The Machines Behind the BMW Assembly Line Get a Send-Off Worthy of the Silver Screen

Before they were retired, these industrial robots spent their working lives helping to build BMWs. When a robotics startup had to take the old units out of service and make sure nothing of them survived, it skipped the quiet scrapyard and staged an ending usually seen only at the cinema: the robots were sent into a bath of liquid steel. Anyone who owns a BMW has driven something that machines like these helped assemble, which is reason enough to note how they were retired.

With reporting from The Drive.