At the Shuoke sports equipment factory in southern China’s Dongguan city, workers at the end of an assembly line box finished sports water bottles for shipment. It’s rare for workers to touch the ...

Most robotics coverage in the media focuses on the headliners. The humanoid unveil. The next big deployment announcement. While we do cover these newer and “hot” technologies in-depth, it’s important ...

In a modest 600-square-foot shop in Ballston Lake, New York, one man has achieved what many small business owners only dream of—a fully automated factory capable of generating millions in product ...

The unsuccessful effort to launch a highly-automated factory for Craftsman tools in the U.S. underscores the challenges American businesses face in bringing manufacturing back from overseas. Craftsman ...

The vision of fully automated factories has already existed for some time now. Customers order online, with electronic transactions that negotiate batch size (in some cases as low as one), price, size ...

Recent advances in the internet of things (IoT) have resulted in an explosion of new products and applications for automation, including smart homes and cities, autonomous vehicles, fastening ...

Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and hazardous terrain. An ...

The new fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) is a catalyst for the next industrial revolution that is giving rise to smart factories worldwide. The Ericsson USA 5G Smart Factory is part of a new ...

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 ...