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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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Mercari's listing support: a structured draft is not a verified offer
Mercari's Japanese marketplace shows how photos and AI can accelerate seller listing creation while category choice, field review and publication remain human decisions. The case offers a practical control pattern, but public evidence does not establish field accuracy or causal commercial impact.
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ModuloHouse: a catalogue quote is not a turnkey delivery guarantee
The Romanian modular-home producer shows how bounded model selection, site dependencies and written human approval shape cross-border residential quotes—and where public evidence stops short of proving energy or delivery performance.
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n8n: workflow orchestration is useful when authority stays with the business
The Berlin-founded workflow platform connects applications, data, code and AI into governed processes. Its customer cases show meaningful operational results, while its licence, hosting and approval boundaries matter for industrial and commerce use.
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Norwegian restaurant robot study: carrying aid, not autonomous hospitality
A peer-reviewed Norwegian deployment study shows where a mapped food-delivery robot can reduce carrying in a restaurant—and why a single table example is not proof of full-shift productivity, ROI or safer work.
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Novarc and Yaskawa: adaptive welding is demonstrated, not yet a customer result
The NovAI–Yaskawa integration addresses variable weld joints with machine vision and adaptive control. By 27 October 2026, the public record showed a strategic memorandum and live demonstration, but no named production customer or realised integration metric.
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Novarc's adaptive welding platform: from CAD variation to traceable welds
NovAI connects weld planning, machine vision, adaptive control and production records, but public evidence is stronger for Novarc's earlier SWR productivity results than for isolated autonomous-control or over-the-air improvement.
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Novarc's welding intelligence: traceability before autonomous quoting
NovAI and NovHub show how a welding cell can produce searchable video, parameter and traceability records while adapting to variable fit-up. The retained evidence supports a downstream quality and execution layer, not an autonomous RFQ, quote or order loop.
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Nudge: AI product visibility is not industrial quoting authority
Nudge connects product catalogs to AI-mediated shopping discovery through prompt monitoring, catalog enrichment and shoppable pages. Its reported visibility and order figures are early company claims, so the practical lesson is to pilot standard SKUs with governed data and separate discovery from engineering and commercial approval.
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OECD manufacturing evidence: process optimisation is ahead of proof
The OECD’s EU evidence shows where industrial AI adoption is taking hold, especially in petroleum process optimisation, while exposing the data, integration and measurement gaps that mineral and fuel operators still need to close.
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Online-Mind2Web: a browser benchmark is not a procurement system
The live-web benchmark shows why browser-agent scores must be read alongside task drift, evidence quality and human review. It offers a test-harness pattern for product and quote workflows, not proof of commerce readiness or return on investment.
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Open Robotics GSoC: deterministic robotics infrastructure, not an autonomous quote-to-order system
The 2026 Open Robotics Google Summer of Code work shows where open-source simulation, control and fleet orchestration can support industrial robotics—and where engineering, safety and commercial authority still remain outside the stack.
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Open-RMF: coordinating robot fleets is not a commercial back office
Open-RMF shows how vendor-neutral fleet orchestration can coordinate robots, doors and shared routes, while the Tartu hospital deployment also shows the integration work and evidence limits behind that promise.
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