Re:BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germ...
by Underqualified on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:40AM
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I work in manufacturing and one of the driving forces here is the proposed cost of these humanoids. The target price range given by some companies is somewhere between 10k€ and 30k€, which would make them insanely competitive vs a human or a custom automation (which is easily over 100k€).
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Re:BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germ...
by moooo99 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:44AM
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> which would make them insanely competitive vs a human or a custom automation (which is easily over 100k€).
But the humanoids are not competing with custom automation.
Judging by some of the footage from BMW and the humanoid manufacturers themselves, they very frequently boil down to pick n place tasks, which is a field where lower to low cost automation solutions have been available for a while. Often times with significantly higher throughput as well.
Its been a while since I was dealing with shopfloor stuff and I am not an expert, but I do not see these humanoids anywhere near as compelling as many people pretend they are