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Humanoid robots enter live production at Siemens and BMW factories during Hannover Messe 2026

2026-04-21 13:07

At Hannover Messe 2026 (April 20–24), NVIDIA and partners announced the first confirmed humanoid robot deployments inside operating German factories: Humanoid's HMND 01 (on NVIDIA Jetson Thor) has completed autonomous logistics runs at Siemens' Erlangen electronics plant, and Hexagon Robotics' AEON is performing assembly at BMW's Leipzig facility. Invisible AI launched a Vision Execution System — already running in Toyota plants — that uses agents to capture and analyze every production cycle in real time. Deutsche Telekom's Industrial AI Cloud, billed as one of Europe's largest AI factories, is providing the sovereign infrastructure backbone for the deployments, with Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, and Siemens integrating NVIDIA Omniverse and CUDA-X across their engineering platforms.

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