Association for Advancing Automation

Association for Advancing Automation A3 is your home for all things automation.

Welcome to the improved Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the leading global automation trade association of the robotics, machine vision, motion control, and industrial AI industries. We are your hub for all your automation resources: Products, partners, new applications, training, and information on the latest technologies.

08/27/2026

Roads can be unpredictable, but there are still lanes, signs and rules that create some structure.

Construction sites are different. A robot can move from one room into an entirely new environment with different materials, obstacles, layouts and people.

Ali Agha explains why construction robotics has to account for those corner cases from the start, especially as robots move into increasingly complex human-built spaces.

Selecting a conveyor system involves more than picking a belt and turning it on. Product size, throughput needs, facilit...
08/25/2026

Selecting a conveyor system involves more than picking a belt and turning it on. Product size, throughput needs, facility layout, and future expansion all play a role in finding the right solution.

mk North America has published a whitepaper that walks through how engineers and operations teams approach conveyor selection, including comparisons of belt, pallet, and flexible chain systems.

The guide also covers planning for throughput, integrating with automation, avoiding common specification mistakes, and thinking about long-term scalability.

Learn more here: https://www.automate.org/motion-control/whitepapers/the-ultimate-guide-to-selecting-the-best-conveyor-system-to-meet-your-needs

08/19/2026

Robot ankles are an engineering nightmare. 🦿🤖

Humans flex, rotate and push off without thinking about it. For humanoid robots, recreating that motion can mean adding bulky motors exactly where engineers don’t want them: at the bottom of the leg. ⚙️

That extra weight creates a whole new challenge every time the robot moves.

Nic Radford breaks down why the ankle is one of the toughest joints to recreate in humanoid robotics. 👀

08/18/2026

ChatGPT getting a few words wrong is one thing. A robot getting its next move wrong is very different.

Ali Agha explains why building safe physical AI means accounting for physics and uncertainty, not simply feeding models more and more training data.

The consequences change when AI is controlling a machine in the real world.

08/17/2026

A warehouse can have hundreds of aisles that look nearly identical to a robot.

Now add people, forklifts, changing inventory and the need to know its position with millimeter-level precision.

Andrei Danescu explains why reliable navigation inside a working warehouse is a much tougher challenge than making autonomy work in a controlled environment.

08/11/2026

Huge thank you to the Cirque du Soleil KÀ crew for taking our team behind the scenes in Las Vegas and showing us what audiences rarely get to see. 🎭🤖

The magic on stage is powered by some seriously impressive engineering. A massive moving platform, multi-axis motion control, industrial actuators, real-time sensing, and layers of safety systems all work together to create those gravity-defying moments.

KÀ is a great reminder that automation isn’t only about making things faster or more efficient. It can also enable creativity, precision, safety, and experiences that simply wouldn’t be possible otherwise.

If you’re joining us in Las Vegas for Automate 2027, KÀ is well worth adding to your itinerary. It’s an incredible example of humans, engineering, and automation working together.

Learn more: Automateshow.com

08/10/2026

FIRST isn’t just about building robots. It’s about giving students the chance to build confidence, solve problems, work as a team, and learn what happens when the first idea doesn’t work.

Every bracket tightened, sensor calibrated, and troubleshooting session teaches something bigger than robotics. Students learn how to adapt, communicate, keep going, and turn an idea into something real.

Programs like FIRST can be the spark that turns curiosity about technology into a future in engineering, manufacturing, robotics, or another STEM field.

If we want more young people excited about building the future, opportunities like these are a great place to start.

Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/e_iStq_P



Casey Juliano

08/06/2026

Formula 1 cars and robots are both complex systems where hardware, software, controls and telemetry have to work together perfectly.

Former Formula 1 engineer and Dexory CEO Andrei Danescu explains why the skills developed in motorsport translate so well to robotics, especially when systems need to perform reliably outside the lab.

07/31/2026

Self-driving cars deal with unpredictable roads, but they still operate within a shared system of lanes, signs and traffic rules.

Construction robots may enter a completely different environment every time they move into a new room or jobsite.

Ali Agha of FieldAI explains why these edge cases cannot be treated as an afterthought when robots begin operating in complex, human-built spaces.

Watch the full conversation at automated.fm

07/29/2026

No map, no GPS and no human intervention.

Before founding Field AI, Ali Agha helped develop autonomous legged robots designed to explore Mars-analog caves. The robots traveled several kilometers through cave networks in Oregon, Kentucky and beyond, navigating environments they had never seen before.

Agha describes it as the first deployment in human history of legged robots completing a mission of that scale with zero human touch.

Hear how that work helped shape the technology behind Field AI on the latest episode of the Automated podcast at automated.fm

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