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Optimus
Tesla
Tesla describes Optimus as a general purpose, bi-pedal, autonomous humanoid robot designed to perform unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.
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Robotics
Machines that act in the world: the models that drive them, the bodies they drive, and the rules around both.
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Humanoid robots
the human template, and why every lab is copying it
Robot foundation models
one brain, many bodies
Embodied AI
intelligence with something to lose
Industrial robots and cobots
the four million machines already at work
Warehouse automation
where robots already outnumber the pilots
Robotaxis and self-driving
the largest robot fleet on earth
Drones and airspace rules
the sky is the regulated part
Machine vision and SLAM
how a robot knows where it is
Teleoperation and robot data
the person inside the demonstration
Robot safety standards
the rules that decide what can be sold
Automation and jobs
what the numbers actually support
Actuators and robot hands
why hands are the hard part
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The machines
Updated 22 Aug 2026Humanoids that walk, lift and work a shift on a factory line. Arms that pick and pack. Quadrupeds that patrol ground a person should not. Each machine below is a real one you can go and look at, with what it can actually do quoted from the people who built it.
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Figure calls Figure 03 a general purpose humanoid robot for every day, powered by its Helix AI, which it now presents as navigating unpredictable, ever-changing home environments, and has demonstrated it performing a logistics sequencing workflow at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg.
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Atlas (electric)
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics presents the all-electric Atlas as a humanoid for material handling that navigates to a charging station and swaps its own battery, with skills that deploy across a fleet once one robot learns them, and says it is taking its first steps into a customer facility with Hyundai for field testing on real-world sequencing tasks.
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Spot
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics describes Spot as an agile robot for automated sensing and inspection that can operate without interventions, self-charge and carry 14 kg of payload, with over 1,500 robots in customer hands.
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Digit
Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics calls Digit a commercially deployed humanoid robot bringing advanced automation to facility floors, run by its Arc cloud platform, with customers shown on its own site including Schaeffler, GXO, Mercado Libre, Amazon and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.
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G1
Unitree
Unitree markets the G1 as a humanoid agent AI avatar with 23 to 43 joint motors, driven by imitation and reinforcement learning, with an optional force-control dexterous hand, priced from US$13,500.
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NEO
1X
1X presents NEO as a home robot built for full autonomy that takes on household chores, with a voice interface, self-charging and a companion app; orders are open with a $200 deposit under an Early Access programme.
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Apollo (Apollo 2)
Apptronik
Apptronik describes Apollo as combining humanoid form, dexterous manipulation and real-world mobility in bipedal and wheeled configurations, with swappable batteries enabling 7x22 operation; data-collection workflows are deployed at customers including Mercedes-Benz and GXO; in July 2026 Google DeepMind used Apollo 2 to demonstrate whole-body humanoid control with Gemini Robotics 2.
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Vulcan
Amazon (Amazon Robotics)
Amazon calls Vulcan its first robot with a sense of touch, picking and stowing items in fulfilment centres; Amazon says it can handle approximately 75% of item types and is operating in Spokane, Washington and Hamburg, Germany, with wider rollout planned.
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Platform 2 (P2)
Zipline
Zipline's Platform 2 pairs an autonomous Zip aircraft with a tethered delivery droid for precise home delivery; Zipline says its fleet has flown more than 135 million autonomous miles and makes a delivery every 20 seconds somewhere in the world. In late July 2026 Cleveland Clinic began prescription deliveries by Zipline drone around Beachwood, Ohio, described in the clinic's own announcement as the first long-term prescription drone delivery programme by a US health system, the drone hovering at up to 300 feet and lowering a tethered pod.