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A dated, sourced timeline of humanoid robot shipments, factory and warehouse deployments, launches and published prices since 2024. Demos, targets and company claims are labeled as such.
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This tracker lists dated milestones in putting humanoid robots to work. A humanoid robot is a machine with a roughly human body plan. The tracker covers shipments, factory and warehouse deployments, commercial launches and published prices since January 2024. It is current as of October 8, 2026.
Each entry needs a source that confirms both the date and the fact. The preferred source is the maker's own announcement, a stock exchange filing or the customer's statement. Otherwise the source is established news or trade press. Where the source is a news report, the entry carries the report's date. Entries say whether they describe a signed contract, a pilot (a limited trial), a working deployment or a launch. Demos and targets appear only where they bear on a deployment claim, and are labeled. Numbers that come only from a company are described as its claim. Future targets are marked scheduled.
Counts are not comparable across makers. UBTech's humanoid category includes a wheeled model. Research firms also disagree on totals. IDC, as cited by AgiBot, put first-half 2026 shipments near 25,000. Counterpoint, cited by TechCrunch, put them at 22,000.
Funding rounds, stock listings, trade restrictions, research videos and four-legged robots are left out. Two terms recur. Robots-as-a-service means a customer pays a recurring fee for a robot instead of buying it. Teleoperation means a person controls the robot remotely.
Targets set by the organizations named. Dates like these often move.
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Agility Robotics said on September 15, 2026 that it expects Digit 5 early access to begin in the first half of 2027. It said it expects general availability by the end of 2027. It said it had more than $300 million in multi-year Digit 5 orders as of May 2026, subject to contractual milestones.
Source: Agility Unveils Digit 5 Humanoid Robot Built for Cooperatively Safe Work at Scale, Agility Robotics
Agility's investor day presentation says its committed Digit 5 orders relate to 1,000 robots on a three-year robots-as-a-service contract. It values them at more than $300 million as of May 2026. It says that value depends on contractual milestones and is not current revenue.
Source: Agility Analyst & Investor Day Presentation 2026, Agility Robotics
As of October 6, 2026, Unitree's own online store listed the R1 humanoid from $4,900, the G1 from $13,500 and the H2 at $29,900. These are the company's list prices in US dollars, not a record of sales or deliveries.
AgiBot, citing IDC, said it shipped more than 8,600 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026. It said that was about 35% of a global total near 25,000. AgiBot also said its cumulative output reached 20,000 robots in September 2026. The figures come from AgiBot's summary, not from the IDC report itself.
Source: IDC Data Shows AGIBOT Led Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in H1 2026, AGIBOT
IDC said global humanoid robot shipments were close to 25,000 units in the first half of 2026, up 432.1% from a year earlier. It said Chinese makers supplied more than 95% of them. Its public post gives no shipment figures or ranking for individual makers.
AgiBot said it partnered with ASD, a Chinese cookware company, to deploy 100 X2 humanoid robots across 100 retail stores in China. It said the robots greet customers and recommend cookware, then hand off to staff for purchases. The count is AgiBot's own claim. Its release also says the robots are being introduced across the stores.
Source: AGIBOT and ASD Deploy 100 AGIBOT X2 Humanoid Robots Across 100 Retail Stores, AGIBOT
Gizmodo, citing The Information, reported that Tesla built several hundred Optimus robots a week in August 2026. It said that was up from a few dozen a week a few months earlier. The report said most are kept in-house for testing, training and data collection. It said Tesla plans to lease robots to commercial customers at first.
Source: Tesla Wants to Build 20,000 Optimus Robots a Week. First It Has to Figure Out Hands, Gizmodo
AgiBot said it and Chimelong Group launched the first phase of a deployment of more than 300 robots at Chimelong Spaceship Park. It said they perform, guide visitors and serve hotel guests. The count is AgiBot's own claim. Its release does not say how many are humanoids.
Source: AGIBOT and Chimelong Launch Large-Scale Embodied AI Theme Park with More Than 300 Robots, AGIBOT
UBTech's interim report gives a sales volume of 921 full-size humanoid robots for the six months to June 30, 2026. It puts revenue from those products and services at RMB 590.3 million, up from RMB 38.2 million a year earlier. It also cites an annual production target of 10,000 units.
Source: UBTECH Robotics Corp Ltd Interim Report 2026, UBTECH Robotics
Boston Dynamics announced the Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America outside Savannah, Georgia. It said Atlas robots are being trained there on tasks such as sequencing car parts. Hyundai's plan to begin with 25,000 units at Hyundai and Kia plants is a target.
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5. IEEE Spectrum reported that the robot was not yet deployed in factories. It said an Agility securities filing uses an illustrative estimate of about $8,500 a month for the robot as a service. By the magazine's math, $300 million in orders is under 1,000 robots.
Source: Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That's Truly Safe, IEEE Spectrum
TechCrunch reported that Tesla's second-quarter letter dropped wording from its first-quarter letter about Optimus reaching volume production. Elon Musk said it would be Tesla's hardest product to scale. Tesla ended Model S and X production at Fremont in spring 2026 to make way for the robot.
Source: Tesla spending skyrockets as Cybercab, Semi, Megapack production timeline slips, TechCrunch
UBTech said Terra Robotics, its exclusive distributor for Germany, Switzerland and Austria, bought an initial batch of several dozen full-size humanoids. UBTech said they were for sites including logistics centers of the retailer Rossmann, in what it called a long-term pilot. It gave its own 2025 sales as 1,079 units.
1X said its Hayward, California factory was fully operational and ramping toward an initial capacity of 10,000 NEO home robots a year. Robots coming off the line were going first to its own team for in-home testing. As of April 30, 2026, 1X said the first customer units would ship in 2026.
Figure said its BotQ factory had delivered over 350 Figure 03 robots and raised its output rate from one a day to one an hour. By its own account the robots go to internal research, data collection, housework development and commercial use-case work, so this is not a count of customer shipments.
AgiBot said multiple G2 robots were loading and unloading tablets at test stations on Longcheer Technology's production lines. It said it planned 100 robots there by the third quarter of 2026. AgiBot labels the G2 an embodied intelligent robot. Its release does not call it a humanoid.
After a year-long pilot, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracted seven Digit robots from Agility Robotics under a robots-as-a-service deal, TechCrunch reported. The robots are to unload totes of auto parts from an automated tugger at a plant that builds RAV4 SUVs.
Source: Toyota contracts seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory, TechCrunch
TechCrunch reported a deal for 1X to ship up to 10,000 NEO humanoids to EQT portfolio companies between 2026 and 2030. The number is a ceiling, and 1X said it would sign a separate deal with each interested company. At the time, 1X declined to say how many preorders the $20,000 NEO had received.
Source: 1X struck a deal to send its 'home' humanoids to factories and warehouses, TechCrunch
Figure published results of what it called an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, loading sheet-metal parts on 10-hour weekday shifts. It reported more than 90,000 parts loaded, 1,250 hours of runtime and a role in over 30,000 BMW X3s, and said it was retiring the model.
Source: F.02 Contributed to the Production of 30,000 Cars at BMW, Figure
Nikkei Asia reported on September 12, 2025 that UBTech had won a contract worth 250 million yuan ($35.1 million) for industrial humanoid robots. UBTech called it the world's largest such order, which is the company's claim. The report notes that the Walker S2 model can change its own batteries.
Source: China's UBtech wins $35m order for industrial humanoid robots, Nikkei Asia
TechCrunch, citing The Information, reported that Tesla had built only hundreds of Optimus robots so far in 2025, against a stated goal of at least 5,000 for the year. Elon Musk said that week that production of the Optimus 3 design would start by early 2026.
Source: Tesla is reportedly behind on its pledge to build 5,000 Optimus bots this year, TechCrunch
In a Hong Kong stock exchange filing, UBTech said it signed a contract on April 24, 2025 for Walker S1 and Walker C humanoid robots. It said they were for manufacturing and hospitality use in car factories. UBTech said this was its first small-batch industrial order. It named no buyer or quantity and said it had received an advance.
1X chief executive Bernt Børnich told TechCrunch the company planned early tests of its Neo Gamma robot by the end of 2025. He said the tests would be in a few hundred to a few thousand homes. This was a target, not a delivery. He said the tests would rely on remote human operators.
Source: 1X will test humanoid robots in 'a few hundred' homes in 2025, TechCrunch
Optimus robots mixed drinks and talked with guests at Tesla's We, Robot event the previous week. TechCrunch reported, citing Bloomberg and other outlets, that those robots were remotely operated or overseen by Tesla staff. It added that they could walk on their own. This was a demo, not a deployment.
Source: Tesla Optimus bots were controlled by humans during the 'We, Robot' event, TechCrunch
BMW Group said a Figure 02 robot inserted sheet metal parts into fixtures during a trial run lasting several weeks at its Spartanburg plant. BMW added that no Figure robots were at the plant at the time of the announcement and that no definite timetable existed for bringing them there.
Source: Successful test of humanoid robots at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, BMW Group
TechCrunch reported that Elon Musk said Tesla would have Optimus robots in low production for its own use in 2025. It reported that he hoped Tesla would have them in high production for other companies in 2026. This was a target Musk set in a post on X ahead of Tesla's earnings, not a delivery.
Source: Elon Musk sets 2026 Optimus sale date. Here's where other humanoid robots stand., TechCrunch
GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics signed a multi-year robots-as-a-service agreement after a pilot in late 2023. Digit robots move totes onto conveyors at a Spanx facility. The companies called it the first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots, which is their own claim.
Source: GXO Signs Industry-First Multi-Year Agreement with Agility Robotics, Agility Robotics
New Atlas reported that Unitree introduced the G1 humanoid with a starting price of $16,000. It noted that Unitree's launch video said some of the functions shown were still under development. The report gave no shipping date.
Source: Video: $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl, New Atlas
Apptronik announced a commercial agreement to pilot its Apollo humanoid in Mercedes-Benz manufacturing, exploring tasks such as bringing assembly kits and totes of parts to the production line. It called this its first publicly announced commercial deployment and gave no robot numbers or sites.
Source: Apptronik and Mercedes-Benz Enter Commercial Agreement, Apptronik
Figure announced a commercial agreement to bring its Figure 01 humanoid to BMW's Spartanburg, South Carolina plant, TechCrunch reported. Figure said it would start with five tasks, introduced one at a time, under a leasing model. BMW did not say how many robots would be used.
Source: BMW will deploy Figure's humanoid robot at South Carolina plant, TechCrunch
IDC counts nearly 25,000 humanoid robots shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026, up 432.1%. AgiBot says it led with more than 8,600, but three research firms give three different totals.
Humanoid robots can do a few repetitive jobs in controlled workplaces. General-purpose autonomy is not here yet, and some showcase demos have relied on remote human operators.
Yes, you can order one: Unitree lists humanoids from $4,900 to $90,000 and 1X takes deposits on a $20,000 home robot. Agility offers its robot as a service, and Tesla Optimus is not on sale.