Google DeepMind says Apptronik’s Apollo 2 humanoid robots achieved a 96% success rate sorting automotive parts on active Mercedes-Benz production lines. The trials took place in Kecskemét, Hungary, and Sindelfingen, Germany, where the robots prepared components for vehicle assembly. The experiment used the Gemini Robotics 2.5 model, whose post-training reportedly limited the performance decline after its transfer to Mercedes. However, DeepMind did not disclose the number of trials, cycle times, uptime, operating costs or frequency of human interventions, leaving their usefulness over a full shift uncertain. The company nevertheless described kitting, meaning the sorting and sequencing of parts for each vehicle, as an autonomous task.
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