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 ...
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, ...
The survey questioned 1,000 workers in each of five countries: U.S., China, Japan, U.K. and Germany. Across the board, ...
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 ...
Available with workspaces ranging from 500 to 900 mm, Denso's VS-series robots are used for assembling small medical parts. In contrast to hard automation technologies, robots are flexible systems ...
Fraunhofer researchers have come up with a flexible assembly-line concept that features robots working in the same way they do in automotive production. The developers are presenting their new ...
This one's for the ... birdhouse? Ph.D. students Ben Cohen (University of Pennsylvania) and Mike Phillips (Carnegie Mellon University), along with research engineer Ellis Ratner (RobotWits, LLC) ...
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 ...