Following a successful trial where its predecessor helped roll out upwards of 30,000 BMW X3s, the next-generation Figure 03 humanoid has officially clocked in at BMW’s Spartanburg factory. Its latest brief is in logistics, sorting a relentless stream of components—a job so mind-numbingly dull it would be a human’s nightmare, but for a robot, it’s simply business as usual. The era of ‘Physical AI’ on the assembly line has arrived, and it looks suspiciously like a machine taking over the grunt work we’d all happily avoid.
