From drones and humanoid robots to collaborative “cobots” designed to work alongside humans, sophisticated machines are ...

Last year, more than half a million industrial robots were put to work in global factories — with 54% of them in China alone.

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Japan and the Republic of Korea are the early pioneers of automation, establishing the world’s most robot-dense factories ...

Annual installations topped 500,000 units for the fourth straight year, with China leading in installations, the IFR said.

China accounted for more than half of global industrial robot installations in 2024, with a record 295,000 units deployed ...

A collaboration between Mitsubishi Electric and Realtime Robotics enables the development of workcells with a higher density of robots for faster throughput. At Automate 2023, Mitsubishi Electric ...

AI is hot, and nowhere is it hotter than on the front lines where the technology is being used. The companies with the most to gain are the robotics companies, which use AI to power valuable tools and ...

Tesla faces $51M lawsuit after robot knocked technician unconscious at Fremont plant, raising questions about automation ...

Because we've seen so many robots. We've seen Robbie the Robot from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, Rosie the housekeeper from The Jetsons, the animated Gigantor, C-3PO and R2-D2 from late 1970s Star ...

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