A collection of Figure 3 autonomous robots at their docking stations inside BMW's Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina.A collection of Figure 3 autonomous robots at their docking stations inside BMW's Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina.BMW builds 1500 cars per day and employs 11000 workers at its factory in Spartanburg, SC. But in the age of AI that might be about to change.We recently had a chance to see 3rd gen autonomous AI robots from a company called Figure in action at the plant.BMW insists it won't replace workers with robots, but representatives did say these humanoids would ideally be used to do repetitive and strenuous jobs.AdvertisementAdvertisementRecently General Motors took heat from its union for adding 50 robots to its Factory Zero plant in Michigan after laying off more than 1,000 workers.The current struggle is the limited data they have to train with: while LLMs have scraped the vastness of the internet to build their models ( arguably illegally), Figure has to study humans wearing sensors operating in a factory.So what do you think the future of manufacturing looks like? Amazing and innovative? Or a little creepy?