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A BMW spokesperson told Fortune a single Figure robot worked at Spartanburg at any given time, and only outside production hours until March. Figure's CEO had described a fleet doing "end-to-end operations."
Serve opened Uptown Dallas to robot delivery through Uber Eats. In the same quarter, its cost of revenue was $1.9 million against $440,465 in revenue.
The contract logistics giant calls its warehouses a lab for humanoids. Its most advanced pilot, Agility Robotics' Digit, has two units working in one facility out of more than 1,000.
Customers within about 2 miles of a Mesquite, Texas Supercenter can get up to 8 pounds of goods dropped by drone. Walmart will set the price later.
An email from "Sam" told a developer that one-device logins were a security feature. There was no such policy, and Sam was a bot.
Canada's nuclear regulator let Ontario Power Generation build one 300-MWe reactor in Clarington, Ontario, with hold points along the way. It isn't licensed to operate yet.
Livermore's laser facility got more than four times the energy it fired into a fuel capsule, thanks largely to a better diamond capsule. It has since had to turn its maximum shot energy down for repairs.
The largest U.S. grid operator signed a multiyear deal to use AI on its slowest job: reviewing requests to connect new power plants. Tapestry's speed results are its own.
The first issuance from the URVARA project covers about 6,000 farmers on 25,000 acres, with plots as small as one acre. The credits' price and farmers' payments weren't disclosed.
With no hard tooling, Divergent printed and robot-assembled fuselages, wings and fins for CoAspire's low-cost RAACM missile by week 10, and test rounds entered ground testing by week 14, the companies say.
Rolls-Royce used to check about 2 million turbine-blade cooling holes a month by hand. Its Signature Analyzer uses machine vibration data and generative AI to tell inspectors where to look, Microsoft says.