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Six frontier founders. Six markets. One question each: what gives you hope?

What if Europe’s factories get overtaken because they’re too slow to embrace AI?

KUKA, a leading robot maker supplying giants like Volkswagen and Airbus, is turning its eyes to the faster moving markets in the US and Asia. The company highlights that many European industrial firms remain stuck with legacy systems and reluctance to change, leaving factories disconnected and making poor use of their data.

This could be a major wake up call for European manufacturing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-08/robot-maker-kuka-eyes-us-asia-as-europe-s-factories-lag-on-ai

Robot Maker Kuka Eyes US, Asia as Europe’s Factories Lag on AI Many of Europe’s industrial companies are too slow to adopt artificial intelligence, putting faster-moving global rivals in a position to overtake them, according to German-Chinese robotics maker Kuka AG.