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 ...

Exclusive: After being struck with ‘the force of an approximately 8,000-pound counterbalance weight,’ court filings say Peter ...

A robotics technician at Tesla's manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, is suing the automaker for an eye-popping $51 ...

Tesla once again finds itself at the center of controversy. A robotics engineer is suing Elon Musk’s company after being hit ...

Tesla is facing a significant lawsuit after one of its factory technicians in California was knocked unconscious by an ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rfkfxs/global) has announced the addition of the "Global Assembly-Line ...

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 ...

Lego Mindstorm robots aren’t anything new. That said, Lego robots that might one day replace line workers at a factory (a la the car industry), that is certainly something I’ve never seen before.

Some joint-design considerations are universal; others vary with the assembly methods used. Some joint-design considerations are universal; others vary with the assembly methods used. Each joining ...

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 ...

In 1913, Henry Ford revolutionized car-making with the first moving assembly line, an innovation that made piecing together new vehicles faster and more efficient. Some hundred years later, Ford is ...