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 ...

Let’s say you’re an engineer with an idea for a new car. But before you even can start experimenting, you have to spend hours casting screws and making rubber for tires from scratch. This is similar ...

Robot Assembly Line is an event in Chapter 8. It's automatically activated as you travel through the Robot Factory area inside Castle Doom. First, note that this event can be pretty hard if you're ...

So robots taking over manufacturing jobs is going to be more like a lobster in a pot than a straight up coup. That’s a relief… Everyone who ever introduced a technology that obsoleted a worker has ...

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 ...

Only six months ago, the first robot vs. human marathon was held in Beijing, China, where the robots lost by over an hour and ...

Two new articulated robots from Bosch Rexroth Corp. can move 10.1-lb payloads with 0.02-mm repeatability. Two new articulated robots from Bosch Rexroth Corp., Buchanan. Mich. — the AR6 and AR8— can ...

This is the modern version of Taylor or Gilbreth's work back in the 1930s. When I last looked five or ten years ago, a typical new automobile had about 20-30 hours of labor in it. I'm guessing that ...