BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0455864EN/bmw-group-to-deploy-humanoid-robots-in-production-in-germany-for-the-first-time?language=en

24•JeanKage•2h ago

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dataviz1000•1h ago

Here is a 60 Minutes piece showing Boston Dynamics Atlas working in a car factory in the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ISdRkS37I

u1hcw9nx•58m ago

Hyundai vs BMW, where is Tesla?

tw-20260303-001•48m ago

It's coming, next year, there will be a million of them.

baxtr•4m ago

On the moon or on Mars?

simondotau•32m ago

Tesla beat Hyundai and BMW to this meaningless announcement a year ago, and have already progressed from that to the inevitable “oh yeah, this doesn’t actually work yet.”

Give Hyundai and BMW time.

downrightmike•1h ago

How they work? Without indication

lifestyleguru•59m ago

They communicate through tailing each other and flashing bright lights from behind.

givemeethekeys•58m ago

That's excellent! I look forward to much cheaper cars now that the robots will be making them for the masses.

Flavius•53m ago

Oh, absolutely. Because history clearly shows that when multi-billion dollar corporations save money on labor, they immediately pass those savings directly to the consumer.

Zqwlpaj•49m ago

It is a pilot project. German pilot projects rarely go anywhere. If this succeeds against all odds, I hope for BMW that the robots are buying cars, too.

notahacker•36m ago

Yeah. Feels kind of insignificant considering the amount of non-humanoid robots they've used on production lines for the last few decades and lack of any claims to be "fully autonomous" or for the humanoid robots to be performing particularly advanced tasks

s3p•25m ago

It'll be the first time a BMW ever used turn signals!

amelius•48m ago

Meanwhile China has dark factories.

weinzierl•28m ago

In a sense BMW has factories in China too (through Brilliance). I once heard the story that they built a 1:1 clone of the Dingolfing plant there.

The owner family did the right thing at the right time. If the Europe and US business tanks they will be fine. BMW as a brand not necessarily.

pinkmuffinere•39m ago

I think this is going to be bad for BMW, and bad for the current robotics-summer. I _hope_ that’s not the case, I’d love for robotics to get deployed more widely in manufacturing. But I’m pretty sure it will be. I think the chances of meaningful success would be higher with non-humanoid robotics

krona•21m ago

This is top-tier vagueposting.

r33b33•36m ago

So their cars will get cheaper, right... right???

moogly•31m ago

Will they dance? I've yet to see someone demo a humanoid robot doing something useful. Clearly, making them dance can't be that difficult.

javiramos•28m ago

According to Figure, their robots had already been deployed in production

ge96•22m ago

Not sure what the drawers are on the robot but one of the humanoid robots I saw changed its own battery that was pretty cool (I think it had 2).

Maxion•18m ago

Whenever I hear german companies mention digitalisation, I get reminded that they still use pen and pencil in production environments to log data, pass those sheets to secreteries who enter the data into legacy systems so data analysts can enter it into another system that then has an integration with SAP. Data from SAP then flows onwards to some buzzword filled Azure product that costs a few million a month from which someone downloads an xls file and uploads it to Tableau where they run some simple calculations. Someone else downloads it as an xls and manually writes (not copy pastes) the numbers into a power point presentation and makes graphs by drawing shapes. This is then presented at some bi-monthly meeting.

I wish I was making this stuff up.

dmix•5m ago

Seems to be this European robotics company

https://robotics.hexagon.com/product/

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/hexagon-robotics-ai-software-a...