Siemens presents a vision of the autonomous factory where configuring a product starts with a simple natural-language chat. Instead of clicking through rigid configurators, an operator just tells a chatbot which variants or colors they want, and the system turns that request into an order that is automatically dispatched to a robotic cell for commissioning and assembly. This front end ties conversational AI directly to physical production, closing the loop between product configuration and execution on the shop floor https://www.siemens.com/
—
HDMI® Technology is the foundation for the worldwide ecosystem of HDMI-connected devices; integrated with displays, set-top boxes, laptops, audio video receivers and other product types. Because of this global usage, manufacturers, resellers, integrators and consumers must be assured that their HDMI® products work seamlessly together and deliver the best possible performance by sourcing products from licensed HDMI Adopters or authorized resellers. For HDMI Cables, consumers can look for the official HDMI® Cable Certification Labels on packaging. Innovation continues with the latest HDMI 2.2 Specification that supports higher 96Gbps bandwidth and next-gen HDMI Fixed Rate Link technology to provide optimal audio and video for a wide range of device applications. Higher resolutions and refresh rates are supported, including up to 12K@120 and 16K@60. Additionally, more high-quality options are supported, including uncompressed full chroma formats such as 8K@60/4:4:4 and 4K@240/4:4:4 at 10-bit and 12-bit color.
—
In the demo, the real shift is not just the robot, but the behavior-based control architecture behind it. Each resource in the line — the commissioning cell, the assembly robot, the mobile robot — runs its own local behavior and reacts to events, rather than following a single monolithic production plan. Cells simply signal when they are ready, exchange status, and hand over parts. Because orchestration is decentralized and event-driven, you can add another assembly robot without rewriting a global production sequence, which increases robustness and scalability.
The robot in this setup does not rely on ad-hoc vision for every move, but on a model-based description of the workcell: the system knows exactly which parts are where, and uses that digital model to compute collision-free trajectories and precise pick-and-place motions. On the large screen, you see mobile robots and future humanoid robots envisaged as peers in the same architecture. Siemens’ goal is not to manufacture humanoids, but to integrate any vendor’s robots — cobots, AMRs, AGVs, or humanoids — through a common automation and fleet-management layer.
Economically, behavior-based autonomous cells aim to reduce both engineering effort and error-handling complexity. Instead of designing a rigid line where a large portion of logic is dedicated to exceptions, each agent simply operates when its preconditions are met and waits when they are not, which simplifies commissioning and reconfiguration. Combined with generative-AI copilots for engineering and operations, digital twins of cells and robots, and adaptive production concepts, this approach targets shorter changeover times, higher utilization, and more flexible variant handling across product families.
Filmed at the Siemens booth during SPS 2025 in Nuremberg, this walkthrough connects the concrete demo on the stand with Siemens’ broader Autonomous Factory Lab work on industrial AI, autonomous mobile robots, and human-robot collaboration. It illustrates how conversational configuration, model-based motion planning, and decentralized, agent-like behaviors could converge into factories where humans, AMRs, and future humanoid robots share the same resilient, software-defined automation environment.
I’m publishing about 90+ videos from Embedded World North America 2025, I upload about 4 videos per day at 5AM/11AM/5PM/11PM CET/EST. Join https://www.youtube.com/charbax/join for Early Access to all 90 videos (once they’re all queued in next few days) Check out all my Embedded World North America videos in my Embedded World playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7xXqJFxvYvjgUpdNMBkGzEWU6YVxR8Ga
This video was filmed using the DJI Pocket 3 ($669 at https://amzn.to/4aMpKIC using the dual wireless DJI Mic 2 microphones with the DJI lapel microphone https://amzn.to/3XIj3l8 ), watch all my DJI Pocket 3 videos here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7xXqJFxvYvhDlWIAxm_pR9dp7ArSkhKK
Click the “Super Thanks” button below the video to send a highlighted comment under the video! Brands I film are welcome to support my work in this way 😁
Check out my video with Daylight Computer about their revolutionary Sunlight Readable Transflective LCD Display for Healthy Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98RuxkFDYY



