PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, MI-Robert Bosch Corp. has begun constructing a new Technical Center here. The center, which sits on 76 acres, will cost $37.5 million and enclose 225,000 square feet.

Ann Arbor, MI-North American robotics companies are on pace for a record year, with domestic orders up 30 percent in the first 9 months of 2005.

LOHR, Germany-Drive and control company Bosch Rexroth Corp. has acquired Nyquist BV (Eindhoven, Netherlands), which specializes in motion control applications in the semiconductor and medical manufacturing industries.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-The Malaysia Star is reporting that a Japanese factory manager died after a robotic arm knocked him on the head.