Your BMW is Being Built By Robots 🤯
Figure robots worked at BMW's body shop for six months, performing repetitive sheet metal assembly tasks for 10 hours per day. BMW praised the robots as excellent, integrating them into a highly automated production line alongside massive industrial robot arms.
Summary
The speaker describes how Figure Two robots were deployed at BMW's manufacturing facility for six months of continuous daily operation. These humanoid robots worked in BMW's body shop, which produces X3 and X5 vehicles, performing specific parts of the manufacturing process rather than building complete cars. The robots' primary task involved taking pieces of sheet metal and placing them on fixtures, repeating this process throughout 10-hour shifts. BMW's feedback on the robots was highly positive, with the company praising their performance. The speaker emphasizes that BMW employs some of the world's best roboticists and that their facilities are heavily automated, featuring massive 12-foot robot arms bolted to the floor that can effortlessly move car chassis. The entire body shop production line operates with end-to-end automation, with machines handling both the construction and movement of vehicles. The speaker expresses amazement at the level of automation in the automotive industry and pride in being part of this technological ecosystem.
Key Insights
- Figure Two robots successfully operated for six months at BMW, working 10-hour shifts daily performing repetitive sheet metal assembly tasks
- BMW provided highly positive feedback on the Figure robots, calling them 'great' performers in their manufacturing environment
- BMW's body shop operates with complete end-to-end automation, with machines handling both car construction and movement throughout the production line
- The automotive manufacturing environment features massive 12-foot industrial robot arms that can effortlessly manipulate car chassis as if they were lightweight toys
- BMW employs some of the world's best roboticists and has achieved an extraordinary level of automation that the speaker found unbelievable to witness
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Transcript
We had figure twos at BMW last year that worked six months every single day. They basically have a body shop that builds like X3 and X5s. They didn't build obviously the whole car. There was like a ton of parts, but like we did part of the whole process. We basically take a piece of sheet metal and we basically put on this fixture. We do that over and over again. And they do that 10 hours full shift. What's BMW's feedback? They're great. I mean, they're like the best roboticists in the world. There's robots everywhere. There's these giant 12 foot robot arms on the floor. They're bolstered to the ground. They're massive. These things are carrying car…
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