The European Robotics Forum 2025 is being hosted for the first time in Germany, in Stuttgart, a key center of the automotive industry. On the first day, part of the discussion focused on the increasing role of robotics in manufacturing. Mercedes-Benz’s COO delivered a keynote on the company’s robotic strategy, highlighting its use of 30,000 robots and the recent deployment of humanoid robots in its factories. In this video, Marco van der Hoeven, Editor-in-Chief of Rocking Robots, discusses the inevitable rise of humanoids in industry.