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Autonomous mobile robots carrying shelving across a dark automated warehouse floor in Singapore

Singapore’s ports bet the terminal on autonomous fleets

Tuas Port's fully automated terminal is scaling from pilot to the world's largest single-site deployment of driverless yard operations.
An industrial robotic arm assembling a circuit board under purple and blue light in a Shenzhen smart factory

Shenzhen’s lights-out factories are rewriting the cost curve of electronics

Fully dark production lines — no lighting, no breaks, no headcount — have moved from trade-show theatre to the default bid on new electronics contracts across the Pearl River Delta.
A collaborative robot arm working beside a technician in an automotive components factory in Pune, India

India’s mid-tier manufacturers are leapfrogging with cobots

Collaborative robots priced for the workshop floor are pulling thousands of small Indian factories past a generation of automation they never had.
A vast data centre server hall in Johor with blue and violet status lights stretching into the distance

Johor’s data-centre boom is stress-testing the region’s power grid

The fastest-growing AI infrastructure cluster in Asia is being built faster than the electricity system beneath it. The reckoning will shape where the next trillion dollars of compute lands.
Industrial robotic arm performing assembly work on a production line

Japan’s humanoids leave the lab: inside the first pilot lines

Three Japanese manufacturers have quietly put bipedal humanoid robots onto live production lines. The results are more modest — and more promising — than the demos suggested.
A cleanroom technician inspecting a glowing silicon wafer in a Hsinchu semiconductor fab

The 2-nanometre race runs through Hsinchu

As the next process node enters volume production, Taiwan's science parks have become the most consequential square kilometres in the global economy.
Robotic welders working over EV battery modules on a Korean gigafactory production line

Korea’s battery giants retool gigafactories for solid-state

The first solid-state pilot lines are running, and the capital rotation behind them is the largest in Korean manufacturing since the memory supercycle.
Kuala Lumpur skyline representing Asian metropolitan policy jurisdictions

Asia’s AI rulebooks are diverging — here is what operators must know

Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and New Delhi are writing five different futures for artificial intelligence. Companies operating across the region need a compliance map, not a compliance memo.

AI ROI in Manufacturing: How to Move From Pilots to Production

Watch part one of our conversation with Tobias Leong, Chief Technology Officer, Axium Industries. The full interview is available through AIM Asia Circle . Most manufacturers no longer need convincing that AI…

OT-IT Convergence: The Real AI Advantage in Manufacturing

Manufacturing’s AI Race Has a Workflow Problem Across semiconductor fabs, pharmaceutical plants, and data centres throughout Asia, a familiar pattern is playing out. Leadership teams, under pressure to show they are “doing…

AIM Asia CXO Forum Penang 2026: Powering High-Value Manufacturing with Resiliency: AI, Talent & Green Energy

The manufacturing landscape of 2026 has become unforgiving. Companies which have delayed digital transformation five years ago now find themselves playing catch-up. Those who bet solely on cost arbitrage are losing ground…

Building Quality Culture and Workforce Accountability: Why Talent Resilience Matters for Future-Ready Industries

As industries across Southeast Asia navigate digital transformation, evolving customer expectations, and increasing global uncertainty, one challenge continues to surface across manufacturing, technology, and industrial sectors: how do organisations build a workforce…