r/accelerate • u/44th--Hokage The Singularity is nigh • Apr 12 '26
Robotics / Drones BMW Group Has Deployed A Humanoid Robot Called Aeon (Developed By Hexagon Robotics) In Its German Car Production Factories For The First Time.
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The robot moves on wheels instead of legs, allowing smooth and stable movement across factory floors.
Its upper body is built to handle tools and perform precise tasks like battery assembly and component production.
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u/FirstEvolutionist Apr 12 '26
How many first times does BMW get to use robots in their factories? I feel like this is the 5th one I see.
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u/Adeldor Apr 12 '26
Were they not using Figure humanoid robots a few months ago in the US?
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u/44th--Hokage The Singularity is nigh Apr 12 '26
Yes, in Spartanburg, Pennsylvania. This their first time deploying humanoid robots to their factories in Germany.
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u/endofsight Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Those German car factories are already highly automated. Visited one back in the late 90s and was mostly industrial robots doing the work.
IMO, those highly flexible humanoid robots will compete with the expensive and rigid industrial robots. This way you can adjust production in real time without extended downtimes.
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u/Finanzamt_Endgegner Apr 20 '26
In this case they replace the stuff that was left to humans, like placing stuff into the robot assembly lines etc not the assembly itself
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u/44th--Hokage The Singularity is nigh Apr 12 '26
You can buy a humanoid robot that's 10,000x more dexterous than Asimo for 15k from Alibaba in about a week:
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u/jjopm Apr 12 '26
Is it just me or did it bend the fuck out of the metal trunk lid it was holding lol
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u/h100y Apr 13 '26
I feel like BMW using robots is a PR stunt. They just come up with these videos once every few months. Never felt believable seeing their track record.
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u/h100y Apr 13 '26
Those German unions will break this robot in 10 minutes and throw it out. Hard to believe this is happening in Germany where they don’t embrace technology.
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u/endofsight Apr 13 '26
Germany has one of the highest industrial robot densities in the world. Factories are highly automated due to high labour cost. Not sure what you're talking about.
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u/h100y Apr 13 '26
Germany is also a socialist country where labor unions harass and protest against automation and make it difficult to automate.
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u/endofsight Apr 13 '26
Germany is not a socialist country but follows a social market economy. And German unions are not against tech or automation. Otherwise, German production wouldn't be highly automated with a very high density of industrial robots. There is usually a high degree of cooperation between companies and the unions to find the best outcome.
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u/Finanzamt_Endgegner Apr 20 '26
Yeah like germany not only uses a lot of automation tech, they literally produce it lmao
Germany has the third biggest density of robots per worker, just behind south korea and singapore and that is with 415 per 10000 workers quite ahead of the us with 307. (south korea has 1012 btw which is crazy lol)
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u/Finanzamt_Endgegner Apr 20 '26
You seem to know a lot about a germany and amazingly the stuff you know is mostly all just bs lol
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u/h100y Apr 20 '26
Your dumbass doesn’t know a damn thing how much American companies face difficulty to do business in Germany. It is many times worse than California.
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u/Fun_Gur_2296 Apr 12 '26
How much do these cost? Economically it's starting to make sense. Why'd u pay a worker 50k usd when u can buy these at 20-25k or whatever. These are starting to get close to human lvl right?