Sometimes referred to as “Industry 4.0,” companies in the business of designing machines used in factory automation, such as Siemens AG and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., are locked in a fierce battle to ...

Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas has picked up even more impressive new skills. The parkour expert showed off its problem solving skills in a video titled “Atlas Gets a Grip,” released by the ...

While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. San Francisco-based MicroFactory ...

According to the South China Morning Post, Foxconn, manufacturer of Apple’s iPhone among other electronic equipment, has replaced nearly 60,000 of its factory workers with robots in a bid to cut costs ...