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The Association for Advancing Automation announced Hiroshi Fujiwara and Robert Little as the recipients of the 2026 Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Awards. Flex and Teradyne expanded their partnership to deploy robots across Flex's production facilities worldwide.
The Association for Advancing Automation announced Hiroshi Fujiwara, executive director of the Japan Robot Association, and Robert Little, co-founder of ATI Industrial Automation, as the recipients of the 2026 Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Awards. Fujiwara has led JARA's strategic operations since 2009, while Little co-founded ATI in 1989 and grew the company to over $100 million in revenue. Flex and Teradyne expanded their partnership, with Flex planning to deploy Teradyne's robots across its global production facilities to drive operational efficiency. Teradyne reported $91 million in Q1 2026 revenue, its fourth consecutive quarter of growth. Figure AI scaled up production at its BotQ facility.
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