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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...