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142 research articles
Source-linked research on what has been built, what the evidence supports and what businesses can use. External examples are not OfferSignal client results. Each article keeps its source dates, evidence limits and practical implications.
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ROS-Industrial: open robotics support is not a turnkey production cell
The ROS-Industrial Consortium shows how shared open-source engineering, training and member-funded projects can support industrial automation—while integration, safety, commercial data and warranty remain with the responsible companies.
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Rundoo: one operating system for supply stores, with limits beyond catalog work
Rundoo connects point of sale, inventory, purchasing, contractor accounts, delivery and customer payments for independent supply stores. Its reported outcomes are promising but provider-controlled, and configured trusses or engineered bills of materials remain an explicit boundary.
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SFSA's robotic blending milestone: a working cell, not yet a production KPI
The Steel Founders’ Society of America and its ROS-Industrial partners demonstrated perception-driven robotic grinding at Fisher Cast Steel. The case shows what a CAD-free foundry workflow can establish—and what it still cannot prove about quality, throughput or return on investment.
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ShoppingBench: constraint-solving is not autonomous buying
The peer-reviewed ShoppingBench benchmark tests whether shopping agents can satisfy product, seller, knowledge and budget constraints in a simulated catalogue. Its results show the value of governed product data and hard checks, not live customer, payment or ROI readiness.
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Siemens and Scoutbee: supplier discovery before supplier award
The Siemens case shows how AI-assisted supplier scouting can organise profiles and RFI evidence at enterprise scale while leaving final selection with the buyer. Its headline workload and hit-rate figures remain provider-reported, not proof of autonomous procurement or savings.
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Sierra's tau2-bench: coordination is harder when authority is split
The tau2-bench Telecom benchmark separates backend tool use from user-controlled actions. Its measured gap is a laboratory finding about coordination and long action sequences, not evidence of live customer-service, purchasing or payment performance.
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Soource: supplier discovery before the approved RFQ
The Bolzano procurement platform shows how AI can organise fragmented supplier discovery, qualification and outreach without becoming an autonomous purchasing system. Its public claims point to a practical pilot, but not yet to verified sourcing quality, savings or integration outcomes.
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Source.ag: greenhouse forecasts are supply signals, not binding offers
The Dutch controlled-environment agriculture platform connects plant and climate data to harvest forecasts, cultivation decisions and irrigation control. Its reported pilot results show why data quality, denominators and human commercial authority matter before a forecast enters a food-supply commitment.
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Stanford’s phosphate-flotation study: uncertainty-aware optimisation is not plant control
A Stanford Mineral-X research case shows how a partially observable decision process can choose when to measure and when to act in a synthetic flotation model. Its useful lesson is about evidence and experiment design—not verified mine revenue or autonomous plant control.
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STARK Suomi: forecasting can propose replenishment without becoming an autonomous buyer
The Finnish merchant selected RELEX for integrated forecasting and replenishment across 27 stores, four distribution centres and a central warehouse. The public record shows the intended planning workflow, but not a Finland go-live, measured result or supplier-facing purchasing authority.
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Supra Cabinets: visual configuration is not bespoke engineering
Supra Cabinets’ VividWorks deployment shows how a 3D planner can replace time-consuming Photoshop layouts for modular garage storage. It also shows why catalogue rules, current commercial data and human approval still matter before a configuration becomes a quote or order.
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Tacto: industrial procurement intelligence needs governed data before agentic action
Tacto’s procurement platform shows how messy supplier, cost and RFQ data can become a usable industrial workflow. The retained case also shows why reported savings and AI-agent language still require denominators, approval controls and a scoped pilot.
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