Figure AI's Humanoid Robot Helped Assemble BMWs At US Factory

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By BeauHDAug 6, 2024, 4:52 pm438 ptsTop
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Unlike Tesla, which hopes to develop its own bipedal 'bot to work on its production line sometime next year, BMW has brought in a robot from Figure AI. The Figure 02 robot has hands with sixteen degrees of freedom and human-equivalent strength. "We are…

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