On a BMW assembly line in South Carolina, a humanoid robot has quietly reached a milestone that many human workers never see, wrapping up a career after helping build more than 30,000 BMW X3 sport ...

Robots have been working in car factories for decades now, starting with machines performing some welds on a General Motors production line back in 1961. Now, robots work alongside people on ...

Nearly six months after announcing its partnership with BMW, Figure's gleaming silver humanoid robot is making significant progress in its training for manufacturing tasks. A recently released video ...

BMW has completed a successful test of humanoid robots from Figure at its BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina. This multiweek test of the Figure 02 robot involved tasks such as inserting ...

From expressive robot faces to factory deployments, these seven stories shaped how 2025 will be remembered in humanoid ...

Robots have been a constant presence on factory floors for so long nobody really cares how they got there anymore. But all of the robots currently in use are simple mechanical arms or other shapeless ...

BMW’s newest employee will be a 5’6”, bipedal, 130-lb. humanoid robot, dubbed 01. Sunnyvale-based Figure AI Inc. has been working on the humanoid robot since 2019 and it will be the first time a human ...

BMW has no timeline to integrate humanoid robots into its production lines. I'm going to ask the same thing that I asked in the Musk thread. Why make it humanoid? Standing on two legs is hard and ...

In assembly lines, robots are programmed to perform a single task with high precision. Consider the example of automobile assembly, depicted in the picture above. Cars move along a conveyor belt, ...