BMW Group

BMW Group is a vehicle maker whose plant in Regensburg, Germany, has been in operation since 1986 and is one of more than 30 BMW Group production locations worldwide.¹ Regensburg builds around 1,400 BMW X1 and X2 vehicles every working day, with a new vehicle leaving the line every 57 seconds, and was named “Factory of the Year” 2024 in the category excellent large-series assembly, according to BMW’s own April 2025 release.¹ BMW describes its programme of digitalising its plants as the BMW iFACTORY.¹

BMW appears on MetaRoles for how it uses AI in the work of quality inspectors and line workers. In Regensburg’s paint shop, painted body surfaces are “checked fully automatically using AI methods”, the flagged features are then processed fully automatically, and plant employees check bodies if necessary, BMW said in a May 2023 video.² Trade press reporting BMW staff adds that cameras and stripe patterns find the flaws, four robots sand and polish them, and people finish the body edges, door joints and the fuel filler cap.³ BMW says its AIQX system is used for visual and acoustic quality inspection at Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina, that it has made AIQX a standard, and that it is assessing offering it to suppliers.⁴ A separate pilot at Regensburg, GenAI4Q, generates a tailored inspection list for each vehicle but does not itself look at the car.¹

On the robot side, BMW reported in August 2024 a “trial run lasting several weeks” of Figure AI’s Figure 02 humanoid at Spartanburg, and in June 2026 said the robot supported the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over ten months, loading sheet-metal parts in the body shop; it then announced a demonstration of Figure 03 on a logistics task, which our posts grade as a prototype until BMW reports live use.⁴⁵ All figures here are BMW’s own statements.