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Sixty Picks an Hour, and the 88 Percent That Never Graduate
Siemens' Erlangen humanoid moved sixty totes an hour at better than 90% accuracy — and 88% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production. The marquee deployments are three dozen Tier-1 buyers reading from one address book; everyone else is watching pilots die in the gap between a vendor demo and a system that still runs on a Tuesday in August.
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Erlangen, Spartanburg, and the Quiet Half of Industrial AI
The cognitive layer of industrial AI — copilots, agentic optimisation, the operating-system metaphor — is real and mostly in pilot. The physical layer — vision, manipulation, motion — is the part actually booking cycle time on the factory floor. That asymmetry is the story.
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