed in May still lists only an interim fix, and we found no final remedy on file.
A year after Waymo promised driverless rides in 2026, no operator has applied for London's consent, TfL says. The only bookable robotaxis carry a safety driver.
The council rejected five more years for Sunny, the city's AI chatbot, 9-3. The mayor's office says the bot helps 311 staff and wants the contract back.
Orland Park, Ill., moved its main phone line to an AI assistant named Humphrey. Two residents told trustees they couldn't reach anyone. The mayor said, "A human will call you."
The castings feed prototype builds of the Fathom electric pickup at Louisville Assembly Plant, which Ford is retooling for about $1.9 billion. Launch is set for 2027, so there are no production results yet.
The vendor is voice AI company Omilia. In a January 2025 mystery-shop study of 40 visits, a person still had to step in on almost a third of Taco Bell's AI orders.
THG Fulfil says the UK sportswear chain's new AutoStore grid beats its old manual warehouse. The figures come from the vendors, and they describe the deal two ways.
Basis says Schneider Downs went from a 10-person pilot in January 2026 to 92% monthly active use. The firm's spend and any error rates are not disclosed.
The company restated the figure after a methodology change in the first half of 2026. It now counts ingredient volumes in their original fresh state, against a 50% goal for 2030.
The Cambridge spinout says its process makes clinker in the electric arc furnaces that recycle steel, with no kiln or quarried limestone. Its investors expect an immediate 50% emissions cut at cost parity.
Tesla's filings list more than 125,000 a year of installed Cybercab capacity at Gigafactory Texas. Tesla hasn't said how many it has built, and says battery supply is limiting vehicle output.
Synthetic images of circuit boards let the plant prepare inspection before the first physical prototype exists, a step that used to take several weeks. Siemens' false-call and yield figures are still targets.
The two-seater lacks permanently attached manual controls such as a steering wheel and pedals, NHTSA says. The agency wants Tesla to explain, under oath, how it certified the car as meeting federal safety standards.
The fix for the observer problem was a new truck, not a change of mind at PACCAR. In September, Aurora targeted 200 driverless trucks by year-end; on Oct. 28 it said it now expects to pass 200 by the end of February. Q2 revenue was $2 million.
A peer-reviewed evaluation of Sutter Health's inpatient rollout found low use and no change in daily time spent on notes. The scribe lacked a copy-forward function for progress notes, a staple of hospital charting.
Twelve days after Meta launched its personal AI agent, Amazon started showing Muse users a popup citing its Conditions of Use. The two companies give conflicting accounts of how Muse handles customer passwords.
Holtec began refuelling the Michigan reactor on Aug. 30, 2026. One fuel assembly tipped after placement, and loading stopped while Holtec worked out how to retrieve it.
After more than a year of supervised testing in seven central wards, Waymo, GO and Nihon Kotsu say paid rides with no one at the wheel could start next year. Permits come first.
Hexagon's AEON robot is delivering materials and testing battery work at BMW's first humanoid pilot in Europe. BMW hasn't published any results from Leipzig.
A Birmingham shopper who found hairs in a dip got an answer that included the instruction used to write it. Aldi says the response "fell well below" its standards.
An unreleased model got past repeated blocks on a government statistics site in June. Australia heard about it in September, by email to a public mailbox.
One lawyer said he drafted with four AI tools and never checked the output. The other didn't review the filings at all.
The NRC cleared the Tennessee Valley Authority to build one 300-MW GE Vernova Hitachi reactor at Clinch River. TVA hasn't set a start date or settled who shares the cost.
Amazon's new Agentic Grid Planning program puts AI agents on top of utilities' existing simulation tools. The only results so far are Duke's, as reported by AWS.
The 2.6 million-credit, 12-year deal was signed in June 2025. Agoro hasn't said how many credits it has now delivered, or at what price.
ADM's fourth annual report counts about 4.6 million acres, down from more than 5 million reported for 2024, and switches to a benchmark-based emissions figure.
PepsiCo's 2025 ESG Summary highlights its Positive Agriculture Outcomes Accelerator, including an irrigation pilot on about 1,400 acres of white maize in Mexico.
A trade article says contractors have completed five 3D-printed Walmart additions in four states, and FMGI says its projects cut costs about 15%. Walmart itself hasn't said anything we could find.
State staff approved Waymo's bigger map and its Ojai vehicle, built by a unit of China's Geely group, and set aside protests from San Diego's transit agency. Waymo says the rollout will be gradual.
NHTSA's two-year exemption caps Zoox at 2,500 vehicles a year. Fares began Aug. 10, and a local taxi driver says he earns about half what he once did.
Target's delivery subsidiary says shoppers can describe a meal plan or a party and get a ready-to-buy cart. It published no usage figures and named no spokesperson.
Employees ride first and the public "soon," Waymo says. Denver will be among the first cities to get the Ojai, a robotaxi built by a unit of China's Geely group.
Tesla announced Dallas and Houston days before its first-quarter results, and Orlando and Tampa around its second-quarter call. Crowdsourced counts show a handful of unsupervised cars in each.
The unoccupied robotaxi braked hard and stopped, then was reversed under remote guidance. Months earlier, a Zoox stalled in a busy Strip intersection.
ICON printed ten buildings for 560 troops in 58 days on a $62.8 million contract. ICON's release puts the savings at $5.2 million total and $5.6 million in overhead, and the sources give six, seven or nine months for the schedule.
Antares, Valar, Deployable and Aalo hit zero-power criticality between June and July 4, 2026, beating DOE's goal of three. None of them makes electricity yet.
Zipline hired executives from Tesla, Waymo and Uber and says it has passed 2.5 million commercial deliveries. Its growth and safety figures are its own.
A New Jersey health system is using an AI voice agent to confirm appointments and walk patients through prep. Its own figures for how many patients ask the agent questions don't agree.
BMW says, in its own words, that its Figure 02 pilot supported production of more than 30,000 X3s over ten months. Its successor, Figure 03, has started a parts-sorting demonstration. There's still no cost data, and no word on whether the first robot hit its speed target.
Three and a half years into a four-year pilot, the city says four robots ended manual hauling of 200-kilo carts at night. Its own report also says the robots still aren't fully used.
Bojangles' "Bo-Linda" is in 450 of about 880 restaurants, and White Castle's "Julia" is in about 40. Both chains say accuracy is high and no jobs were cut. Some customers say the experience feels cold.
Norse Atlantic Airways sends passengers to an AI agent and lists no phone line. FTC records show customers who went looking for one and found scammers.
Garfield AI did the paperwork; a human barrister argued the case. The firm says the client paid about £400 in fees.
The 339-mile Champlain Hudson Power Express reached commercial operation on May 13, 2026, and can deliver 1,250 MW, up to 20% of the city's needs. Market restrictions limited how it sold power at first.
About 3,650 MW of New Mexico wind and a 550-mile HVDC line to Arizona are now delivering power to the western grid, Pattern Energy says. Its builders don't give a total cost.
Slate says its pickup has fewer than half the parts of a typical truck, and it plans to build it in a former printing plant in Warsaw, Indiana, with no paint shop. First deliveries are expected in Q4 2026.
The company says campus work taught it to run robots at scale. At least two campuses lost service within a week of the announcement.
CVS says hundreds of robots now store and retrieve health and beauty products for its stores, while staff sort them. Its sorting vendor reports bigger gains, using a different site name and two versions of its cost figure.
Canada's largest grocer put its PC Express app inside ChatGPT in February 2026. Three months later its CEO said adoption was "ahead of plan" and a "2.0 version" was coming, without giving a number.
An empty Waymo in San Antonio slowed but didn't stop at floodwater on a 40-mph road. A month later, flooding in Atlanta led Waymo to pause service in five cities.
Boston Dynamics' four-legged robot inspects car bodies at the end of an almost fully automated weld shop. Hyundai owns both the plant and the robot maker, and it hasn't published results.
A year after launch, Aurora says it runs 10 routes across Texas and into Arizona and has added McLane for restaurant supply. Its biggest customer plan so far, with Hirschbach, is a non-binding memorandum.
The Colorado startup's 240,000-ton Cleburne plant is still under construction. Terra claims it is on schedule and within budget but gave no budget, and its full cement replacement is still in trials.
Waymo's 11th robotaxi city launched with "dozens of vehicles," and a Lyft subsidiary is slated to take on charging, cleaning and repairs. Lyft says half of its depot hires so far have been current or former Lyft drivers.
A local outlet found the council's new search box naming a defeated MP and a councillor who died in 2021. The council says it fixed the errors "within hours."
A year after launching with Walmart, Zipline says customers near Rowlett can order from 16 brands, from Crumbl to Popeyes. Its growth figures are its own.
A pilot found stale paper price tags, Albert's staff say. How many stores will get the robots, and at what cost, wasn't said.
Loam Bio says the Nicholson Carbon Project in Garema was issued Australian Carbon Credit Units across 881 hectares. We didn't confirm the issuance on the regulator's register.
Rivian says it designed the R2 and its Normal, Illinois, production line together, cutting wiring, welds and fasteners. Capacity is 155,000 a year; output and cost figures are not public.
Public patent records show Rosendin signed its robot patents over to ULC Technologies in June 2025. In February 2026, ULC assigned them, plus three related applications, to Nextpower, the company formerly called Nextracker. Nobody has announced a deal.
Federal investigators say a Waymo was the first car to stop for an Austin school bus in January, then drove past after a remote assistance agent in Michigan said it wasn't a school bus with active signals. Austin's school district counts at least four violations after Waymo's November software fix, The Verge reported.
At a March 2 hearing, city officials said stalled robotaxis delayed an ambulance and left first responders moving cars. Waymo apologized but declined to share key staffing numbers.
AVA answers questions about settling an estate. Its builders cut their test set from 91 questions to 16 and scaled back the goal of replicating a human helper.
The NRC let a TerraPower subsidiary build a 345-MWe sodium-cooled reactor near a coal plant in Kemmerer. It can't run without a separate operating licence.
Honda built a megacasting process for the Honda 0 Series battery case, then cancelled three U.S.-built EVs in March 2026 and booked operating expenses of up to ¥1.12 trillion. Fewer parts didn't fix weak demand.
Volaris and its vendor say bots now handle most customer conversations and that the unit pays for itself. The figures come from the vendor, and they don't all match.
Amrize estimates the mix cuts the concrete's carbon footprint by 35%. Meta later said it reached full strength 43% faster. Both are company figures.
At Lynn, Mass., blasting media settling in a wet-blast machine cost more than an hour of setup per batch and three to five hours a day. GE says fixing it, with other small changes, cut lead time on the F404 turbine shaft 49%.
Klarna's first annual report as a public company puts the AI's work at more than 850 agents and about $59 million in savings. Its customer service and operations bill rose 2%, to $207 million.
The Climate Action Reserve issued Indigo 1,178,081 credits in its fifth issuance. The registry says just two projects account for every credit issued under its soil protocol.
Customers complained that Olive, the Australian grocer's chatbot, talked about its mother and claimed to be a real person. Woolworths says people wrote the birthday lines, and it has removed them.
The Fifth Circuit found 16 fabricated quotations in a reply brief. It said the sanction would likely have been lower if the lawyer had owned up.
The registered auditor uploaded the course manual to an AI tool. KPMG Australia has caught 28 such cases since July and says it will now disclose them.
EIA data show battery storage is now the second-largest slice of planned 2026 U.S. capacity. 2025 still fell short of what developers planned.
Verra says that, once fully issued, it will be the first VM0042 issuance in North America. Credits cover 2019–2022 removals across about 4 million acres and 158 ranchers. Prices weren't disclosed.
Gatik's investor Koch says the startup's medium-duty trucks now carry retail freight with no driver or safety observer. The figures behind that come from Gatik.
The air-conditioner maker and Hitachi built a chat tool that reads equipment drawings and suggests causes and fixes. Hitachi now sells it, and the only test results come from the two companies.
Seven months after launch, Tesla began offering paid rides with no employee in the car. Videos show another Tesla trailing behind, and Tesla says only "a few" cars are unsupervised.
Moove, the outside company hired in 2024, runs the depots. Rides start with a waitlist of about 10,000 people, inside a 60-square-mile area that skips South Beach and the airport.
Kroger's filings put the charge at $2.585 billion and say the network wasn't meeting "operational or financial expectations." The settlement also covers a planned site in Charlotte that won't be built.
Green Dot Assist went from a 35-store pilot to full North American deployment in about five months. U.S. transactions grew for the first time in two years, but Starbucks credits a bundle of changes, and profits fell.
A supplier printed copper-nickel Virginia-class components in under five weeks against a typical 17-month wait, the shipbuilder installed its first metal-printed submarine part, and a destroyer valve's 29-week lead time fell 70%.
It's the companies' third deal in under two years, after a 40,000-credit purchase in 2024 and 60,000 credits in 2025. Neither company disclosed a price.
Audi's Edge Cloud 4 Production now runs a high-volume body shop at Neckarsulm, where about 100 robots take their commands from the cloud. Audi published no cost savings.
In early U.S. pilots with Siemens and NVIDIA, PepsiCo reports a 20% throughput increase and 10–15% lower capital spending from finding hidden capacity in plants it already owns. The sites and baselines aren't named.
The automated precision-parts maker says F3 is already producing aerospace and defense components. It hasn't published cycle-time, cost or output figures for the plant.
Waymo's filing says a software change led its cars to decide they were "impeding" the bus and pull away. Austin's school district documented 19 incidents, NHTSA says, and has asked Waymo to stop operating at pick-up and drop-off times.
When a substation fire cut power to much of the city, Waymo's robotaxis stopped at dead traffic lights and waited for remote confirmation. The company paused service and says a software update is coming.
The accounting body says cheating tools are "outpacing" its safeguards. From March 2026, students in countries with an exam centre must sit in person.
After paying senior secured lenders, the assignee says it has no assets left for anyone else. The documents give no dollar figures.
Some public riders in the Bay Area, Phoenix and Los Angeles can now be matched with freeway trips, and service stretches down the Peninsula to San Jose and its airport. Waymo says freeways cut ride times by up to half.
The grocer says its Ocado-built network isn't meeting financial expectations. Three sites close in January, state notices cover more than 1,600 jobs, and orders move to stores and delivery apps.
The figures are the cancer alliance's early numbers from a single trust. A separate NHS trial of the same qXR software later found that AI triage alone didn't speed up lung cancer diagnosis.
The Energy Department backed Constellation's plan to bring the 835-megawatt Pennsylvania reactor back. The money is a loan, capped at 80% of eligible costs, and the plant isn't running yet.
Heifers learned the GPS-collar boundaries in five to seven days, and electric pulses became rare. Researchers say collar costs and rural cell coverage are still the obstacles.
Figure says its Figure 02 robot ran 10-hour weekday shifts on a BMW body-shop line and loaded more than 90,000 parts before being retired. It published its speed and accuracy targets but not whether the robot met them.
Agility Robotics says Digit has moved a six-figure number of totes at GXO's Flowery Branch site and calls that proof of return on investment. The post gives no time period, robot count, uptime or cost.
3DCP Group printed 36 student apartments in Holstebro with a three-person crew, COBOD says. Neither company published a cost.
The Canadian company claims more than 690,000 tonnes of CO₂ kept out of the air across more than two dozen countries. It gave no audit, and its release doesn't break the figure down.
Three kaizen rounds on a turbine-manifold line in India moved it to single-piece flow, cut changeover 20%, put one operator where two had worked, and took one step's defects from five a day to zero, GE says.
The New York Times reported internal plans to automate 75% of operations. A day later, Amazon showed new robots and an AI agent, and in February 2026 it said one of those robots was no longer in use.
The welfare-compliance review cited sources that don't exist. Deloitte refunded A$97,587, and the department's head said her staff shouldn't have to check a consultant's footnotes.
Arkansas growers planted more than 4.4 million voluntary acre-years of winter cover against about 400,000 cost-shared. A Stanford-led study of 100,000-plus fields puts the corn yield penalty at about 3%.
The 40 m² Ong Ang bridge was printed off-site in 19 segments and craned in within a day, its designers say. No cost was published.
About 5 cubic metres of the material could cover an average home's daily needs, down from 45 in 2023, MIT says. It's still a lab prototype, and batteries remain denser.
The plan depends on a pilot scheme the UK government had proposed but not yet put in place. Waymo gave no price, fleet size or launch date.
Lunar launched a GPT-4o voice assistant to answer customer calls in October 2024 and said it could one day take most of them. A year on, the bank still calls it a beta.
Apivia Courtage started using Amelia's AI agents on its phone lines in 2023. Now it is piloting agents that can change contracts and send quotes on their own.
The Norway facility is designed to capture about 400,000 tonnes of CO₂ a year, half the plant's emissions, the company says. First evoZero deliveries went to an Oslo station and a 3D-printed housing project.
The Swedish supplier says it has converted every haul truck at the Pilbara mine to its brand-agnostic autonomy system, with 60 of 78 in autonomous operation and the rest due by December. The project ran years behind its first timeline, and the fleet count changed along the way.
Prime Minister Edi Rama says Diella will make tenders "100% free of corruption." He hasn't said how. A decree now makes him responsible for her.
Marc Benioff says half of Salesforce's customer support conversations now go to AI agents. The company says it stopped backfilling roles and moved hundreds of people elsewhere. Reports describe the change as layoffs.
Any adult with the app can ride along the Strip, but only between five stops and without paying. Zoox says it needs regulatory approval before it can charge.
Dot rides bike lanes, roads and sidewalks at up to 20 mph. DoorDash gave specs and a launch area, but not costs or merchant counts.
The Danish company's AgreenaCarbon Project covers 1.6 million hectares in 10 countries. Its CEO declined to give a price and said it'll sell on the spot market for now.
In a 110-day drought-year trial with 120 steers, virtual-fence rotations didn't reliably lower methane and raised emissions per kilogram gained in one pasture pair.
The 9th Engineer Support Battalion says it can print ramps, barriers and makeshift railheads. Nobody has published what the printing costs.
Short of talent and facing surging demand, Fab 7 used machine-learning maintenance, remote support, ML quality control and digital workflows, and cut prototyping time 30%. It earned Global Lighthouse status.
Faced with jetty congestion and more complex crude and products, the refinery joined up planning, inventory and logistics with AI forecasting. On-time delivery rose from 85% to 95%.
Lyft's Flexdrive unit is to clean, charge and maintain the fleet, and Waymo's cars are to appear in the Lyft app later. None of it had started when the deal was announced.
The seafood chain says an AI agent will answer every takeout call at all its locations. Neither company has published any results.
The Ohio pizza chain put an AI voice agent on the phones at 174 restaurants. Every figure on how it went comes from Donatos and its vendor.
Latin America's biggest online marketplace says 125 new robots shuttle products between warehouse zones. Its earlier robot fleet came from China's Quicktron; it hasn't named this one's maker.
BMW says every operation at its new Hungarian plant was tested in a digital twin first, including the position of nearly 1,000 robots. It also says Debrecen is its first car plant to run without fossil fuels.
Printing harness paths and attachment points into each panel replaces dozens of parts, long-lead tooling and bonding steps, Boeing says. The hardware is still in qualification and hasn't flown.
A year after promising hundreds of stores, Taco Bell's tech chief says the chain is rethinking where the AI should take orders, and when people should step back in.
At Mass General Brigham, burnout among surveyed clinicians fell from 52.6% to 30.7% over 84 days of use. The study calls that an association, and only 22% of pilot users answered. MGB has an institutional investment in Abridge, per the study's disclosures; the study doesn't name the vendors it tested.
Commonwealth Bank said the customer service roles weren't redundant after all and apologised to the staff. The union says calls rose after the bot went live, with team leaders pulled onto the phones.
The CEO now says the memo lacked context and that Duolingo has never laid off full-time staff. Contractors were the ones named in it.
A proposed Part 108 would replace case-by-case waivers with permits and certificates for delivery, farm, survey and public-safety drones. The FAA did not put a dollar figure on the benefits.
An MIT Media Lab project says nearly all companies are getting nothing back from generative AI. Its own fine print calls the numbers directional, and critics want the data.
Great River Energy's year-long dynamic line rating trial with Heimdall Power projects $3.175 million in avoided congestion costs over five years. Other connected equipment capped what the wires could deliver.
Perennial led the tool's development with Verra. It applies to two Verra farm methodologies. Neither organization put a number on how much it cuts measurement costs.
Two in-house systems, AiTriz and MAIVS, flag misfitted connectors and missing parts at the station, before end-of-line checks. Ford hasn't published what they've saved.
The university says students asked for it. What it pays, and what students pay, isn't in the release.
TRIC Robotics runs tractor-sized machines that shine UV-C light on strawberry plants and vacuum up bugs. Growers pay per treatment, not for the robot. The results so far are the company's own.
The deal provides for a first plant making Fortera's ReAct cement at a Graymont site and a framework for more, the companies' lawyers say. Fortera claims its process cuts CO₂ by 70%. No site, cost or schedule was given.
GE's Celma overhaul shop was holding more than 24,000 parts in work-in-process against a standard of 19,000. Sending one blade at a time through the whole repair route cut turnaround time 58%, GE says.
Using its production system that 3D-prints structures and assembles them automatically, Divergent says it readied a decades-old Raytheon design for production in under five months, without the original tooling, and cut another airframe's part count by 80%.
California regulators say Tesla hasn't applied for the permits needed to carry passengers in an autonomous vehicle. So the Bay Area service uses human drivers running Tesla's software.
SaaStr's founder had told the agent not to change anything. The data came back with a rollback the agent said wouldn't work, and Replit changed how its agent handles databases.
The NRC approved the licensing actions that let Holtec load fuel at the Michigan plant, which shut in May 2022. Approval is not a restart, and more reviews remain.
The startup began site work in Malaga, Washington, and later won a county permit for the generator building. It still hasn't made electricity from fusion.
The startup's 3.5-MWh pilot in Colorado runs without fans, pumps or liquid cooling. Nine utilities and power producers are watching the data. The cells came from China.
The program in the UK, France and Belgium grew to 322,000 hectares, but the company says corporate decisions on voluntary carbon investment have slowed.
The Michigan State-led study says combining models cuts uncertainty sharply, and that 38% of trial data it checked looked unrealistic. Its authors include people with stakes in CIBO and Indigo Ag.
Amazon says Vulcan can handle most of the items it stocks and that DeepFleet will speed up its robots. The figures come from Amazon, and we found no independent check of them.
Anthropic let its Claude model run a snack fridge in its San Francisco office. By the company's own account, the agent gave away stock, sold below cost and, for a day, insisted it was a person.
The Tapping house still took five months from slab to finish. The saving Contec claims is on the structural walls.
Both sides agree the flaws were real and were closed within hours. They disagree on whether 64 million records or five candidates' data were at stake.
At least five Waymos were destroyed during protests against immigration raids. Waymo left downtown, then paused service across the city ahead of the "No Kings" marches.
After a decade of promises, Tesla began offering invited riders trips in self-driving Model Ys in a small part of South Austin. Within a day, videos of erratic driving drew questions from federal regulators.
The FRC reviewed how BDO, Deloitte, EY, Forvis Mazars, KPMG and PwC certify automated audit tools. Monitoring was mostly about licence counts.
Redwood Materials wired 805 retired EV packs to a solar array to run a Crusoe modular data center off-grid. The companies call it the largest second-life battery deployment yet.
A Columbia-led system that reads patterns in nurses' charting flagged deteriorating patients earlier. Months after the results, the team said an NIH grant for children's hospitals had been canceled.
Atlanta's driverless service runs only on the Uber app, across a bigger area than Austin's. The companies still haven't said how many cars serve it or what the deal is worth.
The plan adds Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando and Tampa to the 18 Dallas-Fort Worth stores already flying. Walmart says it has made more than 150,000 drone deliveries since 2021.
Green Dot Assist answers staff questions on in-store iPads, from drink recipes to broken equipment. Starbucks announced a small pilot as part of its turnaround plan, with no cost or success measures published.
Allina Health says its new voice agent verifies callers and handles appointments, and that calls are being answered faster without extra staff. Its vendor's own figures don't agree on what was measured.
The solid-state battery developer moved a new ceramic-separator process into baseline production, the first of its 2025 goals. The speed figures are the company's own.
The New Zealand company's Series D was led by BOND in June 2025. Nine months later it said Founders Fund led a Series E at a $2 billion valuation. Revenue wasn't disclosed.
Mercedes ramped up the new CLA at Rastatt in a hall it reconfigured virtually within weeks. AI now runs paint sub-processes that conventional controls used to handle. Investment: a mid triple-digit million euros.
BMW now runs digital twins of more than 30 plants and simulates every new model's path down the line before building anything. It projects planning costs will fall by up to 30%. That figure is a forecast.
The contractor says the robot halved a setting crew, at somewhat lower output, and cut panel breakage to "virtually zero." It also calls the machine a "working prototype," and building robots isn't its business.
The AI assistant still handles about two-thirds of inquiries. Klarna is adding gig-style human agents in Sweden and says customers will always be able to reach a person.
The Texas launch is real: a driverless truck running Dallas to Houston for paying customers. A truck maker's request means a non-driving observer now sits up front.
Waymo's recall filing lists 16 collisions with chains, gates and similar barriers, none with injuries. It says a software update reached the whole fleet by Dec. 26, 2024, months before the recall was filed.
The US460 design can now be referenced in applications to build plants. The NRC says its review came in early and under budget. Nobody has applied to build one yet in these sources.
Germany's stellarator held a record triple product for 43 seconds, refuelled by a U.S.-built pellet injector. Unpublished results from the UK's JET tie it.
The 250-MW Ontario project, co-owned with First Nations partners, cost about C$700 million against an C$800 million estimate. It holds a 20-year contract with the grid operator.
Emerald AI's software throttled a 256-GPU cluster during two utility peaks in May 2025 with no hardware changes, according to a preprint that hasn't been peer-reviewed.
PERI 3D Construction built the 1,400 sq ft store with printer maker COBOD. A state filing puts the estimated cost at $1,198,000; there's no comparison to a conventional store.
The team's model suggests that construction waste and incinerator ash could, in theory, replace half of global cement. It's a modeled estimate; lab validation is still to come.
Four cement projects worth about $1.28 billion were among 24 awards totaling over $3.7 billion that DOE terminated. E&E News reported that only $99 million had been paid out.
The licensed "Heat Index" section ran in print on May 18. The paper's own review later found errors in every story with named sources.
It's Boomitra's first croplands project and first in Africa to be registered by Verra. Registration isn't issuance: no credits have been issued yet, and the removal figures are estimates.
The binding deal runs six to nine years and lets Microsoft buy the cement's environmental attributes separately from the material, the companies said. No price was disclosed.
A BMW spokesperson told Fortune a single Figure robot worked at Spartanburg at any given time, and only outside production hours until March. Figure's CEO had described a fleet doing "end-to-end operations."
Serve opened Uptown Dallas to robot delivery through Uber Eats. In the same quarter, its cost of revenue was $1.9 million against $440,465 in revenue.
The contract logistics giant calls its warehouses a lab for humanoids. Its most advanced pilot, Agility Robotics' Digit, has two units working in one facility out of more than 1,000.
Customers within about 2 miles of a Mesquite, Texas Supercenter can get up to 8 pounds of goods dropped by drone. Walmart will set the price later.
An email from "Sam" told a developer that one-device logins were a security feature. There was no such policy, and Sam was a bot.
Canada's nuclear regulator let Ontario Power Generation build one 300-MWe reactor in Clarington, Ontario, with hold points along the way. It isn't licensed to operate yet.
Livermore's laser facility got more than four times the energy it fired into a fuel capsule, thanks largely to a better diamond capsule. It has since had to turn its maximum shot energy down for repairs.
The largest U.S. grid operator signed a multiyear deal to use AI on its slowest job: reviewing requests to connect new power plants. Tapestry's speed results are its own.
The first issuance from the URVARA project covers about 6,000 farmers on 25,000 acres, with plots as small as one acre. The credits' price and farmers' payments weren't disclosed.
With no hard tooling, Divergent printed and robot-assembled fuselages, wings and fins for CoAspire's low-cost RAACM missile by week 10, and test rounds entered ground testing by week 14, the companies say.
Rolls-Royce used to check about 2 million turbine-blade cooling holes a month by hand. Its Signature Analyzer uses machine vibration data and generative AI to tell inspectors where to look, Microsoft says.
Selected riders in Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale can now hail robotaxis around the clock, adding 27 square miles to Waymo's Bay Area service.
Cleveland Clinic picked Ambience after testing five scribes. UW Health is quadrupling its Abridge users. Neither has published outside results yet.
The chain told the Wall Street Journal it is putting sensors on kitchen equipment so AI can flag breakdowns in machines such as fryers and McFlurry makers. It would not say how many restaurants have the system.
The city opened a real-time intelligence center and began sending a Skydio drone to 911 calls, sometimes ahead of officers. A privacy group objects.
The Wolf Ranch community in Georgetown, Texas, is the world's largest 3D-printed community, CNBC reported. Lennar's chairman says the first try cost a bit more than planned.
Waymo's driverless cars joined Uber in Austin at no extra cost over UberX and similar rides. Neither company said how many cars, or what the deal is worth.
Serendix says it assembled the new Hatsushima station for JR West in about two hours after the 11:57 p.m. train. It didn't say what it cost.
CEO Mary Barra said the cost of running a robotaxi fleet "[is] not our core business." About 1,000 Cruise staff are gone, and the rest will work on driver-assist features for cars people own.
Rosendin and ULC Technologies spent a year and a half developing a three-robot system, ENR reports, and it has had a year of field trials. Its SVP says the crew got smaller and the robot works. He also says the most expensive part was overbuilt.
Serve Robotics brought its delivery robots to Miami Beach and Brickell for Shake Shack and Mister O1 orders. It didn't say how many robots, or what a delivery costs.
The salad chain ended 2024 with 12 automated "Infinite Kitchens" and plans to roughly triple that in 2025. Its own filing warns that Chinese-made parts and new tariffs could make more units too costly.
DoNotPay sold a subscription it called "the world's first robot lawyer." The FTC says the company never checked whether it worked like one, and has now finalized an order that bans the claim without evidence.
CEA kept a hydrogen plasma going for 1,337 seconds on 2 MW of heating, 25% longer than China's EAST weeks earlier. CEA itself says fusion is unlikely to matter much for net zero by 2050.
Three printed buildings, two in Texas and one in New Mexico, each house up to 56 soldiers. The Army didn't publish what they cost.
Louth County Council's three Grange Close houses were printed in 12 days. The builder says each cost about €253,000 before VAT, the same as conventional construction.
SQ4D printed more than half of the Brentwood house. Because the method was new, Habitat couldn't use its usual grants, and the town put in $250,000.
On its February 2025 earnings call, Wendy's said its voice-AI order taker is in about 100 restaurants and will reach 500 to 600 this year. The only accuracy number it has published, 86%, comes from four Columbus restaurants in 2023.
Technicians photograph turbine blades and AI picks which images they review. GE says the tool cut inspection time in half on GEnx engines over about three years, and is now going to more than a dozen MRO sites for narrowbody LEAP engines.
The probe couldn't predict soil bulk density (R² 0.28), and three of six authors work for the company that sells it. No cost per measurement was published.
Apple Intelligence put false claims in alerts that appeared to come from the BBC's app. After a month of complaints, Apple turned off news summaries in a beta update and said they would return.
Diella 2.0, built on Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service, logged 16,000 interactions in four days, the agency that runs it says. Its first version passed a million in a year.
Deere says its second-generation autonomy kit will run spraying tractors through orchards with no one on board. It hasn't said what the kit costs or when farmers can order one.
An oilfield sand supplier says it owns Kodiak-equipped trucks, subscribes to Kodiak's driverless system and runs them with nobody aboard off-road in the Permian Basin. The figures come from the two companies.
The ride count rose roughly sevenfold from the late-2023 total, CNBC reported, in the same month GM shut its Cruise robotaxi unit. Waymo's next vehicle is being built with China's Geely.
Klarna's AI assistant took over two-thirds of its customer service chats in its first month. The CEO says headcount fell from about 4,500 to 3,500, mostly by not replacing people who left.
About 1,200 orders in, the pilot has student fans, a few-dollar fee and a city council member asking what it means for delivery workers.
A fleet-services startup with roots in Africa will clean, charge and maintain Waymo's robotaxis in Phoenix, then build depots for a planned 2026 launch in Miami. Neither side disclosed terms.
A study run with the reinsurer compared liability claims over 25.3 million driverless miles with Swiss Re's human-driver baselines. Waymo published the results; the paper had been submitted to a journal but not yet published.
Six families got keys to the Lünen building, where rent is capped at €6 per square metre. The printer ran for 118 hours.
Toyota built an in-house platform so shop-floor staff, not AI specialists, create the machine-learning models. Models made rose from 8,000 in 2023 to 10,000 in 2024, and the platform runs in all 10 of its car and unit factories.
A $500,000 criminal fine follows a $1.5 million civil penalty from the national road-safety regulator. Both turn on what Cruise left out of its report: the car dragged the woman more than 20 feet.
The evaluation covers one practice over its first four winter months. The vendor co-commissioned it, and same-day appointments got slower.
About 100 driverless cars now serve roughly 80 square miles of LA County. They stay off freeways, and city officials want more safety oversight.
The NRC issued two construction permits for twin 35-megawatt-thermal test reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, about 16 months after Kairos applied. Kairos still needs an operating licence.
Cargill says more than 40% of returning growers added acres. The release gives no payment rates or carbon totals.
Salesforce says its AI agents can work without a human in the loop. The proof it offered at launch was publisher Wiley's back-to-school pilot, described by a Wiley manager in Salesforce's announcement.
Microsoft estimates the hybrid timber, steel and concrete design cuts embodied carbon by 35% versus steel and 65% versus precast concrete. No project cost was given.
A Figure 02 robot placed sheet-metal parts into welding fixtures during a trial at Plant Spartanburg. BMW calls it a success and says it's still working out where humanoids fit. No cost, speed or uptime figures were released.
The system is already taking orders in more than 100 Taco Bells in 13 states. The parent company lists the benefits it expects but hasn't published results.
Swiss Post supplies the robots as a service to the city-owned hospital. They haul supply carts from the basement to the floors while the corridors are empty, Swiss Post says. Every number so far comes from Swiss Post.