[HN Gopher] BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in...
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BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for
the first time
Author : JeanKage
Score : 22 points
Date : 2026-03-04 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.press.bmwgroup.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.press.bmwgroup.com)
| dataviz1000 wrote:
| Here is a 60 Minutes piece showing Boston Dynamics Atlas working
| in a car factory in the United States.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ISdRkS37I
| u1hcw9nx wrote:
| Hyundai vs BMW, where is Tesla?
| tw-20260303-001 wrote:
| It's coming, next year, there will be a million of them.
| simondotau wrote:
| Tesla beat Hyundai and BMW to this meaningless announcement a
| year ago, and have already progressed from that to the
| inevitable _"oh yeah, this doesn't actually work yet."_
|
| Give Hyundai and BMW time.
| downrightmike wrote:
| How they work? Without indication
| lifestyleguru wrote:
| They communicate through tailing each other and flashing bright
| lights from behind.
| givemeethekeys wrote:
| That's excellent! I look forward to much cheaper cars now that
| the robots will be making them for the masses.
| Flavius wrote:
| Oh, absolutely. Because history clearly shows that when multi-
| billion dollar corporations save money on labor, they
| immediately pass those savings directly to the consumer.
| Zqwlpaj wrote:
| It is a pilot project. German pilot projects rarely go anywhere.
| If this succeeds against all odds, I hope for BMW that the robots
| are buying cars, too.
| notahacker wrote:
| Yeah. Feels kind of insignificant considering the amount of
| non-humanoid robots they've used on production lines for the
| last few decades and lack of any claims to be "fully
| autonomous" or for the humanoid robots to be performing
| particularly advanced tasks
| s3p wrote:
| [delayed]
| amelius wrote:
| Meanwhile China has dark factories.
| weinzierl wrote:
| In a sense BMW has factories in China too (through Brilliance).
| I once heard the story that they built a 1:1 clone of the
| Dingolfing plant there.
|
| The owner family did the right thing at the right time. If the
| Europe and US business tanks they will be fine. BMW as a brand
| not necessarily.
| pinkmuffinere wrote:
| I think this is going to be bad for BMW, and bad for the current
| robotics-summer. I _hope_ that's not the case, I'd love for
| robotics to get deployed more widely in manufacturing. But I'm
| pretty sure it will be. I think the chances of meaningful success
| would be higher with non-humanoid robotics
| krona wrote:
| This is top-tier vagueposting.
| r33b33 wrote:
| So their cars will get cheaper, right... right???
| moogly wrote:
| Will they dance? I've yet to see someone demo a humanoid robot
| doing something useful. Clearly, making them dance can't be that
| difficult.
| javiramos wrote:
| According to Figure, their robots had already been deployed in
| production
| ge96 wrote:
| Not sure what the drawers are on the robot but one of the
| humanoid robots I saw changed its own battery that was pretty
| cool (I think it had 2).
| Maxion wrote:
| Whenever I hear german companies mention digitalisation, I get
| reminded that they still use pen and pencil in production
| environments to log data, pass those sheets to secreteries who
| enter the data into legacy systems so data analysts can enter it
| into another system that then has an integration with SAP. Data
| from SAP then flows onwards to some buzzword filled Azure product
| that costs a few million a month from which someone downloads an
| xls file and uploads it to Tableau where they run some simple
| calculations. Someone else downloads it as an xls and manually
| writes (not copy pastes) the numbers into a power point
| presentation and makes graphs by drawing shapes. This is then
| presented at some bi-monthly meeting.
|
| I wish I was making this stuff up.
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