Automakers are racing to build the first car plant where robots, not people, handle every task from welding to final inspection. The vision of a fully automated “dark factory” is no longer science fiction but a concrete target for the next decade,

A revolutionary ‘dark factory’, where cars are made by robots instead of humans, is set to significantly change car manufacturing in the biggest upheaval for more than 100 years.

Analysts forecast a fully automated car assembly line by 2030, driven by humanoid robots. This transformation will redefine factory jobs, demanding new skills.

The fully robotic car plant that once sounded like science fiction is now a concrete industrial goal, with analysts expecting the first facility where machines build entire vehicles with no human on the line by around 2030.

Chinese robotics start-up AgiBot has secured a major deal with an automotive parts manufacturer to deploy nearly 100 of its A2-W wheel general-purpose robots across the firm's factories. The Shanghai-based company, also known as Zhiyuan Robotics, will ...

Chinese electric car company Xpeng said Wednesday that it plans to start testing robotaxis in Guangzhou and other Chinese cities next year. Xpeng also showed off a new humanoid robot, with plans for mass production by the end of 2026. Like rival Tesla ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious, but familiar, goal for his company's autonomous vehicle business. "We expect to have fully autonomous vehicles in probably, I don't know, somewhere between a quarter and half of the United States by the end of the year,

Tesla plans to more than double capital spending to a record high of more than $20 billion this year - but little of it will go to its traditional business of selling electric vehicles to human drivers.