Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t ...

Elon Musk has said Optimus — Tesla's humanoid robot — is the company's most important product. The billionaire said this week that Tesla would have "thousands" of Optimus robots working in its ...

Annual installations of robots in the world’s factories exceeded half a million for the third straight year, pushing the total to 4.3 million at the end of 2023, according to the International ...

American industry has a path forward, but most of the U.S. labor force isn’t interested, so robots could fill the labor gap.

Most people associate factory automation with large robotic machines, such as those that weld automobile chassis on assembly lines. But as prices drop and technology improves, robots are being ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC that maintaining robots in factories will be the kind of jobs people will soon do for their whole lives.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many factory owners invested heavily in automation as the best way to meet customer demand. But now, factories are adding fewer new robots as production slows and ...

If you’re a manufacturer who wants robots to work in your factory, then you can think of a robot as an “automatically controlled… manipulator” (to paraphrase the International Federation ...

Killer robots are already among us. Not weaponised drones, but industrial robots working alongside humans in factories that can cause significant injuries and occasionally deaths if an accident ...

FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The new World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) shows a record of 2.7 million ...

Elon Musk dreams of Tesla's Optimus robots working in huge numbers in factories — but not everyone is convinced.