According to AI News on X (@AINewsOfficial_), BMW has begun deploying the AEON humanoid robot from Hexagon Robotics to automate multiple plant tasks, signaling near-term factory pilots for material handling and inspection; as reported by AI News, researchers introduced OmniXtreme, a unified control policy designed to handle extreme robotic movements across varied embodiments, addressing generalization limits in locomotion and manipulation; and according to AI News, TacRefineNet demonstrated last‑mile dexterous grasping using only tactile sensing, reducing reliance on cameras in cluttered or occluded settings. For manufacturers, the AEON deployment points to labor rebalancing and uptime gains in final assembly and intralogistics; OmniXtreme suggests a path to fleet-wide policy reuse that can cut control stack integration costs; and TacRefineNet enables high-precision bin picking and small-parts assembly where vision fails. Source: AI News on X; linked video: YouTube (uYw9M86kfRg).