BMW Group has founded a subsidiary called Idealworks to supply autonomous robots to the logistics sector, including companies outside of the automotive industry. The subsidiary, which is based in Munich, Germany, and currently has a team of 30, takes its name from the acronym for industry-driven engineering for autonomous logistics (Ideal).
Idealworks will build on the success of BMW’s Smart Transport Robot (STR), which was first developed in 2015 with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute and is now being used both at BMW plants and in other locations. There are currently more than 130 of the robots supporting series production across BMW’s production facilities, including for seat installation at BMW’s Munich plant.
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