The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

The just-issued World Robotics Report announced an all-time high of 517,385 new industrial robots installed in 2021 in factories around the world, representing 31% year-on-year growth. That brought ...

The history of robots in manufacturing goes back to 1962, when a 4,000-pound, one-armed robot named Unimate was installed at a GM plant in Trenton, New Jersey to lift and stack hot pieces of metal. It ...

It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been skyrocketing due to increased automation, courtesy of Litton Industry’s ...

A global market summary by the International Federation of Robotics reports that 517,000 industrial robots were put in place worldwide during 2021, a +31.0% increase from 2020, and the highest number ...

CES 2026 was awash in walking, lifting, interacting machines. But robots that actually look human aren't necessary in industrial settings. The focus is shifting from humanoid appearance to ...

In summer 2025, you read a news item about plans for humanoid robots to be deployed in South Korean shipyards to tackle ...

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed Tuesday, May 19th Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks founded iRobot, which led the boom in consumer robot vacuums and was just sold to Amazon for $1.7 ...

Worldwide installations of industrial robots reached 542,000 units in 2024, more than doubling the figure from a decade ago, and coming in as the second highest number of units installed in a single ...