Mercedes-Benz has introduced a new kind of production worker to its assembly line—Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot. Standing ...

There's a race to build more vehicles more efficiently, with Ford, Tesla and others trying to revamp the way cars are made Henry Ford sparked an industrial revolution with the automobile assembly line ...

American car manufacturing dominated the automotive industry in the 20th century. Here's what the factories looked like.

The Model T Ford is often cited as the first mass-produced car in America, and high schools across the United States still applaud Henry Ford as the inventor of the automobile assembly line. But it ...

Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

With a rooster incorporated into the front windscreen, Renault said, the new Megane E-Tech Electric "proudly displays its French origins, made at the Douai factory (in northern France) in the ...

A Michigan-based company is putting a new wrinkle on the decades-old concept of using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) on the factory floor. Combining a battery-free design with a smart electronic ...

The invention of the assembly line is generally depicted in history as one of those “eureka” moments where the idea for the assembly line came into the mind of Henry Ford out of nowhere when he was ...

Even before the move toward modular production, the assembly line was already changing, with the introduction of robotics and some AI. Their promise, in an assembly line of the future, is to enable ...