(CNN)-- An automotive assembly line robot killed a worker at a car factory in Germany this week, a prosecutor's office said. The man, 21, was installing the robot at a Volkswagen assembly line on ...

Robots have been working in car factories for decades now, starting with machines performing some welds on a General Motors production line back in 1961. Now, robots work alongside people on ...

A robotics technician at Tesla’s troubled Fremont, California, manufacturing plant is suing the Elon Musk-owned automaker for $51 million after he says an out-of-control robot suddenly struck him ...

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 ...

In a next-level automation move, Chinese EV maker NIO (NYSE: NIO) is piloting humanoid robots on its EV assembly line at one of its factories. NIO manufactures EVs at its two factories in Hefei, the ...

People do incredible things with Lego bricks. They’re a powerful tool to turn any number of ideas into something real and functional. Cars have always been popular Lego products, but a machine that ...

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, ...

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 ...