MIMIC and BMW train video-action model hitting up to 100% success on industrial tasks
pess_r · x · 2026-11-12
MIMIC Robotics announced a joint research project with BMW Group on video-action models for industrial manipulation.
- FLUX-mimic was trained on automotive tasks using production parts and fixtures: assembly, insertion, kitting, and cable routing
- On MIMIC's dexterous robot platform it reached success rates of up to 100%, consistently outperforming other models with 4x less training data
- The team notes that collecting task-specific data is the biggest cost of deploying learned policies in factories, which is why they work directly with industrial partners on real production data from day one
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