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 ...

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 ...

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 been testing the Figure 02 humanoid robot at its factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, previewing a future in which humanoid robots could become auto plant workers. The Figure 02, revealed ...

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 takes one more step toward a fully automated manufacturing process. The German carmaker signed a deal with robotics startup Figure and intends to put humanoid robots in its plant in South Carolina ...