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BMW ramps up humanoid robotics software at Landshut 🚀
Jabil's VP Robert Gutridge reveals that the humanoid robotics industry's biggest challenge is no longer AI capabilities but industrialization and scaling. The company is actively working with Apptronik to move the Apollo humanoid robot from prototype to volume production, applying manufacturing expertise to address supply chain maturity, design for manufacturability, and repeatable quality processes. The interview emphasizes that success will be determined by who can industrialize, not just who builds impressive demos.
DeepMind launches its most advanced embodied reasoning model to date, featuring a specialized "agentic vision" system for industrial inspections and enhanced multi-view success detection.