Amid a global robotics skills shortage, RoboDK, a company known for its robot programming tools, has launched RoboDK Academy: ...

Industrial robots have been relegated to large warehouses and manufacturing plants, but now there is a Kickstarter campaign for a basic industrial arm for nontraditional markets. Niryo One is a ...

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Industrial robots like robotic arms are basically everywhere, albeit usually out of the public’s eye in factories. This also means that they get replaced and scrapped all the time, making ...

Your public school education exists, in large part, thanks to the Second Industrial Revolution. When the revolution took hold of America in the 1870s, 30 years after the end of the first, half of the ...

Years before personal computers, at the end of the 1950s, robots were already working in factories–or at least one was. The Unimate 1900 series was the first mass-produced robotic arm for use in ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - At Northcentral Technical College, students are always learning what’s new in the world of automation. It took all summer to build and create and now, their new manufacturing ...

California-based Figure has announced that it is developing a new high-volume BotQ robot manufacturing facility. Developed in-house by Figure, the new factory is designed solely to produce humanoid ...

The manufacturing industry leads to a significant environmental impact, including energy consumption, waste generation, resource consumption (such as materials and water) and emission of pollutants.

Skilled trades and operations: Machine operators, welders and maintenance professionals keep factories running day-to-day.

Each new robot represents the loss of 1.6 manufacturing jobs on average. Robots are estimated to replace about 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030, according to a new report. The global stock of ...