A robotic arm works on the production line at Volvo's factory in Ridgeville, S.C. But other essential jobs, including major portions of final assembly, are still left to people.

There’s a race to build more vehicles more efficiently, with Ford, Tesla and others trying to revamp the way cars are made ...

A robotic arm designed for spot welding in an automotive assembly line might be of little use when a plant wants to pivot to battery assembly for electric vehicles.

Cars Auto Tech Hyundai shows off exoskeleton robot to help assembly line workers It's not the first time we've seen this kind of technology, but Hyundai says its own is best.

Robots follow precise instructions to fix the imperfections using 3M's software, hardware, special abrasives and polishes. The system can even work on a moving assembly line, which is how GM is ...

Montano says that's an assembly line problem, not a robotics problem. "The automotive industry has spent years bolting new technology onto a very old process," he said, referring to Henry Ford's ...

Today, Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA) and other cutting edge automakers are bringing Ford's assembly line into the 21st century thanks to technological advances in robotics.