Audi sets humanoids on the logistics job robots have long fumbled

Before a car reaches final assembly, someone has to fetch its parts and line them up in the order the line will need them, and at Audi that happens around a million times a day. On 21 October, at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in Berlin, Audi, the Munich robot maker Agile Robots, Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA announced a proof of concept to automate that sequencing at Audi’s Ingolstadt plant with mobile humanoids. In the Production Lab, Audi’s space for trying out future production and logistics technology, the robots pick components from material containers and set them out in sequence for final assembly of Audi’s premium models.

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