NEW YORK—Meet Baxter, a six-foot-tall, 300-pound industrial robot with a tablet for a face. If you've ever seen or read a sci-fi story where factory ... hit the arm button to pick something ...

The Apptronik Apollo humanoid robot is one of several now being readied by developers for factory and warehouse ... suggested solutions at the touch of a button, driving real efficiency gains ...

push a button or even say a word,” said CSAIL director Daniela Rus in a press release. “A streamlined approach like that would improve our abilities to supervise factory robots, driverless ...

But as one factory in Wisconsin is showing, the forces driving automation can evolve – for reasons having to do with the condition of the American workforce. The robots were coming in not to ...