Deflectometry is used to detect any defects on the painted surfaces of the BMW 1 Series, X1 and X2 models produced at the company’s plant in Regensburg, Germany. Photo Credit: All photos courtesy of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Automakers have been using robots to automate and speed up the production of cars for decades, welding the body panels together and painting the finished shell. But the job of spotting and rectifying ...

BMW is taking a page out of Tesla’s playbook by experimenting with artificially intelligent human-like robots at one of its car plants. Figure, a California startup developing said humanoids, ...

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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 ...

With many Americans now considering postponing their retirement because of a lack of accrued savings, inflation worries, and Social Security solvency concerns, that isn't stopping one generation of ...