Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Industrial

Humanoid Parts Handling in Automotive Manufacturing

Humanoid robots running Helix load parts on an automotive production line (BMW Spartanburg).

robot policy
2named models
43candidates
1deployments
0in Indonesia

Named Models

Figure AIHelix 02Figure AIReleasedJan 2026Runs onnot in the notesClassrobot policyHelix with whole-body control on Figure 03; Figure 02 loaded 90,000+ parts at BMW Spartanburg over 11 months.Commercial use: proprietary terms; Jakarta hosting: unknown; Indonesian support: not statedFigure AIHelixFigure AIReleasedFeb 2025Runs onnot in the notesClassrobot policyFigure AI VLA for its own robots, trained on about 500 h of teleoperation data.Commercial use: proprietary terms; Jakarta hosting: unknown; Indonesian support: not stated
Where this comes from
Models the research names for this use case. Research, with sources on each model record.

Who Runs It

production, 1
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW Group)BMW (Spartanburg plant)Country: USAFigure 02 and Figure 03 humanoids with HelixVendor: Figure AIproductionDate30 Jun 2026Figure 02 loaded 90,000+ parts over 11 months; Figure 03 at Hall 52 from 30 Jun 2026Evidence: independent reportConfidence: highSource: aiwiki.ai
Where this comes from
Documented uses by named organisations. The evidence column says who made the claim.

Candidate Models

LIBERO: OpenVLA-OFT paper

A general benchmark for this model class, not a test on this use case. Simulated robot manipulation task suites; average success rate. %. Higher is better.

Stanford UniversityOpenVLA-OFTStanford University vendor-reported97.1Stanford UniversityOpenVLAStanford University, UC Berkeley, Toyota Research Institute (TRI) vendor-reported76.5
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Black Forest LabsFLUX.3 Action BaseBlack Forest Labs, robot policyReleasedSep 2026open weightslast 18 monthsFigure AIHelix 2.5Figure AI, robot policyReleasedSep 2026has scoreslast 18 monthsGoogle DeepMindGemini Robotics 2 VLAGoogle DeepMind, robot policyReleasedJul 2026has scoreslast 18 monthsOpenBMB (Tsinghua NLP Lab and ModelBest)MiniCPM RobotManip and RobotTrackOpenBMB (Tsinghua NLP Lab and ModelBest), robot policyReleasedJul 2026open weightslast 18 monthsAgiBot (Zhiyuan)GO-2AgiBot (Zhiyuan), robot policyReleasedApr 2026has scoreslast 18 monthsNVIDIANitroGenNVIDIA, robot policyReleasedJan 2026open weightslast 18 monthsNVIDIAGR00T N1.6NVIDIA, robot policyReleasedJan 2026open weightslast 18 monthsNVIDIAGEAR-SONICNVIDIA, robot policyReleasedNov 2025open weightslast 18 monthsTsinghua UniversityX-VLATsinghua University, Shanghai AI Lab, robot policyReleasedOct 2025open weightslast 18 monthsBAAIRoboBrain 2.0BAAI, robot policyReleasedJul 2025open weightslast 18 months

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Where this comes from
Derived, not researched: models in the directory whose class matches a class this use case uses, excluding family records and models shut down or deprecated. Ranked by how many fit facts they meet, then by release date. Each fit fact is read from the model record.

Sources

  1. aiwiki.ai/wiki/helix_vla https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/helix_vla

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Humanoid Parts Handling in Automotive Manufacturing", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/industrial-humanoid-parts-handling/, records of October 2026.