Overview
- BMW confirmed its first European deployment by introducing Hexagon’s AEON humanoid at the Leipzig factory after initial tests in December 2025.
- The program will expand with a further deployment from April 2026, leading into a multi‑month pilot in summer 2026 centered on high‑voltage battery assembly and component work.
- AEON’s multifunctional grippers, scanning systems and wheeled mobility will be evaluated for repetitive, ergonomically demanding tasks that supplement human workers.
- Experience from BMW’s 2025 Spartanburg trial with Figure AI’s Figure 02 included support for more than 30,000 X3 vehicles and handling over 90,000 parts across roughly 1,250 operating hours.
- BMW created a Center of Competence for Physical AI and is using a unified data platform and simulation‑first development (including NVIDIA Isaac tools and Jetson Orin edge compute, per Hexagon) to integrate and scale successful use cases.