Elon Musk has said Optimus — Tesla's humanoid robot — is the company's most important product. The billionaire said this week that Tesla would have "thousands" of Optimus robots working in its ...

Automation plays a key role in Toyota’s production, but only to supplement skilled human labor. Skilled workers are still the ...

The promise of laboring machines that look like us may soon be realized in a tsunami of intelligent robots that could change the world of work. Humanoid robots, a.k.a. androids, could achieve a ...

Automation technology is evolving, with robotic process automation having evolved into intelligent automation.

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 ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

Elon Musk's Tesla is looking to fill factories with robots. Other firms, like Cartwheel Robotics, are focusing on human ...

What if somebody built a factory but didn’t hire the requisite hundreds or thousands of people to run it? What if robots did all production work? Surely, that’s the stuff of science fiction. Or, is it ...

China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country, with the United States a distant third, further strengthening China’s already dominant global role in ...

Howard Lutnick has touted a "manufacturing renaissance" as a result of Trump's tariffs. The future of labor is providing maintenance for automated factory technology, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ...