A machine-dominated workplace can make employees more mechanical themselves. But there is room for initiative, and small acts of rebellion.

Amazon’s new recruit comes from a medieval walled town in central Italy and can box and seal at least 600 items of different shapes and sizes every hour. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) might update a safety rule known as the lockout/tagout standard, which regulates the control of hazardous energy while machines and equipment are being fixed—include robotic systems that need a continuous supply of power.

Apple Inc is notorious for keeping what happens in its laboratories a closely guarded secret. But the iPhone maker plans to share openly everything that happens in its newest lab in Austin, Texas.

A reader argues that they increase productivity and are not the real reason for lower wages.

Many companies invest in automation because the tax code encourages it, not because robots are more productive.

They are like us, but unlike us, and both fearsome and easy to bully.

Farms are struggling with a shrinking, aging labor force and a crackdown on immigration. Robots are both replacing humans and attracting young workers.

Recruiting job candidates involves tasks that some think are better performed by robots and other forms of artificial intelligence. But does removing the human element create other problems?

In the latest phase of the Industrial Revolution, robots and humans are working together, each to their strengths, and learning from the failures of leaders who bought into automation too soon and too fast.