Following trials with the Technical University of Munich, BMW is rolling out its Robot in the Cloud project to manage autonomous logistics at the Landshut component plant in Germany
Cameras are now integrated into the self-driving forklift trucks, simultaneously calculating driving movements and determining coordinates with millimetre precision.
After that, 5G technology uploads the calculations to a high-performance data cloud. The new 5G wireless technology allows large data volumes to be transferred within a very short time, enabling real-time connectivity between machinery and equipment. It also allows billions of machines to be connected and transmit data in near real time, forming an artificial ecosystem designed to streamline output.
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