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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Exclusive: After being struck with ‘the force of an approximately 8,000-pound counterbalance weight,’ court filings say Peter Hinterdobler has already racked up $1 million in medical bills ...

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 ...