Tyson opens new robotics center

The robots have arrived in downtown Springdale, in a black warehouse at 317 E. Meadow Ave., directly behind Tyson's Emma Street technology center. Designed to move chicken legs and packaging, the robots will eventually end up in processing plants across the country. But before that can happen, they will be tested in the new Tyson Manufacturing Automation Center, which opened Thursday. The center offers a space for employees to develop in-house manufacturing processes with suppliers, and to learn how those processes and equipment work. "It is another exciting day in Springdale," Tyson Foods Chairman John Tyson told a crowd at the facility Thursday.