You just knew this was coming. No doubt, you've heard about the staffing shortages in factories. And guess what? The solution seems to be robots. At Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing in Hungary, they’ve ...

Amazon (AMZN) is set to increase efficiency, safety, and speed delivery times through its growing robotics operation that now includes over 750,000 robots. Amazon’s fulfillment centers have ...

It's not uncommon for factories to make use of robots to manufacture things like cars, each responsible for a different part of the build process. Researchers from MIT have created prototype assembly ...

They are said to be near-perfect on the auto assembly line: efficient, uncomplaining, accurate, self-correcting, never on vacation and seldom unable to work. These factory workers are extensively ...

DIY robots are nothing new. 3D printing parts is also nothing new. The combination of the two is also not unheard of. And yet even simple yet substantially functional robots are still in short supply ...

Let’s say you’re an engineer with an idea for a new car. But before you even can start experimenting, you have to spend hours casting screws and making rubber for tires from scratch. This is similar ...

Robot makers may want to follow Ikea's strategy for customer satisfaction and give people a chance to partially assemble their new robots to ease acceptance of the devices, according to researchers.

A photo of a Volkswagen assembly line, not related to the incident. Photo: DPA. A worker was setting up a robot at a Volkswagen factory when the machine grabbed him and pressed him against a metal ...