Nearly six months after announcing its partnership with BMW, Figure's gleaming silver humanoid robot is making significant progress in its training for manufacturing tasks. A recently released video ...

EVERETT, Washington – Boeing welcomes its robot overlords. After decades of relying on Rosie (and Robbie) the riveter to build airplanes, automated systems are making their way onto Boeing's assembly ...

Fraunhofer researchers have come up with a flexible assembly-line concept that features robots working in the same way they do in automotive production. The developers are presenting their new ...

It's not uncommon for factories to make use of robots to manufacture things like cars, each responsible for a different part of the build process. Researchers from MIT have created prototype assembly ...

Engineers have long envisioned a day when operators and robots would work in tandem, side-by-side on an assembly line. That futuristic image might be drawing ever closer given several advances in ...

Volvo's skilled workers were spending more time on non-value-added tasks—moving material, hooking it up to a crane, and ...

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 ...

Up to now, aircraft have been put together in huge assembly cells, but to build the necessary facilities is expensive and time-consuming. That is why Fraunhofer researchers have come up with a ...