ANN ARBOR, MI—Robot orders and shipments in North America set new records in 2015, according to Robotic Industries Association. A total of 31,464 robots valued at $1.8 billion were ordered from North American companies during 2015, an increase of 14 percent in units and 11 percent in dollars over 2014.

Transmission manufacturing requires several high-precision tasks. This is not news to Škoda Auto, a Czech automobile manufacturer founded in 1895 as Laurin & Klement.

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI—FANUC Corp. produced more than 400,000 robots in 2015, a record high for the company.

SCARAs perform pick-and-place and other operations.

LEWES, DE—The worldwide market for welding robots is expected to grow 6.09 percent annually through 2019, according to a new forecast from Market Research Reports Inc.

Designing an automated, inline system to perform final quality inspection of a large or complicated assembly can be tricky.

ZURICH—ABB Ltd. has received a $52 million order to supply welding robots for Ford Motor Co.’s assembly plant in Harbin, China.

A new generation of robotics technology will transform appliance manufacturing.

Although it’s one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction machinery, the Liebherr Group believes strongly in decentralization.