NEW BRAUNFELS, TX—Continental will invest about $110 million to build a new 215,000-square-foot assembly plant here to make products for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The factory will retain approximately 450 jobs in Texas and add more than 130 new positions to the city.

BEIJING—Airbus has shut down a factory in China that accounts for almost 10 percent of the production of its most popular jet, as precautions taken to contain the coronavirus outbreak ricochet across global industries.

MELBOURNE, Australia—Engineers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology have developed a way to print titanium-copper alloys. The lightweight material is ideal for many types of aerospace and medical device applications.

DETROIT—General Motors plans to invest more than $2 billion in its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce a variety of electric vehicles, including pickup trucks and SUVs.

MUNICH—BMW AG sees artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to improve productivity and efficiency at its assembly plants. The automaker is using the technology for a variety of quality-related applications, such as error proofing and inspection tasks.

NEW YORK—A recent study claims  that states in the Midwest have the highest robot density—typically at least twice the intensity of all other regions.

REDWOOD CITY, CA — Carbon3D Inc. will produce 3D-printed central and lateral air vents for the dashboard of the Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 hybrid sports car, officials from both companies recently announced.