JOLIET, IL—Lion Electric, a Canadian manufacturer of electric trucks and buses, is investing $70 million to build a new assembly plant here that will be able to produce 20,000 vehicles annually.

MARTORELL, Spain—SEAT S.A. is using autonomous mobile robots to deliver parts to workers at its automotive assembly plant here.

LIVONIA, MI—Artificial intelligence is enabling six-axis robots to assemble transmissions at Ford Motor Co.’s assembly plant here.

PRINCETON, IN—Toyota is investing $803 million to produce two new electric vehicle models at its assembly plant here. The project is expected to create approximately 1,400 new jobs by the end of 2023.

PFLUGERVILLE, TX—Following a successful launch in Europe, EOS is expanding its Additive Minds Academy online training program to the American market.

BROOKLYN, NY—Nanotronics, a science technology company, last week celebrated the opening of its flagship manufacturing center here, located in the Navy Yard's historic Building 20, a 150-year-old former shipbuilding factory.

SIKESTON, MO—Carlisle Construction Materials LLC, a manufacturer of premium building products and related technologies, is investing $62 million and creating 100 new jobs at a new 455,000-square-foot production and manufacturing facility here.

RANJANGOAN, India—Access-hardware manufacturer Southco Inc. recently opened its greatly expanded manufacturing facility here.

WASHINGTON—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching the Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design program, or NOM4D—a program that could enable manufacturing in space and on the moon’s surface.

MERRITT ISLAND, FL—A little more than a year after opening its massive rocket manufacturing center at Kennedy Space Center, Blue Origin LLC has plans to expand it by 90 acres to support its commercial space vehicles that will launch sometime in the 2020s.