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Humanoid robot companies, and which ones are actually deploying

By September 2026, six of the humanoid robot companies we track had a named industrial customer and a published operating number; the rest were in pilots, research programs or their own factories only.

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Every week brings a new video from one of the humanoid robot companies working on this. Far fewer of them have a named industrial customer and a number attached to it. This page sorts the field by that one distinction: which humanoid robot companies are selling or deploying to a real operator today, which have a named pilot with no number yet, and which are still selling to researchers, building for their own use only, or making a robot for the home. We sell no robots ourselves, so every maker is listed on the same terms, and every figure below is the maker's or the customer's own, dated.

Selling and deploying to an industrial customer today

These six have a named operator, a real site, and a number the company or the customer put out itself. The full record of each deployment, including automotive and logistics work not listed here, is on our deployment record.

Agility Robotics

Digit has been in commercial deployment for nearly three years and has logged more than 65,000 operating hours across customer sites in North America, including GXO, Schaeffler, Amazon and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (Agility, September 2026). At GXO's Flowery Branch site, Digit has moved a cumulative 100,000 totes at about 98 percent accuracy while on task, and at Schaeffler's plant in Cheraw, South Carolina, a Digit has tended a stamping press about eight hours a day since early 2025 (Agility; Futurism, March 2026).

Figure AI

Figure's Figure 02 ran an 11-month deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg: 10-hour shifts, Monday to Friday, more than 90,000 parts loaded and over 1,250 hours of runtime, which Figure says contributed to the production of 30,000 cars (Figure, November 2025). Figure 03 has since arrived in the same plant's Hall 52 for a sequencing task (Figure, June 2026).

Humanoid

HMND 01 was tested in Siemens' Erlangen factory, where Siemens and Humanoid say it met every target metric set for the test: 60 tote moves an hour, more than 8 hours of uptime, and a pick-and-place success rate above 90 percent (Humanoid and Siemens, April 2026). Humanoid has since signed a binding, phased deployment and supply agreement with Schaeffler, with first systems planned live in Germany before the end of 2026, and reports a proof of concept at Bosch's plant in Bühl (Humanoid, May 2026).

AgiBot

In a six-day livestreamed run on Longcheer Technology's tablet production line in Nanchang, AgiBot's G2 robots completed 64,828 tasks at a 99.99 percent success rate over more than 64 hours of continuous operation, handling 17,625 tablet units alongside human workers (AgiBot's own livestreamed figures, June 2026). A related platform, Nengzai No.1, jointly developed with SAIC-GM, works SAIC-GM's Buick Electra E7 battery line at a cumulative positioning accuracy of about ±0.1 mm and roughly two seconds a piece (SAIC-GM, March 2026).

Galbot

Galbot's S1 has, in CATL's own words, "formally entered" CATL's battery-pack production line for long-running autonomous work, carrying a 50-kilogram dual-arm payload with an eight-hour battery life and autonomous battery swap (CATL, June 2026). CATL gives no throughput figure or robot count.

UBTech

UBTech's Walker S Lite worked 21 consecutive days packing and securing cargo alongside people at Zeekr's 5G factory in Ningbo, a program UBTech dates to 2024 (UBTech, as reported by GDToday). UBTech has since opened a factory in Liuzhou reported at capacity for 10,000 humanoids a year, one robot rolling off the line every ten minutes (Xinhua, September 2026).

Named industrial pilots, no published number yet

These have a named operator and a plan, but neither the company nor the customer has put out a rate, a duration or a robot count.

Apptronik

Apptronik reports a pilot at Mercedes-Benz and tests at GXO, with Jabil as a manufacturing partner, and closed a Series A of more than $935 million in February 2026 (Apptronik). Neither company has published an operating figure for the pilot.

Hexagon

AEON is named for a summer-2026 pilot on battery assembly at BMW Group Plant Leipzig, BMW's first humanoid in European production, with two units named and no throughput published (BMW press release, 2026).

Boston Dynamics

All of Boston Dynamics' 2026 production Atlas units are committed to Hyundai's own Robotics Metaplant Application Center, which opened a training program for Atlas at Hyundai Metaplant America in Savannah, Georgia, in September 2026. Press reporting describes a plan for about 25,000 units, with deployment for parts sequencing planned by 2028 (Boston Dynamics, September 2026; a plan, as reported).

XPeng

XPeng opened IRON's production line in September 2026 for its own stores and facilities, with series production planned by the end of 2026 and first external deliveries planned for 2027 (XPeng, as reported, September 2026).

Persona AI

Persona AI is developing a shipyard humanoid with HD Hyundai's shipyards as a development partner, targeting a prototype by late 2026 and commercial deployment in shipbuilding in 2027 (a plan, as reported).

Not yet selling to an industrial floor

These make, or plan to make, a humanoid, but as of this reading neither the company nor a customer has named an industrial deployment.

Tesla

Optimus is for Tesla's own use only, with no external sales. As of January 2026, Elon Musk said no Optimus was doing useful work in Tesla's own factories yet (as reported).

1X Technologies

NEO is built for the home, not the factory. 1X's NEO Factory in Hayward, California, gives it capacity to produce up to 10,000 NEO a year, with its San Carlos site coming online later in 2026 (1X, April 2026).

Unitree Robotics

Unitree listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in August 2026. Its buyers are mostly research institutions, universities and data-collection programs rather than industrial operators (as reported).

NEURA Robotics

NEURA raised a Series C of up to $1.4 billion and reports an order book above $1 billion, but has no public 4NE1 deployment on record (NEURA; as reported, June 2026).

Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI is reported to now sell its physical AI software for other companies' robots rather than a whole humanoid of its own, after earlier work at automotive tier-1 suppliers (as reported).

PAL Robotics

One of Europe's oldest humanoid makers, PAL Robotics builds for research institutions and showed a new robot at ICRA 2026. It names no industrial customer.

None of this tells you which robot is right for a specific station on your floor. Start with what these machines can actually do today, whichever maker built them.

Then the number that decides most cases: what it costs to run per hour against the shift it replaces, not the figure on a slide.

And how long it actually works before it has to charge, since a robot that stops every ninety minutes needs a different shift plan than one that runs all day.

Operators we talk to want to know which of these companies could take a task on their floor this year, not which one raised the most money. We read every maker's own record so a Consultation can put a specific robot against a specific station, not a shortlist.

Questions this page answers

Which humanoid robot companies actually sell or deploy to industrial operators today?

By this reading, six do, each with a named site and a published number: Agility Robotics, Figure AI, Humanoid, AgiBot, Galbot and UBTech. The rest have a named pilot with no number yet, or no industrial customer at all.

Is Chinese-made humanoid hardware safe to buy?

Chinese makers publish some of the field's clearest operating numbers: AgiBot's Longcheer run, Galbot's line at CATL, UBTech's Zeekr and Liuzhou plants. Chinese hardware also carries its own procurement questions, among them reported Bluetooth security flaws and unpatched issues on at least one maker's robot, and EU and US rules that are not the same for every market (Humanoid.guide, September 2026). We read a model's own published record on security and support before recommending it, not the country on its label.

Legged or wheeled: does it matter?

Both are on this list and both are working. Wheeled platforms such as Humanoid's HMND 01 and Galbot's S1 move faster on a flat factory floor; legged platforms such as Agility's Digit and Figure's Figure 02 can cross thresholds, ramps and uneven ground a wheeled base cannot. Which one fits depends on the floor, not on which form looks more advanced.

Which humanoid makers have the most production capacity?

As the makers state it themselves: Agility's RoboFab in Salem, Oregon is designed for up to 10,000 Digit robots a year at full capacity; 1X's NEO Factory in Hayward gives the same figure for NEO, a home robot; and UBTech's Liuzhou plant is reported at capacity for 10,000 humanoids a year. AgiBot has stated a 2026 shipment target of 40,000 units, across all its models, not only G2 (Agility, September 2026; 1X, April 2026; Xinhua, September 2026; as reported).

Will a given humanoid maker still be here in five years?

What is checkable today is funding, orders and whether a company keeps publishing dated, named deployments rather than only demo footage. We track that weekly for every maker on this page, and update it the day a status changes.

Sources

  • Agility Robotics releases, September 2026 (Digit 4 deployment hours, GXO Flowery Branch, Digit 5 capacity, RoboFab).
  • Futurism, March 2026, quoting Agility Robotics (Schaeffler, Cheraw, South Carolina).
  • Figure AI releases, November 2025 and June 2026 (BMW Group Plant Spartanburg).
  • Humanoid and Siemens joint release, April 2026; Humanoid releases, May 2026 (Schaeffler, Bosch).
  • AgiBot's livestreamed figures, as reported by Interesting Engineering, June 2026 (Longcheer Technology, Nanchang).
  • SAIC-GM's own announcement, as reported by CnEVPost, March 2026 (Nengzai No.1, Buick Electra E7 line).
  • CATL's own release, as reported by CnEVPost, June 2026 (Galbot S1).
  • UBTech's account, as reported by GDToday (Zeekr, Ningbo); Xinhua, September 2026 (Liuzhou).
  • Apptronik releases, February and June 2026.
  • BMW Group press release T0455864EN, 2026 (Hexagon AEON, Plant Leipzig).
  • Boston Dynamics release and trade reporting, September 2026 (Hyundai Metaplant America, Savannah).
  • XPeng, as reported by CnEVPost and Electrek, September 2026.
  • The Robot Report and Interesting Engineering, as reported (Persona AI).
  • As reported (Musk on Optimus, January 2026).
  • 1X, "NEO Factory", April 2026.
  • CNBC, August 2026; TechNode, September 2026 (Unitree listing).
  • NEURA Robotics, series-c page, read September 2026; Bloomberg, June 2026.
  • RoboZaps and humanoidindex.org, read September 2026 (Sanctuary AI).
  • PAL Robotics news, ICRA 2026.
  • Humanoid.guide, September 2026 (Unitree G1 security reporting).

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