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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Apptronik says that Mercedes is exploring use cases like having Apollo inspect and deliver components to human production line workers.
Neither company has disclosed any figures for the agreement or how many Apollo robots are being trialed.
The company says its approach instead “centers on automating some physically demanding, repetitive and dull tasks for which it is increasingly hard to find reliable workers.”
The Financial Times reports that Mercedes has started trialing an undisclosed number of Apollo robots at a factory in Hungary.
“This is a new frontier and we want to understand the potential both for robotics and automotive manufacturing to fill labor gaps in areas such as low skill, repetitive and physically demanding work and to free up our highly skilled team members on the line to build the world’s most desirable cars,” said Mercedes’ production chief Jörg Burzer.
Apollo stands at five feet, eight inches tall, with Apptronik claiming the robot can lift objects up to 55 pounds.
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