On September 9, 2026, USA Rare Earth broke ground on a new rare earth metal and magnet manufacturing facility in Blacksburg, South Carolina. Chang Robotics is part of the partner team bringing that facility online. We were on site for the ceremony. What follows is what is being built, why it matters, and the work we are doing. What is being built in Blacksburg According to USA Rare Earth's announcement, the facility will sit on a 124-acre site in Bailey Industrial Park in Che

Most conversations about AI on the factory floor start with what the robot can do. Fewer start with where the data goes. Matt Chang, founder and CEO of Chang Robotics, was at the New York Stock Exchange this week for an interview with FINTECH.TV anchor Remy Blaire about physical AI. When asked about his vision for the company, he did not start with robots, he started with privacy. "We're very big into privacy. That's probably the number one thing." Then he drew the line plain

Lasting loyalty is built much earlier. It's built the moment an employee realizes, 'This company is investing in me.' For decades we've been focusing on employee retention. Now it's time to work on becoming the kind of company people don't want to leave.

We need new blueprints to scale production, workforce capability, and industrial competitiveness simultaneously. As seen in Fast Company For anyone in manufacturing or fulfillment, the current topic of conversation is Factory 5.0, also called Industry 5.0. While Factory 4.0 focused on how technology and data can make factories more efficient, Factory 5.0 focuses on collaboration between people and advanced technologies like AI, robotics and advanced automations. Factory 5.0 a

The companies that do well in the future will use AI to move quickly and innovate. As seen in Fast Company In the volatile world of manufacturing, one factor is emerging as the ultimate differentiator in 2026: speed, and in particular, operational velocity. This is the ability to sense market changes, make decisions quickly and decisively, and recover swiftly across the entire value chain. Persistent uncertainties are the new normal right now, ranging from shifting tariffs an

American manufacturing is back. And it arrived with $3 trillion in committed capital, a statutory federal mandate, a tariff wall that makes offshore production economically unviable, and a national security directive that is actively dismantling Chinese technology from the U.S. industrial base. What's driving the advanced robotics supercycle? Six structural forces have converged to create the most unambiguous demand environment for robotics integration in American industrial