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BMW says Figure 03 will take on a logistics task at its Spartanburg plant, sorting unsorted components into the order needed for assembly. The project follows a Figure 02 pilot in the plant’s body shop.
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BMW says its Automated Driving In-Plant system has completed one million driverless vehicle movements across its production network. The system uses LiDAR sensors installed in plant infrastructure, cloud technology and motion-planning software to move vehicles in defined factory and logistics areas.
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GM has outlined an upcoming EV platform combining lithium manganese-rich batteries, revised electric drive units and a new computing architecture. The company says the changes are intended to improve range per unit of energy and simplify vehicle development and manufacturing.
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BMW Group has begun series production of its Gen6 high-voltage batteries in Shenyang, China, the third site in its global production network for the battery generation. The company says the cylindrical cells offer more than 20% higher energy density, while charging speed and range increase by up to 30% compared with the previous cell generation.
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Amprius says a US Department of War grant of up to $75 million will support converting an existing US EV battery line to make cells for military drones. The company targets annual capacity of 12 million cells by early 2028.
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Figure says it retired most of its F.02 robot fleet by having robots trained in simulation jump into molten steel at a foundry in Finland. The company plans to turn the resulting metal into a limited series of commemorative artifacts.
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BMW Group has marked the start of construction on a roughly two-kilometre hydrogen pipeline linking its Leipzig plant to the hydrogen grid. The connection is scheduled to be commissioned in the first half of 2028 and would let the plant use hydrogen more extensively in its paint shop.
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Tesla says it has launched high-volume production of its Semi at a factory designed to produce 50,000 trucks a year. The company also describes changes to the truck’s battery, drivetrain, steering and thermal systems.
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Figure says its Figure 03 humanoid robot is being demonstrated at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, combining parts sequencing, manipulation, repositioning and cart pulling under Helix 02 control.
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Figure says its BotQ facility has delivered more than 350 Figure 03 humanoid robots and reported a demonstration of a perception-conditioned controller traversing real stairs after simulation training.
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Samsung Electronics has announced a partnership with Mistral AI to develop on-premises AI systems for chip design, defect detection, equipment optimisation and semiconductor manufacturing.
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Hyundai Motor Group used its CES 2026 exhibition to present humanoid, quadruped, logistics, mobility and workplace-assistance robots, while outlining planned and current deployments.
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Hyundai Motor Group used its CES 2026 exhibition to demonstrate Boston Dynamics robots, MobED mobility platforms, autonomous charging systems, industrial wearables and factory logistics technologies.
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Samsung says FläktGroup, a Samsung company, has begun operating an approximately 13,826-square-metre Pune facility that will manufacture HVAC equipment for AI data centres and other critical infrastructure.