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At a BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, two humanoid robots from startup Figure AI worked real 10-hour shifts on an active assembly line for 11 months, helping build over 30,000 vehicles with more than 99% placement accuracy.
These humanoid robots from startup Figure AI helped assemble the BMW X3 at the Spartanburg, South Carolina plant, working real shifts on an active production line for nearly a year. Achieving over 99% placement accuracy while helping build tens of thousands of vehicles shows these machines performed reliably enough to work safely alongside human staff on a genuine factory floor.
The BMW 3 Series and BMW i4 are real models built elsewhere in BMW's lineup, but the specific vehicle this humanoid robot program helped build on that production line was the X3, making the other two options mismatches for this particular project.
This effort was part of a wider 2026 trend of automakers testing humanoid robots on real assembly lines, and BMW later expanded the idea to Europe with a wheeled humanoid at its Leipzig plant.
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