Today, robots are common in production line automation in the manufacturing industry. Other high use areas include food processing, healthcare, warehousing, and logistics.

Automation isn’t a new trend in manufacturing, of course. The automotive industry, for example, used 43% of the robots in the world in 2016.

Breathless headlines predict the end of manufacturing jobs, as robotics and artificial intelligence combine to make human workers obsolete. Videos touting this viewpoint show robots jumping ...

Machines are expected to displace about 20 million manufacturing jobs across the world over the next decade, according to a report released Wednesday by Oxford Economics. North Carolina is among ...

For more than five years, a team has been developing and testing control software under Alphabet's X moonshot factory, aimed at making industrial robots smarter and easier to use. Now the project ...

Tesla and Nvidia produce much noise on the topic, but there are real benefits to human-like robots, writes JOHAN POTGIETER, cluster industrial software lead at Schneider Electric.

In other innovative examples, robots were equipped with sensors so sensitive to the touch, they can pick up raspberries without crushing them. “Think about how you could apply that in manufacturing,” ...

Robots enter new sectors The potential offered by AI-enabled robotics is influencing sectors far beyond manufacturing. In 2024, these technologies are expected to bring substantial efficiency ...

These examples illustrate that properly implementing technology like robots to support corporate strategy can ultimately lead to reduced costs, improved productivity, operational efficiency- and ...

FANUC America, an industrial robot company in Rochester Hills, was cited in SkyQuest Technology Consulting’s new report, Robotics Market — Global Opportunity Analysis, and Industry Forecast, 2025-2032 ...

Beijing "is investing in robots to position itself as the global manufacturing leader," Oxford Economics said. By 2030, some 14 million robots could be working in China, "dwarfing" the rest of the ...