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Products, prototypes, pilots, and deployments—tracked by what the machines can actually do.
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BMW has introduced Hexagon’s wheeled humanoid into production work in Leipzig after staged testing. The deployment is meaningful, but BMW has not disclosed the robot’s throughput, autonomy or intervention rate.
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Agility Robotics has redesigned Digit around close human proximity and larger industrial workflows. The launch is substantial, but its strongest safety, demand and productivity claims remain partly prospective.
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Hexagon and Schaeffler have moved AEON into a dedicated factory-training environment, but the announced 1,000-unit rollout remains a seven-year plan without published validation results.
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MUSE has started its first US store deployment of Armo One, giving the retail robot a real workplace but revealing little about its daily performance or economics.
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Hoboken has authorized a tightly bounded sidewalk-delivery trial with Coco Robotics and Avride, but the program’s value will depend on what the city measures after operations begin.
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Figure 03 combines tactile hands, whole-body control, a growing internal fleet, and a BMW logistics pilot, but public evidence still falls short of broad commercial availability.
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Digit has crossed from pilot demonstrations into paid warehouse work, but today’s v4 remains a guarded, task-specific system while a more capable v5 approaches release.
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Bedrock Robotics says its excavators are working without cab operators on three commercial sites, but the announcement omits the operating data contractors need to judge autonomy.
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NEO is taking paid reservations and entering production, but early household usefulness still depends on basic autonomy, scheduled human experts, and unverified delivery promises.
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Atlas now has a production specification, a live product demonstration, and factory pilots, but its first industrial fleets remain tightly controlled and its commercial economics are undisclosed.
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Tesla is building Optimus toward internal data collection and future mass production, but the current robot remains a prototype with limited public specifications and no customer availability.
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XPENG has shown a striking humanoid and funded its path to production, but public evidence still stops well short of sustained autonomous work.
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Apollo 2 is already collecting training data in bipedal and wheeled forms, but Apptronik describes it as a pilot platform feeding a different commercial generation.
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Tiangong Ultra’s sprint showed a striking increase in controlled running speed, while the finish exposed how narrowly a track record describes useful robot mobility.
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Diligent Robotics has begun shipping its second-generation hospital courier, but the launch provides specifications and fleet history rather than measured Moxi 2.0 performance.
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Unitree G1 makes humanoid hardware unusually accessible, but its purchasable base model, developer-focused EDU editions, and viral demonstrations represent very different levels of capability.