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BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Re: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Post by bitwize »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #27
krona wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is top-tier vagueposting.

Feel free to ask for more details if you have specific questions! I worked in robotics for many years, I have some decent familiarity with this space. Here’s some more detailed thoughts “for free”: Humanoid robotics are largely a publicity stunt. Our actuators, sensors, and algorithms are better adapted to other form factors. The nice thing about humanoids is that you (in theory) don’t have to change the interface, s…

There's also the idea that a humanoid robot can learn to imitate human action just by watching it, thanks to AI magic!

Re: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Post by monero-xmr »

Maxion wrote: post #23

Whenever I hear german companies mention digitalisation, I get reminded that they still use pen and pencil in production environments to log data, pass those sheets to secreteries who enter the data into legacy systems so data analysts can enter it into another system that then has an integration with SAP. Data from SAP then flows onwards to some buzzword filled Azure product that costs a few million a month from whi…

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Re: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Post by kingjimmy »

Maxion wrote: post #23

Whenever I hear german companies mention digitalisation, I get reminded that they still use pen and pencil in production environments to log data, pass those sheets to secreteries who enter the data into legacy systems so data analysts can enter it into another system that then has an integration with SAP. Data from SAP then flows onwards to some buzzword filled Azure product that costs a few million a month from whi…

They make connecting SAP so difficult... this is the only way

Re: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Post by torginus »

dmix wrote: post #24

Seems to be this European robotics company https://robotics.hexagon.com/product/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/hexagon-robotics-ai-software-a...

My prediction is that by the time humanoid robots actually make it to the factory floor, they'll be pretty un-humanoid.

90% of car manufacturing is done by oldschool industrial robots, and I've had people point out that heavy use of industrial robots are basically unique to the car industry.

You might see a robot arm here and there in other industries, but it's somewhat rare, usually its all purpose-built machines or humans.

Re: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Post by hypeatei »

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #28
Maxion wrote: post #23

Whenever I hear german companies mention digitalisation, I get reminded that they still use pen and pencil in production environments to log data, pass those sheets to secreteries who enter the data into legacy systems so data analysts can enter it into another system that then has an integration with SAP. Data from SAP then flows onwards to some buzzword filled Azure product that costs a few million a month from whi…

That might actually describe a pretty good implementation of an interface to SAP. I think pencil is more efficient than SAP.

I agree and it's quite resilient to digital outages/downtime (at least in terms of hours, probably not more than a few days) so your manufacturing productivity won't drop to zero when the ERP system goes down. The paper logs can also be entered later when the system comes back up.

As we've seen in the Iran conflict, datacenters are a target and result in extended outages.

Re: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Post by fHr »

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #28
Maxion wrote: post #23

Whenever I hear german companies mention digitalisation, I get reminded that they still use pen and pencil in production environments to log data, pass those sheets to secreteries who enter the data into legacy systems so data analysts can enter it into another system that then has an integration with SAP. Data from SAP then flows onwards to some buzzword filled Azure product that costs a few million a month from whi…

That might actually describe a pretty good implementation of an interface to SAP. I think pencil is more efficient than SAP.

true absolute dogshit software

Re: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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Post by rafaelmn »

s3p wrote: post #20
Zqwlpaj wrote: post #8

It is a pilot project. German pilot projects rarely go anywhere. If this succeeds against all odds, I hope for BMW that the robots are buying cars, too.

It'll be the first time a BMW ever used turn signals!

Not if they trained on driver data. Will come with tailgating, lane swerving and flashing high beams as standard. Sonar will be used to judge the minimum distance you can ram behind someone and when to activate high beams.
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