AURORA, ON--Magna International Inc., a leading Tier One supplier, will develop and manufacture self-driving cars for Lyft, a leading ride-hailing company. The strategic partnership, an industry first, will enable Magna to mass-produce autonomous vehicles.

ABB has integrated the Baldor Electric Co. into its global brand as a part of its Next Level initiative. A member of the ABB group for more than seven years, Baldor Electric is now known as ABB.

Engineers at Stelia Aerospace, an Airbus subsidiary that specializes in aerostructures and aircraft seating, have created the world’s first self-reinforced fuselage panel. They used additive manufacturing to integrate stiffening structures that provide the reinforcement.

RedViking has created a new business unit. Manufacturing Quality Systems (MQS) will be based at the company's headquarters.

Engineers at Harvard University have developed soft robots that can sense touch, pressure, movement and temperature. The devices feature embedded sensors that were inspired by nature and the human body's sensory capabilities.

The North American robotics, machine vision and motion control market continues to set new records. According to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the industry achieved several milestones in 2017.

WASHINGTON--The  U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has discovered that electricity use in the U.S. manufacturing sector has declined in recent years, reports DailyEnergyInsider.com. The EIA  found, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census Annual Survey of Manufacturers, that many manufacturers generate their own electricity in addition to pulling directly from the electric grid. From 2006 through 2016, the manufacturing sector purchased 87 to 89 percent of their electricity from the grid and generated the remaining 11 to 13 percent on site.

SAN FRANCISCO--Ken Goldberg, a professor at UC Berkeley, and one of his graduate students, Jeff Mahler, recently demonstrated the latest version of a dexterous collaborative robot at EmTech Digital, an event held here this week organized by MIT Technology Review (MTR) and dedicated to artificial intelligence. The key to the robot's dexterity is not in its mechanical grippers but in its brain, reports the MTR website. The robot uses software called Dex-Net to determine how to pick up even odd-looking objects with incredible efficiency.