Tools & manufacturing · 2024
Figure humanoids at BMW
A startup humanoid tested on a real car production line.
Figure AI signed a commercial agreement with BMW in January 2024 and tested its humanoids at the Spartanburg plant. Its robots use learned vision-language models for control.
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The dashed line marks when it first worked.
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