Tesla's Optimus fleet is already on the job inside Giga Texas. Figure is at BMW. Apptronik's Apollo is at Mercedes. Unitree is shipping $16K humanoids from China by the thousands. This is the page that tracks them all, updated every day.
Built on the same production lines as Tesla cars. Uses Tesla's FSD neural networks for real-world navigation. Dexterous 22-DOF hands can handle eggs without breaking them. Target price: $20,000. The most ambitious and well-funded humanoid program on Earth.
Now valued near $39B on ~$2.34B raised (Bezos, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI) — the best-funded pure-play humanoid on Earth. Figure 03 works paid shifts at BMW Spartanburg (~$25/robot-hr), and the BotQ factory has ramped to one robot an hour, sized for 12,000 a year.
The OG, all grown up. The production-ready electric Atlas debuted at CES 2026 — “order-of-magnitude” simpler, built to work, not do backflips. Reaches 7.5 ft, lifts 110 lb. Every 2026 unit is committed to Hyundai and Google DeepMind; Hyundai aims for 30,000/yr.
Already on the clock. Digit is one of the few humanoids doing paid work at scale, it has moved 100,000+ totes at GXO and runs at Amazon, Schaeffler and Toyota sites. Agility unveiled Digit 5 in September 2026 and is steering a SPAC merger toward the public markets. Leased through commercial agreements, not sold at retail.
Austin's own humanoid. Born at UT Austin's Human Centered Robotics Lab. Apollo carries 55 lbs and is designed to be friendly. Apptronik has raised $935M at a $5B valuation, unveiled Apollo 2, and opened a 90,000 sq ft “Robot Park” training hub in Austin with Google DeepMind. Already on the floor at Mercedes-Benz, GXO and Jabil. Built right here in ATX.
The price disruptor. Unitree now lists the G1 at $13,500 and the smaller R1 at just $4,900 — less than a used car. The G1 does martial arts, recovers from falls, and navigates autonomously. Unitree IPO'd on Shanghai's STAR market near a $9B valuation and ships ~32% of the world's humanoids. The robot that makes humanoids accessible.
Backed by OpenAI. NEO is designed not for factories but for your home, laundry, dishes, tidying, companionship. Soft exterior, human-proportioned, intentionally non-threatening. The first humanoid built for domestic life.
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