(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 ...

Efficiency in automotive parts production has improved by 40%, which means new cars can roll off the assembly line faster and at lower costs, ultimately resulting in more affordable prices for ...

Recently, reporters accompanied staff from the Dalian Market Supervision Administration (Dalian Intellectual Property Office) to visit Kunda Automation's R&D testing center. Upon entering, it felt ...

Apptronik's Apollo robots are 5'8 in height and will complete manual labor tasks like bringing parts to the Mercedes-Benz assembly line. Mercedes-Benz is adding Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robots to ...

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 ...

In assembly lines, robots are programmed to perform a single task with high precision. Consider the example of automobile assembly, depicted in the picture above. Cars move along a conveyor belt, ...

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 ...