Humanoid Robots

Figure spent ~11 months at BMW Spartanburg, supporting 30,000+ vehicles.

Digit began moving totes in paid pilots at GXO and Amazon.

Apollo piloted for parts delivery and inspection at Mercedes-Benz.

$1B+ Series C — a 15× jump from its $2.6B valuation in early 2024.

A $520M Series A extension (backers include Google, Mercedes-Benz and the Qatar Investment Authority) values Apptronik at $5B and lifts total funding to ~$1B, to scale Apollo production toward ~$80k/unit at volume from 2027.

1X began full-scale NEO production at a 58,000 sq-ft, vertically-integrated plant in Hayward, California — ~10,000 units/yr capacity (its first-year run sold out in 5 days), targeting 100,000 units by 2027.

Figure ran its humanoids 200 hours nonstop, sorting 249,558 packages with zero hardware failures and no teleoperation — driven end-to-end by its Helix neural network, a durability/autonomy milestone.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracted seven Agility Digit humanoids (starting with three) for its Woodstock RAV4 plant under a robots-as-a-service deal (~$30/hr per robot) — a pilot-to-commercial step in auto manufacturing.

Germany's NEURA announced a Series C of up to $1.4B at a $7B valuation (Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, Tether, Bosch, EIB…) — billed as the largest-ever raise for a full-stack robotics company; the full amount is milestone-contingent. 4NE-1 humanoid (~€98k) ships at scale from late 2026.

Hyundai Motor Group completed its acquisition of a controlling 80% stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank (valuing it at $1.1B) — bringing the Atlas humanoid maker in-house and positioning the group as a humanoid frontrunner.

Hyundai committed to absorb ~25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoids into its own plants and is building a Metaplant robotics factory targeting 30,000 Atlas/year by 2028; first fleets (parts sequencing) begin shipping to its RMAC center in 2026.

Boston Dynamics retired its decade-old hydraulic Atlas and revealed a fully electric Atlas with super-human range of motion (360° hip, waist and neck rotation) — its pivot from research robot to industrial humanoid, with pilots beginning at Hyundai.

1X opened NEO home-robot preorders; Figure unveiled the Figure 03 home humanoid.

Reliable, low-cost humanoids doing open-ended work at scale — not yet here.