Tuesday, April 7, 2026

TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK

“With an early test operation, we are now determining possible applications for humanoid robots in production. We want to accompany this technology from development to industrialisation.”

— Milan Nedeljković, Board Member for Production, BMW AG

BMW skipped the humanoid hype cycle and ran a pilot instead. Eleven months, 1,250 hours, and 90,000 parts into a single pick-and-place task on the X3 line, the automaker now has what most AI adopters still don’t: real operational data on where the technology actually earns its keep. The leadership lesson isn’t that robots are coming; it’s that the companies learning fastest are the ones running narrow, instrumented trials instead of betting the factory floor. For more, Check out BMW Using Humanoid Robots.

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Chad