A new floor track system from ATR Strothmann uses a round rail set into and nearly flush with the floor to make it easy to move heavy loads. A new floor track system from ATR Strothmann, Cambridge, ...

Just about every product and machine we come in contact with uses electricity. To keep us safe, almost all of them have built-in safety features, especially those on the factory floor. Technicians, ...

The automotive factory floor doesn't look like it used to. Walk into Hyundai's new Georgia facility or Xiaomi's smartphone plant in China and you'll see robots working alongside humans, and AI systems ...

Factories have been the heart of industry for centuries, dating back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Many factories you see on the news appear to be the height of modernization, but ...

Andrew Ng was the founder of the artificial intelligence research project Google Brain., and his latest company is called Landing.AI. The startup has partnered with the electronics manufacturing giant ...

“Troubleshooting has always been a problem in manufacturing,” says Jonathan Wickström, manufacturing digitalization lead at Husqvarna. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Husqvarna has been around ...

Editor's Note: This story is publishing in partnership with the Financial Times. It originally appeared in the series Robots: Friend or Foe. Walking across the floor of SEW-Eurodrive’s factory in ...