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 ...

The ability of the Baxter robot to work alongside humans is steadily getting better, thanks to continuous software refinements. Brian Buntz In a way, a two-armed robot called Baxter is similar to a ...

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 ...

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.

Several advances in robotic technology creates possibility of humans and robots working in tandem, sharing tools on assembly line. Engineers have long envisioned a day when operators and robots would ...

There’s a love-hate relationship we all have with IKEA. For the cost of an affordable, decent-looking Swedish furniture, you understand that you have to put in the work to assemble the full set. But ...

Engineers have developed a robot that can identify, collect, and manipulate two-dimensional nanocrystals. The robot stacked nanocrystals to form the most complex van der Waals heterostructure produced ...