But if you shrink that robot down, give it the ambulatory capabilities of a human and bathe the whole thing in AI, Hyundai reckons it can replace the most unreliable element of the modern assembly line: the human laborer. Enter Atlas, one of those humanoid ‘bots I mentioned up top there. As it turns out, Atlas can do more than dodge a hockey stick.

Agility Robotics is opening a first-of-its-kind factory in Salem, Oregon where it will mass produce a line of humanoid robots called Digit. The new factory, which Agility has dubbed the RoboFab, will produce up to 10,000 units a year and employ 500 people ...

An appliance company based in China has developed a six-armed, wheeled “super humanoid” robot for the factory line. The MIRO U from Midea Group, features a humanoid head and a torso that aligns with human-height workstations and includes six fully actuated bionic limbs capable of performing three tasks at once.

Bright Machines Inc., a robotics startup that helps manufacturers more efficiently make products such as servers and batteries, has secured $126 million in fresh funding. The Series C round was announced this morning. Bright Machines received the bulk of ...

End-of-arm tooling (EOAT) for robots has come a long way over the past decade. Prior to the advances made recently, changing EOATs was often difficult, time consuming and offered limited choices. Today, however, EOAT changeovers are relatively quick and ...

A robotics technician at Tesla’s troubled Fremont, California, manufacturing plant is suing the Elon Musk-owned automaker for $51 million after he says an out-of-control robot suddenly struck him without warning, leaving the 50-year-old employee ...