# BMW Group — company

Canonical ID: `ac95caa3-7e03-4dfc-8755-8ee3b632c864`

## Key facts

- **Scale:** 30+ production sites in 15 countries; produces BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce brands
- **2025 production:** millions of vehicles annually across the group
- **First humanoid deployment:** January 2024 partnership announcement, August 2024 first trial, full deployment 2025, Figure 02 at Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina
- **Spartanburg pilot results (Nov 2025 completion):** 11 months, 1,250 operating hours, 30,000+ BMW X3 supported, 90,000+ sheet-metal parts loaded, 84-second cycle time, 99+% placement accuracy
- **Second humanoid deployment:** December 2025 initial test, April 2026 second test, summer 2026 full pilot, AEON (Hexagon Robotics) at Plant Leipzig, Germany; high-voltage battery assembly + component manufacturing
- **Institutional framework:** Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production (Munich)
- **Leadership signal:** Milan Nedeljković, humanoid-program leader, became Group CEO May 14, 2026
- **Strategic intent:** Multi-vendor humanoid evaluation; scaling across global production network as technology matures
- **Long-time technology partner for Leipzig pilot:** Hexagon (sensor technology, software, now Hexagon Robotics)

- **Slug:** bmw
- **Status:** ETR: BMW (Frankfurt Stock Exchange)
- **Founded:** 1916
- **HQ:** Munich, Germany

## Models

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## Sources (8)

1. **BMW Group press — humanoid robots in Germany (Plant Leipzig)** · https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0455864EN/bmw-group-to-deploy-humanoid-robots-in-production-in-germany-for-the-first-time?language=en
2. **BMW Group — humanoid robot in Leipzig** · https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/news/general/2026/humanoid-robot-in-leipzig.html
3. **Figure AI — Production at BMW** · https://www.figure.ai/news/production-at-bmw
4. **Assembly Magazine — Spartanburg pilot completion coverage** · https://www.assemblymag.com/
5. **Repairer Driven News — Spartanburg pilot completion coverage** · https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/
6. **IIoT World — Physical AI Deployment ROI: BMW's 30,000-car proof** · https://www.iiot-world.com/artificial-intelligence-ml/robotics/physical-ai-deployment-roi-humanoid-robots/
7. **The Next Web — BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany** · https://thenextweb.com/
8. **BMW Group 2026 Annual General Meeting materials** · https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/investor-relations.html

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