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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20260701/1782885752258621.png" title="1782885752258621.png" alt="1.png"/></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Automate Show remains one of the trade show circuit’s premier events. Year-over-year technology advances are notable, especially in components serving a wide range of manufacturing sectors. While automotive has long been the foundation of automation and robotics, the market share is gaining momentum in food and beverage, consumer goods, and life sciences applications. Real world challenges are being solved with unique solutions featuring Physical AI, prescriptive maintenance, motor management, mechatronics, IoT sensors, robotics, control technology and more. Here’s just a hint of the coverage to come on PTE online and in print in the coming weeks: Universal Robots and AICA Turn to Force Sensing The Universal Robots (Teradyne Robotics) booth featured a UR7e robot executing learned trajectories from human demonstrations that are both adaptive and force-sensing. The robot picked up a metal part and buffed it against a polishing wheel.&nbsp; “We’re taking you station to station across the booth to describe the evolution of Physical AI across several unique robotic applications,” said Christopher Savoia, global head of UR+ Ecosystem. Both the e-Series and UR series robots, for example, have a built-in end of arm force torque sensor that can be leveraged for force sensitive control. In UR terminology, this feature is called force mode and can be used to perform motions along a desired direction or path while being force compliant in certain axes or directions. &nbsp;According to Enrico Eberhard, CTO and co-founder of AICA, the hardware provided by AICA provides special tools and functionalities unique to UR robots including advancements to force sensing technology.</span></p>