AUDI AG

• Gernot D?llner - Chairman of the Board of Management - D?llner leads Audi, relevant to automotive automation and robotics-adjacent manufacturing.
• J?rgen Rittersberger - Board Member for Finance, Legal Affairs and IT - Rittersberger is senior board leadership at Audi.
• Rouven Mohr - Board Member for Technical Development - Mohr is technical leadership for Audi.

Events

• 2026-10-21 - Demonstration - Agile Robots starts mobile-humanoid sequencing proof of concept with Audi

  The robots combine dual-arm manipulation and humanoid reach with a mobile base. A DELMIA virtual twin on Dassault Systèmes’3 DEXPERIENCE platform uses NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to assess feasibility, timing, ergonomics and safety. Audi defines sequencing requirements for the trial; wider production use remains a future objective.

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• 2026-02-24 - Partnership - mimic and AUDI AG collaborate on AI-driven bimanual robotics for industrial insertion tasks

  mimic announces collaboration with AUDI AG focused on deploying AI-driven robotic systems in industrial production environments System uses an end-to-end pixel-to-action model running on a bi-manual platform to perform complex, long-horizon insertion tasks Demonstration targets contact-rich industrial assembly workflows that are difficult to automate with rule-based robotics

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• 2025-06-02 - Partnership - Audi and research partners launch a future picking-process program testing AI, sensor technology, and robotics

  Audi said it launched the Automotive Initiative 2025 together with Fraunhofer IAO and other research and technology partners to develop the picking process of the future. The program was set to test artificial intelligence, sensor technology, and robotics in a designated production area at Böllinger Höfe. This was a named, production-oriented research collaboration focused on bringing robotics and AI into readiness for automotive manufacturing workflows.

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• 2025-05-28 - Deployment - Audi expands weld-spatter AI quality control with a robotic removal stage in Neckarsulm production

  Audi said its AI-supported Weld Splatter Detection application was already live in series production in Neckarsulm and that a further expansion stage starting in summer 2025 would add a robotic arm to remove the detected splatter automatically. The company framed the system as improving production efficiency, occupational safety, and ergonomics in the body shop. This is a concrete factory robotics deployment step rather than a general statement about automation strategy.

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• 2024-12-17 - Deployment - Audi begins production at its new Changchun electric-vehicle plant with extensive automation and robotic logistics

  Audi began production at the new Audi FAW NEV Company plant in Changchun, describing more than 800 robots in the body shop plus driverless transport and automated warehousing across the site. The company said the plant was fully digitalized and highly automated, with visual-recognition quality control and integrated logistics and manufacturing processes. This qualifies as a robotics-relevant deployment event because the facility entered production with a named, large-scale installed automation and robotic logistics footprint.

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• 2024-12-17 - Partnership - Audi FAW NEV Company announces MoU with UBTECH Robotics and the Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics

  Audi said its new Changchun plant would explore the next step in humanoid-robot use for car production through a memorandum of understanding involving Audi FAW NEV Company, UBTECH Robotics, and the Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics. The announcement tied potential humanoid deployment directly to a live production site that had just entered operation for PPE-based electric models. This is the clearest surfaced robotics partnership event for Audi in the current pass because it goes beyond general automation language and names the counterparties and intended factory context.

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• 2023-10-14 - Product Launch - Auto Scanner enters finish-line surface inspection

  The new configuration moved Auto Scanner beyond body-shop inspection into the finishing process. It targeted paint defects, dents, dings and other surface imperfections during final inspection. The extension was designed to improve end-of-line product quality and inspection efficiency.

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• 2022-02-15 - Deployment - Anomaly detection completes Audi body-shop inspection automation

  The third version detected both predefined defect classes and anomalies with little or no historical image data. The anomaly capability targeted rare defects that previously depended on human visual inspection. IUNA says the deployment completed inspection automation in the Audi body shop and replaced the manual visual check.

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• 2020-09-01 - Partnership - IUNA becomes Audi development partner for R8 body inspection

  The cooperation focused on the Audi R8 body shop in Neckarsulm. IUNA and the automaker set out to extend Auto Scanner v1 from proof of concept to autonomous defect identification. The target inspection covered surface-geometry defects on the vehicle body.

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• 2020-03-15 - Product Launch - Auto Scanner v1 proves line-side surface-damage detection

  The first version was completed as part of the University of Stuttgart and Audi research project. It applied image analysis to detect surface damage directly on vehicles in production. The completed system provided the proof of concept for later fully autonomous inspection versions.

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• 2019-09-01 - Partnership - Stuttgart-Audi research project starts AI vehicle inspection

  The project targeted automated image analysis for vehicle quality assurance on the assembly line. Its goal was to establish proof of concept for autonomous defect inspection using AI. The university machine-learning group was initiated and led by future IUNA founder Jan Nabatian.

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Relationships

• Fraunhofer IAO

  Production Research Partner - Automotive Initiative 2025: future picking process with AI, sensors, and robotics at Böllinger Höfe (Audi media center).

• UBTECH Robotics

  Humanoid Robotics Exploration - MoU with Audi FAW NEV Company and Beijing humanoid center to explore humanoid use in Changchun EV production (Audi media center).

• Agile Robots

  Technology Partner - Agile Robots and Audi are conducting a mobile-humanoid parts-sequencing proof of concept at Audi’s Ingolstadt Production Lab.

• Dassault Systèmes

  Integrates With - Audi’s humanoid sequencing proof of concept is being modelled using DELMIA and3DEXPERIENCE virtual twins with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries.

• mimic

  Partner - mimic and Audi collaborate on AI-driven bimanual robotics for industrial insertion tasks.

• IUNA AI

  Automotive Inspection Development Partner - IUNA and Audi developed and deployed successive Auto Scanner versions for vehicle-body quality inspection.

Comparable profiles

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Shared workflows

• PitPro Automation

  workflow adjacency - Automotive Robotics Deployment

Context tags

• Automotive robotics deployment - Workflow - Audi deploys robotics in automotive manufacturing.
• Automotive factory robotics adoption - Capability - Audi tests and adopts humanoid robots in factory settings.
• Automotive adopter layer - Stack Layer - Audi is an automotive manufacturer adopting robotics rather than a builder.
• Factory automation cells - Customer Environment - Audi deploys robots in factory automation cells.
• Automotive factories - Customer Environment - Audi operates automotive factories and assembly plants.