You just knew this was coming. No doubt, you've heard about the staffing shortages in factories. And guess what? The solution seems to be robots. At Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing in Hungary, they’ve swapped out some of their human workers for humanoid ...

But if you shrink that robot down, give it the ambulatory capabilities of a human and bathe the whole thing in AI, Hyundai reckons it can replace the most unreliable element of the modern assembly line: the human laborer. Enter Atlas, one of those humanoid ‘bots I mentioned up top there. As it turns out, Atlas can do more than dodge a hockey stick.

(CNN) – Chipotle is trying out a robotic assembly line. The Mexican grill chain is teaming up with the food service platform Hyphen on a prototype robot that makes salads and bowls. If a digital order includes a salad or bowl, it goes to the automated ...