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 ...

On a BMW assembly line in South Carolina, a humanoid robot has quietly reached a milestone that many human workers never see, ...

SPARTANBURG, SC—Two humanoid robots have completed an 11-month pilot project at BMW’s assembly plant here.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rfkfxs/global) has announced the addition of the "Global Assembly-Line ...

(CNN) – Chipotle is trying out a robotic assembly line. The Mexican grill chain is teaming up with the food service platform Hyphen on a prototype robot that makes salads and bowls. If a digital order ...

Some joint-design considerations are universal; others vary with the assembly methods used. Each joining technique has particular design requirements, while certain joint requirements may suggest a ...

Robots are an indispensable part of the modern assembly line, whether it’s to mount a steering wheel or pick up packages for shipping at a distribution center. But what if you wanted to shift gears to ...

Lego Mindstorm robots aren’t anything new. That said, Lego robots that might one day replace line workers at a factory (a la the car industry), that is certainly something I’ve never seen before.

A University of Washington team created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object. The team tested this system on a suite of 22 objects ...

In 1913, Henry Ford revolutionized car-making with the first moving assembly line, an innovation that made piecing together new vehicles faster and more efficient. Some hundred years later, Ford is ...