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

Post by nradov » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 1:39 AM UTC

dgxyz wrote: post #48

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…

I've seen worse. For 2 years I received the results weekly, that I didn't ask for, of a $1m a year burn reporting stack. This was launched during a massive back patting ceremony like something out of Severance. So one day I stared at it randomly and noticed that the pie chart percentages on one thing didn't even add up to 100. Looked back at history and it turned out this had been the case since day one. Spent a day…

Post by functionmouse » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 1:46 AM UTC

dgxyz wrote: post #48

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…

I've seen worse. For 2 years I received the results weekly, that I didn't ask for, of a $1m a year burn reporting stack. This was launched during a massive back patting ceremony like something out of Severance. So one day I stared at it randomly and noticed that the pie chart percentages on one thing didn't even add up to 100. Looked back at history and it turned out this had been the case since day one. Spent a day…

Post by maxdo » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 2:33 AM UTC

Post by telescopeh » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 2:36 AM UTC

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #46

torginus wrote: post #35

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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…

You reminded me of the hilarious SV pizza making robot startup which has its own robot arm. In this video you see the unnecessary robot arm move the pizza to the oven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN45bTsBUW8 For contrast a How it is Made video of frozen pizzas being created at dozens (hundreds?) per minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UrSIOtv8a0

Post by estearum » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 3:05 AM UTC

jimbokun wrote: post #67

estearum wrote: post #66

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This describes large companies everywhere I encountered oil wells essentially controlled by post-it notes passed around an office.

Maybe they found the PostIt notes worked better than whatever software they tried.