Krone’s state-of-the-art, smart factory in Ibbenbüren produces complex welded assemblies for the company’s tractors and trailers.

Guangzhou Auto Group is set to begin small-scale production of its humanoid robot, GoMate, in 2026. The robot has already been shown in demo environments and is now being prepared for real industrial use. The company is focusing on automotive and logistics applications.

The newest worker at BMW's Spartanburg plant. A new humanoid robot manufactured by California robotics firm, Figure, has assumed a role in the vehicle assembly process at a BMW plant in South Carolina. According to manufacturer reports, the humanoid is ...

In assembly lines, robots are programmed to perform a single task with high precision. Consider the example of automobile assembly, depicted in the picture above. Cars move along a conveyor belt, passing through various assembly robots. Each robotic arm is ...

Some joint-design considerations are universal; others vary with the assembly methods used. Each joining technique has particular design requirements, while certain joint requirements may suggest a particular joining technique. Design for assembly ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, the implementation of the assembly line led the way for ...

Iman Soltani is developing active vision technology that would allow robots to change their line of sight and viewpoint to complete tasks instead of relying on multiple cameras. Here, Soltani (left) and Andrew Lee, a second-year Ph.D. student in computer ...