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Figure 02 Humanoid Robot Completes 10,000 Autonomous Cycles at BMW Spartanburg Plant

Figure's second-generation commercial bipedal robot successfully automates sheet metal sub-assembly insertion at BMW's US manufacturing plant with 99.8% precision.

Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks
Editor-in-Chief, SDUP (PC Hardware, GPUs & Gaming)
Figure 02 Humanoid Robot Completes 10,000 Autonomous Cycles at BMW Spartanburg Plant
Figure 02 Humanoid Robot Completes 10,000 Autonomous Cycles at BMW Spartanburg Plant — Editorial Visual / Silicon Dispatch US
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Figure's second-generation commercial bipedal robot successfully automates sheet metal sub-assembly insertion at BMW's US manufacturing plant with 99.8% precision.

Robotics Benchmark: The Figure 02 humanoid robot has completed a milestone 10,000-cycle autonomous endurance trial at BMW Manufacturing in South Carolina, performing sub-millimeter sheet metal fixture loading at human cycle times.

16-DoF Dexterous Humanoid Hands

Featuring integrated palm cameras and soft tactile sensor arrays on each fingertip, Figure 02 manipulates oily, flexible stamped components without slipping or dropping parts.

Onboard OpenAI Vision-Language Model

A customized low-latency vision-language model allows the robot to self-correct grasp errors in real-time, autonomously retrying failed pin insertions within 400 milliseconds.

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