Already at work around the world.

Validate humanoid component manipulation in a manufacturing environment.

In February 2026, Unitree published G1 assembly work using UnifoLM-X1-0 in its own factory.

Robot-component assembly was demonstrated; this is distinct from customer production deployment.

Connect visual perception, walking, and reaching in human environments.

HEAD (2025) validates control learned from human motion and vision data on a real G1.

The robot navigates toward an image-selected target and reaches for it; research code is public.

C’est Mon Donuts sought attention at its stand and footage for social media.

On 10 October 2026, Libella teleoperated G1 at the shopping centre in Thiais, France.

Delivered greetings, dance sequences, mall walkabouts, and filming for the brand’s social media.

Validate whether multi-humanoid collaboration works across real assembly and inspection stations.

In March 2025, dozens of units were placed in the final-assembly, SPS, and quality-inspection areas of ZEEKR's Ningbo 5G factory.

Collaborative sorting, heavy-bin handling, and precision assembly of film parts; training is also under way at BYD, Foxconn, and others.

Run a repetitive test station (fixture insertion at ±0.5 mm, pass/fail sorting) reliably without relying on manual labor.

In April 2026, G2 was put on the MMIT test station at the Nanchang plant; 36-hour integration, with an 8-hour continuous run livestreamed.

19–20 s cycles, 310 units/hour, >99% success, 140+ cumulative hours; expansion to 100 robots planned for Q3 2026.

Serve round-the-clock online orders without tying up pharmacists in fulfillment.

From September 2026 at the Hongcao Road store in Xuhui, Shanghai: autonomous picking, visual verification, packing, and hand-off to pickup lockers.

400–500 orders/day, 68 s per order, 100% picking accuracy; a Beijing Haidian store handles ~5,000 SKUs at ~99.5% grasp success.

Manual rounds for gauge reading and infrared thermography limited inspection frequency and consistency across a large substation.

X30 (precise inspection) and Lynx M20 (rapid patrol) at the 220 kV Xianggong substation in Linyi; IP67, −20 to 55 °C.

Inspection cycle cut by two-thirds; in the maker's utility deployments a round takes under 35 min (vs. ~2 h manual) with >98% meter recognition.

Test whether humanoids can permanently handle customer attraction and product guidance at an electronics and lifestyle flagship.

Opened in November 2025 with JD.com and Shum Yip at UpperHills, Futian; five humanoids work as shop staff.

Robots guide shoppers to products and answer store and product questions by voice, in a permanent retail setting.

Manually unloading cartons inside hot or cold trailers was a safety burden and hard to staff.

First commercial deployment in North America in January 2023; Stretch picks cartons one by one onto a conveyor. Since expanded to the UK and Europe.

Unloading up to 700 cases/hour; in May 2025 DHL agreed to deploy 1,000+ more units and extend to case picking.

Thousands of inspection points on pumps, motors, and gas systems in a 200 mm fab; retrofitting fixed sensors was costly.

Spot with Levatas computer vision patrols autonomously, reading analog gauges and capturing thermal data; missions were set up in about half a day.

Operational data collected without facility upgrades feeds predictive maintenance, aiming to prevent failures that scrap wafers.

Run high-volume apparel e-commerce fulfillment accurately from day one at a new 56,000 m² site.

In March 2023, about 200 goods-to-person P800 AMRs (1,000 kg payload, 2 m/s) went into Radial's second Indianapolis center.

Goods-to-person picking lifts efficiency and accuracy; replicates Radial's European Geek+ sites in North America and created 100+ jobs.

45% of cleaners were agency staff with frequent absences, and manual tank emptying took 7 minutes a cycle, so quality and efficiency were inconsistent.

From October 2022, 34 robots and 18 charging docks were deployed across check-in areas and airside.

1,760 staff-hours freed a year, up to 80% of water recycled; reported net savings of £124,175 over five years with a 64% ROI.

E-commerce logistics serving 1,045 stores in 25 European countries had to absorb rising orders and returns with next-day delivery and near-perfect accuracy.

Hundreds of P-series goods-to-person robots deployed at DCs in Castelnau (France), Łódź (Poland), and Campania (Italy).

3x efficiency vs. manual, 250 order lines per hour per station, 339 putaway items per hour, and up to 30% more storage capacity.

Thermal, leak, and safety checks on crush and refinery equipment relied on manual rounds; the 'Plant of the Future' program called for autonomous monitoring.

Pilot since mid-2024: 2–3 shifts on weekdays and all 3 on weekends, each ~2-hour mission with thermal, acoustic, and PTZ-camera inspections.

Detected a centrifuge air leak and bearing temperature swings (40–100 °C); AI checks for seed spills, fire extinguishers, and emergency doors.

China is short ~5.5 million care workers; labor is the biggest cost and staff are hard to find.

Strategic agreement in June 2025; S1 is stationed at a joint training base for routine on-site trials.

Led tai chi with residents; the partners are developing daily-living support, monitoring, companionship, and on-site operating rules.

Shift repetitive, heavy-load work to humanoids step by step, validating safety and quality per process.

In September 2026 the RMAC training center opened at HMGMA, training Atlas on parts sequencing with real auto parts.

Parts sequencing from 2028, component assembly by 2030; 25,000 units planned across Hyundai and Kia plants.

Tent intake could take up to five clinicians, with infection exposure and PPE shortages.

From April 2020, Spot carried an iPad into ED triage tents so physicians could interview patients remotely.

Reduced nursing staff exposure; with MIT, measured skin temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and SpO2 from 2 m.

Manual unloading of trailers and containers is heavy work and hard to staff during peak seasons.

Agreement signed September 2023; Stretch installed at Hermes Fulfilment in Haldensleben in under a week.

Autonomous unloading frees staff for higher-value work; Stretch planned for 20+ sites and Spot for 10+.

Reduce floor-cleaning work for store staff and standardize quality across a 4,000+ store network.

After a test phase, 200+ units were rolled out to German stores; distributor Philon provides an all-inclusive service package.

Cleans a whole store unsupervised in about 1.5 hours; standard in new stores, with a second phase planned.

Expanded fresh-produce ranges increased daily floor cleaning, while food retail demands high hygiene.

After a four-store pilot, rollout began in fall 2025; distributor Robobee handles training and maintenance.

200 units in service; more than double the cleaning productivity, up to 2,000 m² on about 15 L of water.

Growing volumes required faster, more efficient sortation.

In April 2024, 60+ sorting robots went live at the new Baeksa site, about four football fields in size.

Sortation productivity and efficiency up 70%; the site stores up to 300,000 items. Geek+'s first sortation warehouse in Korea.

Manual tunnel inspections took 2–3 hours and up to 6 km of walking, with staff entering the tunnel.

With local partner Eastern Green Power and 3–4 months of safety assessment, a pilot runs in the 40 km tunnel.

Video and thermal imaging flag cracks and seepage with instant reports; 480 inspection hours/year saved (est.), wider rollout planned.

The plant is 1,000+ km from the nearest city; locating and visually inspecting equipment took up to 90 minutes.

Spot ("Spector") patrols autonomously with 30x zoom and thermal cameras, shutting down if gas is detected.

Images feed the FUSE digital twin and support regulatory electrical inspections, reducing entries into hazardous areas.

Welded bodies need a visual quality check in the weld shop.

At Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, opened in March 2025, the Spot quadruped inspects visual quality in the weld shop.

Plant-wide, assembly automation is about twice that of existing plants, with AGV parts supply and parking robots.

Checking door locks, seat belts, and headlamp covers and applying badges are manual tasks.

In February 2024, Walker S performed these quality checks and badge application at Nio's F2 plant.

Dongfeng Liuzhou also announced a 20-unit purchase (March 2025); trials are spreading across Chinese auto plants.

Inserting sheet-metal parts into welding fixtures in the body shop was still done by people.

After a few weeks of testing in 2024, Figure 02 loaded sheet-metal parts into welding fixtures; in June 2026 Figure 03 began sorting inbound parts onto sequencing trolleys.

About 11 months of operation supporting production of 30,000+ X3s.

People handle logistics and light tasks such as delivering parts kits to the line and inspecting parts.

Agreement in March 2024 and investment in March 2025; fewer than ten units at Kecskemét (Hungary) and Berlin-Marienfelde, starting with parts-kit delivery and inspection.

Plans to expand from logistics to light assembly.

Up to 12 modules are built into the case by welding, bonding, and bolting — 2,775 parts per pack.

Volume production began in June 2025 on a 2 km line with 180 robots.

Packs are assembled in-house and fed to vehicle assembly.

Trays and boards are pulled from racks, lined with baking paper, and loaded with frozen roll dough.

A GP180-120 (unloading trays and boards), an MPK2F (laying paper), and four MPP3H (placing dough), with food-grade grease and washdown paint.

Unloads 400 trays and 1,000 boards an hour.

Trays loaded with dough must be unloaded from the freezer and stacked onto rack trolleys.

Four GP180 FGG robots with layer grippers unload up to six trays at a time onto racks; running since November 2024.

Handles 1,000 trays an hour per freezer.

Baked pastries and croissants go into trays, and wrapped loaves into cases.

IRB 340 robots pick four napolitanas at a time into trays (100/min); six IRB 340 with vision handle croissants; an IRB 1600 case-packs seven loaves at once.

Croissant tray-packing runs at 640–1,020 per minute.

Two people moved bagged loaves and rolls from the conveyor into shipping crates; clear bags are hard for cameras to locate.

KINE Robotics built a system in which a Stäubli TS2-60 with a ToF 3D camera tracks and picks bags on the moving conveyor.

Handles 25–30 bags a minute, replacing the two-person task.

Two million small boards a year must be placed into trays, and the trays into boxes.

A UR5 with a custom gripper places three boards at a time into 54-board trays, then boxes and closes them, across three shifts.

Productivity +25%, payback in 18 months.