It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been skyrocketing due to increased automation, courtesy of Litton Industry’s ...

When you have completed applying the Part 2 standard, you have a “robot cell.” Note that this does not necessarily mean that it has guards, fences or cages. It means that the cell is safeguarded so ...

Humanoid robots are moving rapidly from controlled demos into factories, homes, and service roles, raising both excitement and serious safety concerns. A whistleblower lawsuit against Figure AI ...

In this first of a four-part series, Carole Franklin, director of standards and development for robots at A3, unpacks with Machine Design the groundbreaking 2025 update to the ISO 10218 industrial ...