In Kurt Vonnegut's "Player Piano," workers displaced by robots find themselves with an abundance of material goods but a lack of jobs. Watching robots like those from Kiva -- recently acquired by ...

TRACY, Calif (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has installed more than 15,000 robots across 10 U.S. warehouses, a move that promises to cut operating costs by one-fifth and ...

Want to experience the role of robots in lean manufacturing up close and personal? Visit the warehouses of retailers Staples Inc. or Zappos.com, where hundreds of armless, mobile robots automate the ...