First humanoid on a car production line
2024-08Figure AI / BMW
Figure spent ~11 months at BMW Spartanburg, supporting 30,000+ vehicles.
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Humanoid Robots
How close are general-purpose humanoid robots to real work?
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Distance to goal
The single most intuitive view — current position against the end goal, on a log scale.
Humanoid private funding
Metric detail 1
now
$1.9B
Figure AI
goal
~0.0 orders of magnitude to go
Headline indicators
Milestone timeline
Clear-cut events: crossed or not crossed.
5 achieved 0 in progress 1 locked
Humanoid enters paid warehouse pilots
2024Agility Robotics
Digit began moving totes in paid pilots at GXO and Amazon.
Humanoid piloted on auto assembly lines
2025Apptronik / Mercedes-Benz
Apollo piloted for parts delivery and inspection at Mercedes-Benz.
Figure hits $39B valuation
2025-09Figure AI
$1B+ Series C — a 15× jump from its $2.6B valuation in early 2024.
First consumer humanoid preorders
2025-101X / Figure
1X opened NEO home-robot preorders; Figure unveiled the Figure 03 home humanoid.
Mass-produced general-purpose humanoids
~ 2030s—
Reliable, low-cost humanoids doing open-ended work at scale — not yet here.
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