Deployment record

Who is actually running humanoid robots, and where

By September 2026, humanoid robots were working or being tested on production lines and in distribution centers in the United States, Europe and China, almost always moving parts, totes and boxes from one fixed point to another.

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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 info@augustadynamics.com.

Automotive plants

BMW, Spartanburg, South Carolina

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

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

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

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

Quality inspection and material handling on the vehicle line, as a pilot.

Logistics and manufacturing

GXO Logistics, Flowery Branch, Georgia

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

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.

Amazon, Sumner, Washington

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.

A US logistics company, unnamed

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, 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.

Questions this page answers

Are humanoid robots already used in factories?

Yes. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Zeekr, BYD and Dongfeng have all run humanoids on production lines, mostly moving parts and inspecting quality rather than assembling.

Which logistics companies use humanoid robots?

GXO Logistics runs Agility's Digit robots at a distribution center in Georgia under a pay-per-hour contract. Amazon has tested them at a research site. Figure has shown its robots sorting parcels for an unnamed US logistics customer.

How often is this page updated?

We check every entry against the original announcements once a month and print the date of the last review at the top.

Sources

  • Figure AI and BMW Group announcements, January 2024, and Figure's updates on the Spartanburg deployment through 2025.
  • GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics announcement, June 2024.
  • Mercedes-Benz and Apptronik announcements, March 2024 and 2025.
  • Amazon announcement of the Digit test, October 2023.
  • Schaeffler and Agility Robotics announcement, October 2024.
  • UBTech announcements on Zeekr, Dongfeng Liuzhou and BYD, 2024 to 2025.

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