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Assemblers continue to invest in robots. Does your assembly plant employ robots? Is it planning to? Share your thoughts!

YOKOHAMA, Japan—Ninety-six percent of the production process at Toyota’s Motomachi assembly plant is completed by robots. The plant employs 760 robots and produces one vehicle every 135 seconds.

The latest technologies for robotics and automated assembly will be on display at the Automatica show June 3-6 in Munich, Germany.

Simulation and testing are vital for determining the feasibility of 3D vision guidance in an application.

As high-mix, low-volume manufacturing increases, so does the need for flexible feeders.

Since the start of the Great Recession in 2008, many Tier 1 suppliers have either closed or downsized.

BERLIN—Global sales of industrial robots increased 5 percent in 2013, reaching a record high of approximately 168,000 units, according to the International Federation of Robotics.

An Airbus assembly plant here is leading a project to introduce humanoid robots to the assembly line.

HUNTSVILLE, AL—Raytheon Co. has revolutionized missile manufacturing at its sprawling, classified factory here, where automated transporters ferry missile parts to gleaming assembly stations, and even tuck themselves away for charging when their batteries run low.

REDDITCH, UK—GKN Aerospace has begun a project that aims to automate the assembly of aircraft structures with the goal of creating high-quality wing structures 30 percent faster than is possible today.