STEAMpunk is a team of Wisconsin high school students in Manitowoc County who build robots to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Our manufacturing process allows us to develop robots that ...

Developments in autonomous robotics have the potential to revolutionize manufacturing processes, making them more flexible, customizable, and efficient. But coordinating fleets of autonomous, mobile ...

Just like bees, the individual robots in this simulation have no master plan. Simply by responding to local cues, they are able to construct honeycomb-like structures. The method could presage a new ...

Elon Musk has spent the past few years promising that a general purpose humanoid worker is not science fiction but Tesla’s ...

A lot of the stuff we use today is largely made by robots—arms with multiple degrees of freedom positioned along conveyor belts that move in a spectacle of precisely synchronized motions. All this ...

Connected systems combining CMMS, SCADA, ERP and monitoring tools can be used to support trustworthy AI predictions and ROI-focused investments. Agentic AI is evolving beyond chatbots into ...

At the abb Smart Power factory in Nelamangala, Bengaluru, the quality inspection process is no longer manual. An artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled camera takes pictures of the finished moulded case ...

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 ...

Gray factories — blending human adaptability with machine precision — are the next era of manufacturing. As a new era of automated manufacturing dawns, “made in China” will increasingly connote work ...