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.

I think there's a domestic brand or two that's gaining marketshare, but they're not there yet.

There's a myth of Chinese high-tech (esp in cars), that is not to say their stuff isn't technologically advanced, but the characterization that Chinese tech has left Europeans' behind just does not pass muster when one looks at mechanic videos of Chinese EVs.

Their cars look fancy and are full of futuristic screens and sensors, but the suspension setup and lot of engineering behind them is not exactly cutting edge.

That's why a lot of car reviewers say that a lot of their EVs don't drive particularly well

I think pencil is more efficient than SAP.

So one day I stared at it randomly and noticed that the pie chart percentages on one thing didn't even add up to 100. Looked back at history and it turned out this had been the case since day one. Spent a day taking it to bits and a good 50% of it made no sense at all and people had been making business decisions on it without checking it.

And to remediate it? They replaced it with some AI generated slop which is even worse.

I wonder if this is a newly acquired subsidiary producing these robots (they've been doing a lot of acquisitions recently), or if these have been in development in-house for a while.

90% of car manufacturing is done by oldschool industrial robots, and I've had people point out that heavy use of industrial robots are basically unique to the car industry.

You might see a robot arm here and there in other industries, but it's somewhat rare, usually its all purpose-built machines or humans.