ManufacturingReported
BMW puts a wheeled humanoid robot to work in its Leipzig plant
Hexagon's AEON robot is delivering materials and testing battery work at BMW's first humanoid pilot in Europe. BMW hasn't published any results from Leipzig.
Physical AI
Humanoids
Humanoid robots on real factory and warehouse floors, and what the customer says they actually do.
ManufacturingReported
BMW confirms its Figure 02 pilot supported 30,000+ X3s. Now it's trying a newer model on a logistics job.
BMW says, in its own words, that its Figure 02 pilot supported production of more than 30,000 X3s over ten months. Its successor, Figure 03, has started a parts-sorting demonstration. There's still no cost data, and no word on whether the first robot hit its speed target.
ManufacturingVendor claim
Figure published its BMW humanoid results. BMW hadn't confirmed them, and the speed results are missing.
Figure says its Figure 02 robot ran 10-hour weekday shifts on a BMW body-shop line and loaded more than 90,000 parts before being retired. It published its speed and accuracy targets but not whether the robot met them.
Logistics & warehousingVendor claim
Agility says its humanoid hit a throughput milestone at GXO. It didn't say how long it took.
Agility Robotics says Digit has moved a six-figure number of totes at GXO's Flowery Branch site and calls that proof of return on investment. The post gives no time period, robot count, uptime or cost.
ManufacturingReported
BMW says one humanoid robot worked at a time, off-hours. Figure's CEO had said "fleet."
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."
Logistics & warehousingReported
GXO is testing humanoid robots from three makers. So far, two Digit robots are at work at one site.
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.
ManufacturingReported
BMW tested Figure's humanoid robot in its South Carolina body shop for several weeks. Here's what it actually did.
A Figure 02 robot placed sheet-metal parts into welding fixtures during a trial at Plant Spartanburg. BMW calls it a success and says it's still working out where humanoids fit. No cost, speed or uptime figures were released.