Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Jonathan Reichental covers technology in business and society. We are entering a new industrial revolution, the cognitive ...

AI-enabled and virtual training gets robots to work faster—and will empower a more flexible era of automation. In partnership withSiemens Imagine the bustling floors of tomorrow’s manufacturing plant: ...

Developers have worked with outside partners in manufacturing, as well as the wider Alphabet community, to test the team's software creations, which are designed to train industrial robots using such ...

How could robots potentially bring jobs back to the U.S.? If American companies invest in them. Industrial automation robots improve factory productivity, maximize repeatability, drastically reduce ...

The floor of the chemical factory in Northeast Ohio has looked about the same for decades. Like soldiers in formation, containers come off the assembly line—ranging from little bottles to 5-gallon ...

Robots are getting better at doing human jobs. That’s probably good for the economy — but there are some serious downsides, too. That means about 8.5% of the global manufacturing workforce could be ...

For robotics, from surgical systems to robotaxis, to be integrated into daily life, they need reliable connectivity, writes a ...

The use of robots in industry in 2024 will be marked by “a growing focus on the critical role of AI (artificial intelligence),” said Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics Division. “From mobile ...

Robotics are not just for the automotive industry anymore. With a wave of innovations in dexterity, vision, mobility, connectivity and safety, robots are finding a place in a wide range of industries ...

Manufacturing giant Foxconn has said it plans to use humanoid robots to make servers for Nvidia “within the next six months ...

It’s mostly accepted wisdom in policy circles: automation means that manufacturing employment is destined to follow the historical example of farm work, becoming a negligible share of the U.S.

(CNN)-- Robots are getting better at doing human jobs. That's probably good for the economy — but there are some serious downsides, too. Machines are expected to displace about 20 million ...