# Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg Plant — deployment

Canonical ID: `7588a752-c5e9-4bf2-940b-9b9de3f70129`

The world's first deployment of humanoid robots at a BMW plant, and the first publicly documented production-scale humanoid deployment in automotive manufacturing. Two Figure 02 robots worked in the body shop at BMW Manufacturing's Plant Spartanburg (South Carolina), running 10-hour shifts Monday through Friday.

The task: sheet-metal pick-and-place. The robots lifted sheet-metal parts from bins and racks and placed them onto welding fixtures to a 5-millimeter tolerance, after which traditional six-axis robotic arms performed the welding. The work is repetitive, physically demanding, and exacting in both speed and precision.

Key results (reported by Figure AI and BMW): an 11-month deployment totaling roughly 1,250 operating hours; more than 90,000 parts loaded; contribution to the production of over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles; approximately 1.2 million steps taken (around 200 miles walked inside the facility); placement accuracy above 99%; and an 84-second cycle time (37 seconds for the load).

Timeline: announced January 2024; a weeks-long trial ran in August 2024; robots were on-site within about six months; full active-line deployment was reached by month 10. The pilot was completed and Figure 02 was retired in November 2025, with the units returning to Figure HQ as part of a fleet-wide F.02 retirement. Reliability learnings — especially in the forearm and wrist electronics and thermal management — were carried into the Figure 03 redesign. Figure operates on a Robots-as-a-Service model (approximately $1,000 per robot per month). Status: ended (successful pilot completion, not a failure).

## Key facts

- **Deployment period:** 11 months (2025, ended Nov 2025)
- **Parts handled:** 90,000+ sheet-metal parts
- **Vehicles produced:** 30,000+ BMW X3
- **Operating hours:** ~1,250
- **Distance walked:** ~1.2M steps (~200 miles)
- **Placement accuracy:** >99%
- **Cycle time:** 84 seconds (37s load)
- **Tolerance:** 5 mm
- **Task:** Sheet-metal pick-and-place to welding fixtures
- **Shift pattern:** 10-hour shifts, Mon-Fri
- **Commercial model:** Robots-as-a-Service (~$1,000/robot/mo)

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 7 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-05-26_

- **Slug:** figure-02-bmw-spartanburg
- **Status:** ended
- **Model:** [Figure 02](/models/figure-02.md) — id `f5599108-6c06-4af4-a669-378b87860daf`
- **Company:** [Figure AI](/companies/figure-ai.md) — id `7107d624-dbc3-4d73-9103-1138ebf6f754`
- **Location:** [BMW Spartanburg Plant](/locations/bmw-spartanburg.md) — id `4d5475ee-16c5-4ee7-beb2-dbc0f9fa0af0`
- **First seen:** 2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (7)

1. **Figure AI — F.02 contributed to production of 30,000 cars at BMW (official results)** · https://www.figure.ai/news/production-at-bmw · 2025-11-19
2. **Repairer Driven News — 11-month project complete, metrics, F.02 retirement** · https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2025/11/25/humanoid-robots-complete-11-month-project-at-bmw-plant/ · 2025-11-25
3. **Assembly Magazine — task detail, cycle time, accuracy goals** · https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/99678-humanoid-robots-complete-trial-project-at-bmw-assembly-plant · 2025-11-25
4. **Interesting Engineering — retirement, 200 miles, 84s cycle, 5mm tolerance** · https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/figure-humanoid-robots-retires-bmw · 2025-11-21
5. **BMW Group — Spartanburg results (90,000 components, 1.2M steps, 1,250 hrs)** · 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 · 2026-02-27
6. **Sacra — deployment summary + RaaS pricing context** · https://sacra.com/c/figure-ai/ · 2025-11-01
7. **Automotive Manufacturing Solutions — body shop choice, exec quotes** · https://www.automotivemanufacturingsolutions.com/smart-factory/bmw-brings-humanoid-robots-to-european-production/2616584 · 2026-03-11

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