Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t injured.

The evolution of smart factories is transforming the manufacturing landscape, helping organizations streamline operations, increase productivity, reduce waste, and address labor shortages.

Factories aren't just becoming more automated—they're also becoming more flexible. And human beings, not robots, are the key to that flexibility. How? Here's an example.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC that maintaining robots in factories will be the kind of jobs people will soon do for their whole lives.

Manufacturing processes aren't better just because they are automated. The effort going on right now at the Tesla factory in Fremont brings into the spotlight one of the core problems with ...

Popular media accounts show high tech and highly automated factories as a rule, but the reality on the ground is that huge swaths of industry remain decidedly low-tech and heavily manual.