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Every part of this series in order, oldest first. 4 of 4 parts laid out. Theme: Humanoid Reality Check.
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.
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."
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.
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.