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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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realo wrote: post #224
dogemaster2025 wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Certain liberal cities are the “East US.”

Do you mean places like Kansas? Very clearly becoming "East US" : https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-5728969/kansas-revokes-...

Actually Kansas is doing the opposite of East Germany.

East Germany introduced the Transsexuellengesetz in 1980, which allowed people to change their first name or gender, as long as they provided, among other things, two psychiatric evaluations to ensure the condition was permanent, and not some decision driven by some temporary influence or fashion, but a full diagnosis of transsexualismus.

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

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Post by marceldegraaf »

rasz wrote: post #262
marceldegraaf wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently replaced the shock dampers on our Miele washing machine (~10 years old) and I was amazed how well designed and ergonomic the inside of the machine is. Parts are very easy to get at, all screws are Torx of identical size, and there's one very obvious way to take the machine apart and put it back together again. Made the replacement a breeze.

> I was amazed how well designed and ergonomic the inside of the machine is Now do an alternator on a VAG car :)

It was a compliment to Miele in particular, not to all of German engineering ever ;-)

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Post by lexszero_ »

samiv wrote: post #175
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…

In many cases in Germany "digitalization" means there's a PDF which you can download, print, fill out sign and scan and send copy of.

Seamless integration with fax-based workflows!
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