Deployments
Where humanoid robots are actually working: factory, warehouse and retail deployments, pilot programs, fleet sizes and the results companies report.
Industrial
Swiss aircraft manufacturer testing a humanoid robot inspector on its PC-24 assembly line
Nov 6, 2026Technology
Toyota Robotics: Toyota just established a dedicated robotics division
Nov 5, 2026Humanoid Daily
Figure's baby AGI, Meta's China gamble, China 5Xs physical AI investment, and Agility goes to Wall Street
Nov 3, 2026More Deployments
Pivotting from cars to robots: Schaeffler cuts 3,460 jobs, bets €400 million on humanoids
Germany's Schaeffler is closing 5 European factories and cutting nearly 3,500 jobs. In the same announcement, it reveals a €400 million humanoid robotics order book, first robot deployments in December, and deals with 45 robotics companies.
Nov 3, 2026AGIBOT's 24-hour convenience store test: what 6 humanoid robots can do
AGIBOT deployed 6 G2 humanoid robots to staff a convenience store for an entire 24-hour operating day, covering everything from morning coffee to overnight restocking. The challenge shows how far the world's largest humanoid manufacturer has come ...
Nov 3, 2026Japan just mounted a humanoid robot on a railway vehicle and gave it a chainsaw
JR East's ZIZAI ZX-3 humanoid robot has a claw on one arm and a chainsaw on the other. The ZX-3 is trimming trees along the Koumi Line in Nagano ... a real-world deployment that shows humanoid robots finding traction in jobs humans don't want.
Nov 3, 2026Aeon's robot logistics hub cuts 39 workers. The company hired 11,000 more
Japan's largest retailer opened a physical AI logistics hub in Kawaguchi on October 29, using 90+ robots running at 3-4x human productivity ... and Aeon's total workforce grew by more than 11,000 people in the same year.
Oct 30, 2026Europe's first humanoid robot factory is in Serbia, and it's Chinese
AGIBOT and Minth Group opened Europe's first humanoid robot mass-production facility in Šabac, Serbia in August 2025, weeks after the US banned Chinese robots on national security grounds. One year in, it looks like one of the shrewder strategic moves in the industry.
Oct 29, 2026The China strategy? South Korea using government agencies as robot customers
South Korea's plan to deploy 1,700 AI robots across its military, police, fire service, and agriculture in 2027 isn't really about the robots. It's about creating a market, collecting real-world data, and building an industry fast enough to compete with China.
Oct 28, 2026Agile Robots and Audi piloting humanoids ... on a task done 1 million times a day
Agile Robots launched its Agile ONE SN research humanoid at NVIDIA GTC Berlin and announced a 4-way proof-of-concept with Audi to automate a task performed roughly 1 million times daily at Audi's Ingolstadt plant.
Oct 27, 2026Samsung robots for surgery, UK's biggest seed round, Boston Dynamics employee revolt, and hello BlackBerry!
Today in Humanoid Daily ... the UK's biggest ever robotics seed round, Samsung brings robots into surgery, Boston Dynamics employee revolt as they prep for for 10,000 Atlas robots, Digit gets more jobs, we see more robots building robots, BlackBerry wants to power physical AI, an $89,000 humanoid strolls through New York, and the number of the day is 185.
GXO is expanding Digit to 2 more warehouses, but they're still chasing ROI
Agility Robotics and GXO are expanding their humanoid partnership from 1 to 3 U.S. sites. That doesn't mean GXO is hitting ROI targets yet on its humanoid robot testing.
Oct 26, 2026What 86 Chinese executives really think about humanoid robots
Morgan Stanley's first AlphaWise survey of Chinese industrial buyers found 62% want humanoid robots but 77% are unsatisfied with current products. The ball is in the robot makers' court: improve humanoids and reduce costs.
Oct 26, 2026Striding AI plans to reinvest retail with robots, $100M of investment, and a massive 7-Eleven franchisee
Striding AI was founded in February 2026, closed a $100 million angel round in June, and unveiled a three-robot system for 24/7 retail operations at APRCE on October 8. The Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group, which operates 7-Eleven franchise stores across Asia, is a co-founder and anchor investor.
Oct 23, 20261.2 million consecutive steps: Figure 03 walked 348 miles in 9 days
Figure AI ran its Figure 03 humanoid on a treadmill for 9 consecutive days, logging 1.2 million steps to surface mechanical and software failures before commercial deployment.
Oct 22, 2026Schaeffler's China factory: humanoid robots building parts for humanoid robots
The German precision parts maker opened a 7,500-square-meter facility in Taicang on October 20, 2026, where 6 humanoid robots assemble the actuators that go inside other humanoid robots. It is the most structurally literal example of the industry's self-referential supply chain.
Oct 20, 2026Farmtech, meet humanoid robots, sort of: AGCO is bringing Digit to farm equipment manufacturing
AGCO, a $10 billion agricultural equipment maker behind Fendt and Massey Ferguson, will pilot Agility Robotics' Digit at its Hesston, Kansas facility in 2027 ... the first major deployment of humanoid robots in agricultural machinery manufacturing.
Oct 20, 2026Here's the battery tech that gives Digit 5 a 10:1 work-to-charge ratio
A Cambridge battery spin-out using niobium tungsten oxide anodes just landed its second robotics contract, and the specs for Agility's Digit 5 are striking: 90 minutes of work, 9 minutes to recharge, and 20-plus hours of productive operation per day.
Oct 19, 2026Hyundai and Kia plan humanoid robots in all new factories by 2032
At E-FOREST Tech Day 2026, Hyundai Motor and Kia unveiled a concrete roadmap to deploy humanoid robots in all newly constructed plants starting after 2032, alongside a live pilot of their manufacturing AI agent Polaris at Ulsan and a Singapore 'mother plant' concept targeting full virtual manufacturing by 2030.
Oct 18, 2026Korea approves 20 humanoid robots for working with humans in factories
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy approved 20 bipedal humanoid robots for deployment at semiconductor, automotive, shipbuilding, and logistics sites, the country's first formal regulatory clearance for humanoids in shared workspaces. Korea also approved a deployment of quadruped guard dogs.
Oct 17, 2026Hong Kong bets HK$10 billion on becoming the world's humanoid robot testing ground
Hong Kong just launched an embodied AI hub with Unitree, AgiBot, Galbot, and Robotera as partners, backed by a HK$10 billion government industrial fund. The pitch: a bridge between Chinese hardware makers and global markets.
Oct 16, 2026Google one-shots humanoid training, Tesla gives robots skin, Faraday launches $2,490 humanoids, and more!
Today in Humanoid Daily ... Google one-shots robot training with Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robot, factory workers can now vibe-code robots, Galbot expands its 200 robot stores to Hong Kong, Agility goes public, Faraday launches $2,490 humanoids, Tesla develops touch-sensitive robot skin, we get a new humanoid designed to fight loneliness, and the number of the day is 10,000!
BYD goes big in humanoid robots with 4,000 engineers, NVIDIA makes robots smarter, and much more
Today in Humanoid Daily ... BYD reportedly has 4,000 engineers (!!!!) building humanoids, NVIDIA gives robots longer memories for vastly better physical AI, SafeWorld raises $12M for robot safety, Italy launches a factory humanoid named Luca, Denmark puts humanoids on the night shift, and the number of the day is $40.
Renting a humanoid robot in China now costs $40 a day, down 80% in 1 year
China's Golden Week 2026 confirmed the biggest trend in global robotics: humanoid rental prices fell 80% in one year, dedicated exchanges are scaling fast, and the market infrastructure for robot-as-a-service is taking shape.
Oct 10, 2026The K-pop agency that's become a humanoid robot unicorn
Galaxy Corporation, a Korean entertainment agency, deployed 16 Unitree G1 humanoids at Times Square in September, owns the world's first robot theme park in Seoul, posted $215M in revenue with 619% growth, and is preparing for a U.S. IPO. The entertainment industry just entered the humanoid robot market.
Oct 9, 2026China's Lumos Robotics says it staged the world's first fully autonomous robot theater
A Shenzhen startup founded in 2024 put its NIX humanoid robots on stage for a 45-minute autonomous theatrical performance with reportedly no remote operators. Entertainment is becoming a real vertical for robots, and TrendForce says the business model already works out to a 6-8 month payback.
Oct 9, 2026New UBTECH, VW project: humanoid robots will help mass customize cars
Two years into a working deployment at FAW-Volkswagen's Qingdao plant, UBTECH has just formalized the relationship with a strategic cooperation agreement covering both logistics and smart manufacturing. The most interesting bit: humanoid robots will help the auto makers build more customized and personalized cars ... something that standard automation and assembly lines struggles to do.
Oct 8, 2026New NVIDIA investment in Figure? And, Japan's $6B physical AI bet, Agility Robots shares unit economics, and much more!
Today in Humanoid Daily ... Japan bets $6 billion on physical AI, Amazon’s Alexa chief takes over Boston Dynamics, Korea runs massive humanoid logistics test, Agility holds its first-ever investor day, and Minerva says: don't kill workers, send Roger. Also, the number of the day is $1 billion from NVIDIA ... for Figure?
Korea's logistics giants are racing to deploy humanoid robots
CJ Logistics and Lotte Global Logistics are running simultaneous humanoid robot pilots in Korean warehouses, backed by government funding and a national robotics strategy. The robots from Korean startup Robros are not fast yet, but the logistics industry is betting on 24-hour stamina, not speed.
Oct 7, 2026Hexagon's path to 1,000 humanoids at Schaeffler runs on two metrics and a set of wheels
Schaeffler wants at least 1,000 Hexagon Aeon humanoids in its factories by 2032. Hexagon Robotics president Arnaud Robert explains what it takes: a multipurpose fleet rather than single-task robots, two metrics that matter (cycle time and human intervention), no teleoperation, a sim-to-real-to-sim data loop, and wheels that he says can even climb stairs.
Oct 6, 2026Top 10 countries globally for industrial robots: who's growing, who's falling behind
China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, 59% of the global total and nearly 3X the next four countries combined. The US passed Japan for second place but still imports most of its robots. Japan and Europe are sliding, while India is rising fast, according to the IFR's World Robotics 2026 report.
Oct 5, 2026Toyota's plan for 400,000 humanoid robots rewrites what 'at scale' means
Toyota is planning to deploy 400,000 humanoid robots across its factories and supplier network starting in 2028 ... a fleet larger than any other company has even imagined. Except, maybe, Tesla.
Oct 3, 2026General Robotics CEO: we're wasting billions on physical AI chasing the wrong layer
General Robotics says its GRID platform can onboard a new robot in two hours instead of a month. CEO Ashish Kapoor, who led Microsoft's robotics research group, explains how AI agents and a single robotics monorepo make that possible, why mixed robot fleets are inevitable, and why he thinks billions invested in robot foundation models may be chasing the wrong layer.
Oct 3, 2026