{"id":180921,"date":"2024-01-19T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/bmw-to-deploy-figures-humanoid-robots-challenging-teslas-optimus-bot"},"modified":"2024-01-19T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:30:56","slug":"bmw-to-deploy-figures-humanoid-robots-challenging-teslas-optimus-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/bmw-to-deploy-figures-humanoid-robots-challenging-teslas-optimus-bot","title":{"rendered":"BMW to deploy Figure\u2019s humanoid robots challenging Tesla\u2019s Optimus bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bmw-to-deploy-figures-humanoid-robots-challenging-teslas-optimus-bot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BMW Manufacturing has announced a new partnership with Figure, a robotics startup that specializes in <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/figure-101-ai-powered-humanoid-robot\" title=\"humanoid robots\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">humanoid robots<\/a>. The partnership will see Figure\u2019s robots being deployed in BMW\u2019s facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the largest automotive exporter in the US.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first commercial deal that Figure has signed since it was founded in 2022. The company did not reveal how many robots BMW will be using but said that the partnership will begin with small quantities and scale up if the robots meet the performance expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW Manufacturing has announced a new partnership with Figure, a robotics startup that specializes in humanoid robots. The partnership will see Figure\u2019s robots being deployed in BMW\u2019s facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the largest automotive exporter in the US. This is the first commercial deal that Figure has signed since it was founded in 2022. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}