You just knew this was coming. No doubt, you've heard about the staffing shortages in factories. And guess what? The solution seems to be robots. At Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing in Hungary, they’ve ...

The HMND 01 Alpha prototype marks a major milestone in humanoid robotics, arriving after just seven months of development.

Atlas the robot is heading to the factory floor in Hyundai's Georgia plant and it’s bringing artificial intelligence with it ...

Hyundai holds more than 80% of the robotics company after acquiring it from SoftBank in 2021. At the time, the car maker ...

But if you shrink that robot down, give it the ambulatory capabilities of a human and bathe the whole thing in AI, Hyundai ...

Automakers have long leaned on machinery to manage the heavy lifting in their production facilities. But as technology advances, equipment is evolving into smarter and more complex forms. A recent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...

Mercedes-Benz (MBGAF, MBGYY) is working with Apptronik to automate Mercedes' manufacturing with humanoid robots called Apollo. With a body shape and size similar to a human, Apollo can use tools and ...

Cue the self-replicating robot revolution: Apptronik's humanoid Apollo robot is gearing up to assist in manufacturing copies of itself. That's thanks to a deal between the Texas-based robotics company ...

Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of a new, innovative manufacturing trial in Berlin. U.S.-based Apptronik is part of a testing scheme that explores the role of AI, humanoid robots and the ...