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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, car manufacturing companies such as Ford quickly shifted their production focus from automobiles to masks and ventilators. To make this switch possible, ...

At Samsung's mobile-device factory in Gumi, South Korea, roughly three hours away from the country's capital of Seoul, nearly everything is automated. Even the process of putting on the shoe covers ...

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 ...