If a human worker can do it, why not a robot? Swiss robotics giant ABB recently unveiled a new concept robot that showcases how the company is aiming to have humanoid machines work side by side with ...

The Swiss-based robotics group ABB opened its first global healthcare research hub in the U.S. and unveiled a new concept robot that could assist laboratory staff with their day-to-day tasks. The YuMi ...

ZURICH: Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the ...

ABB has unveiled the world’s first truly collaborative robot: YuMi. YuMi is a human-friendly dual arm robot designed for a new era of automation, for example in small parts assembly, where people and ...

Originally introduced to handle highly repetitive, low-weight tasks such as machine tending, assembly, and smaller packaging operations alongside humans, collaborative robots (cobots) have been ...

ABB has secured a contract to deliver more than 250 robots to Valmet Automotive. The machines, which are to be installed at Valmet’s Uusikaupunki body shop in Finland, will be used to produce the new ...

Autonomous mobile robots are now part of portfolio with robotics and machine automation products, to ad-dress opportunities and challenges presented by individualization and labor and supply-chain ...

SoftBank Group has reportedly agreed to acquire ABB’s robotics business for $5.4 billion, in a move that has marked its boldest push yet to fuse artificial intelligence with industrial automation. The ...

ZURICH, March 15 (Reuters) - ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab is expanding its main US robot factory as its customers there in the automotive, packaging and machinery industries confront a tight labour ...

ABB's new 75,000-square-foot factory will use software meant to allow people and robots to work safely in close proximity, the company said, adding its YuMi robots -- designed to work side-by-side ...

The factory is due to be operating by the end of 2020 and will produce robots for China as well as for exports elsewhere in Asia. (Bloomberg pic) Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, ...