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Siemens is on the pulse of groundbreaking innovations. In step with that objective, the Thought Leadership Team at Siemens Digital Industry Software provides podcasts, blogs, articles and white papers based on the knowledge of engineers and experts in their field. We discuss what Siemens is doing in many industries while forecasting the landscape of innovative technologies.

Our team focuses on emerging technologies in the next two to five years that Siemens is investing in and for which we are developing solutions.

Featured posts

Humanoids are needed today

July 10, 2026

Tomorrow’s humanoid robots will be able to integrate into production environments with surprising ease due to converging technologies that will enable machine builders to produce humanoids at scale.

By Bianca Ward
2 MIN READ

Software-Defined Manufacturing Demands Better Hardware

July 7, 2026

Industry has run on gears and grease for decades, and the shift toward driving machines by code is not going…

By Nick Finberg
3 MIN READ

AI that onboards your humanoid

June 26, 2026

Humanoid robots are quickly transitioning from experimental pilots to scalable industrial solutions; and at the heart of this change is AI and simulation.

By Bianca Ward
3 MIN READ

Latest posts

Humanoids are needed today

July 10, 2026

Tomorrow’s humanoid robots will be able to integrate into production environments with surprising ease due to converging technologies that will enable machine builders to produce humanoids at scale.

By Bianca Ward
2 MIN READ

The future of decentralized manufacturing – Podcast Transcript

July 10, 2026

Following the industrial revolution and the rise of globalization, mass produced and consumer packaged goods (CPG) have been manufactured on…

By Spencer Acain
9 MIN READ
An image of a green factory. The image represents the idea of green process industries.

Expert predicts the digital future of the green process industries – Transcript

July 10, 2026

What paths must green process industries take to make alternatives of traditionally petrol-based products?

By Shawn Wasserman
12 MIN READ
The Future Ready Podcast: Industry & Beyond Roche: How to overcome the uncertainty of pharma plant design

Roche: How to overcome the uncertainty of pharma plant design – Transcript 

July 9, 2026

Roche uses a comprehensive digital twin for pharma plant design

By Shawn Wasserman
16 MIN READ

Software-Defined Manufacturing Demands Better Hardware

July 7, 2026

Industry has run on gears and grease for decades, and the shift toward driving machines by code is not going…

By Nick Finberg
3 MIN READ

How to create an copilot for the shop floor

July 3, 2026

Building a copilot may seem as simple as connecting a chatbot to a database but, in an industrial setting, reaching…

By Spencer Acain
3 MIN READ
Agentic AI extends to physical AI

How AI Agents Transform Industrial Operations

June 29, 2026

AI agents are emerging as a transformational technological paradigm across industries, with the potential to reshape how companies design, manufacture…

By Conor Peick
4 MIN READ

Topics in AI systems: Part IV – Practical Applications and Challenges of GNN+LLM Fusion

June 28, 2026

In Part I of this series, we introduced the idea that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)…

By Mohsen Rezayat
13 MIN READ
A highway through a city with continuous streams of car lights captured over time.

Connect data from the factory to on the road with the Digital Twin

June 26, 2026

As cars and vehicles become more complex and software-defined, the role of data in the automotive industry has become more…

By Quinn Foster
3 MIN READ