Every week brings a new video of a humanoid robot doing something impressive. Far fewer of them are doing a real job, for a real customer, on a real floor. This page keeps track of the ones that are. For each one we note who is running it, where, which robot it is, what it does all day, and what the company itself has said about how it is going.
We do not remove entries when a pilot ends. A pilot that ran its course tells you as much as one that is still running. And because we do not sell robots, every make is listed on the same terms. If you know of a deployment we have missed, or something on this page has changed, tell us at inquiries@augustadynamics.com.
Automotive plants
BMW, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Figure 02 · announced January 2024
Figure's robots worked in the body shop, picking sheet-metal parts and placing them into fixtures for welding. The pilot ran on the live line from late 2024. Figure reported it as completed in 2025, after roughly a year. It remains the best-documented humanoid deployment in a car plant to date.
Mercedes-Benz, Berlin and Kecskemét
Apptronik Apollo · announced March 2024
Apollo robots collect parts, assemble them into kits and bring the kits to the assembly line, the kind of walking-and-carrying work that is hard to automate with fixed machinery. Mercedes expanded the pilot in 2025 and invested in Apptronik alongside it.
Zeekr, Ningbo, China
UBTech Walker S · announced February 2024
One of the first humanoids on a Chinese vehicle line. Walker S robots inspected quality and handled parts alongside the workers on the Zeekr 5G smart factory floor.
BYD, China
UBTech Walker S1 · announced October 2024
Parts handling and intralogistics in BYD plants. In 2025 UBTech reported the first orders for hundreds of units, which made this the largest announced humanoid rollout in manufacturing anywhere.
Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor, Liuzhou, China
UBTech Walker S · announced March 2024
Quality inspection and material handling on the vehicle line, as a pilot.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario
Agility Digit · announced February 2026
The first humanoid agreement announced by a Toyota manufacturing company. After a pilot, TMMC signed a commercial agreement to put Digit into manufacturing, supply chain and logistics work, described by Agility as the repetitive and physically taxing tasks found on an automotive production line. It runs on Agility's robots-as-a-service model rather than a purchase. Trade reporting, citing both companies, puts the pilot at three robots with seven more to follow, loading and unloading totes from an automated tugger; neither company has published those numbers itself.
BMW Group Plant Leipzig, Germany
Hexagon AEON · announced 2026
BMW's first humanoid in European production. Hexagon named two AEON units for a battery-assembly pilot at Plant Leipzig; no throughput figure has been published (BMW Group press release T0455864EN, 2026).
Logistics and manufacturing
GXO Logistics, Flowery Branch, Georgia
Agility Digit · announced June 2024
The first humanoid working under a robots-as-a-service contract in logistics, in a distribution center GXO runs for an apparel brand. Digit lifts totes off autonomous mobile robots and puts them on a conveyor, shift after shift. GXO pays for the robot's time rather than buying the robot.
Schaeffler, Germany (Agility Digit)
Agility Digit · announced October 2024
The bearings and automotive-parts maker announced a pilot in its plants, with the stated intention of deploying Digit across its sites over the coming decade, and invested in Agility.
Schaeffler, Germany (Humanoid HMND 01)
Humanoid · announced May 2026
A second humanoid agreement at Schaeffler, separate from the Agility Digit pilot above. Humanoid and Schaeffler signed a binding, phased deployment agreement, with first systems planned live in Germany before the end of 2026. Humanoid also reported a proof of concept at Bosch's plant in Bühl, Germany (Humanoid, May 2026). No throughput figure has been published.
Amazon, Sumner, Washington
Agility Digit · announced October 2023
Amazon tested Digit at one of its research and development sites, moving empty totes so that they could be reused. Amazon has not announced a wider rollout since.
Mercado Libre, San Antonio, Texas
Agility Digit · announced December 2025
The Latin American e-commerce operator signed a commercial agreement to deploy Digit at a Texas fulfillment center, moving material and totes through the aisles and workflows the building already has. Both companies have said they intend to extend it to Mercado Libre's warehouses in Latin America. No robot count and no rate have been published.
A US logistics company, unnamed
Figure 02 · shown in 2025
Figure published footage of its robots taking packages from a jumbled flow and placing them one by one on a sorter belt at a customer's site. The customer has not been named, which is why this entry stays vague.
What stands out
- Every job on this list is the same kind of job: pick something up here, put it down there. Fixtures, conveyors, racks, carts. Nobody has announced a humanoid assembling anything in production.
- Car plants and third-party logistics lead, because both have exactly that kind of work, a shortage of people willing to do it, and engineers on site who can host a pilot.
- The money is moving from buying robots to renting their time. The GXO deal is priced per hour worked, Toyota's Canadian plants took Digit on the same robots-as-a-service basis rather than buying, and most makers now offer something similar.
- A pilot that ends is not a failure. What matters to a buyer is whether the company publishes the rate and the uptime, and most still do not. Treat any deployment without numbers as a demo until proven otherwise.
What this means for you
If your operation has work like this, structured handling between fixed points, indoors, on more than one shift, then a first deployment can be scoped today, and this page is the reference we use in every conversation. If your work looks different, the next page explains where the limits are.
