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The bank expects production “in the coming months” and commercial sales in the second half of 2027 — a year later than earlier internal timelines. The Fremont lines are installed, but there is still no published production count and no external customer.
Opened at ¥1,100 — up 629%, briefly worth ~$66B — and closed up 460% near $50B after raising ~$904M. Two sessions later it had given back more than a third. The prospectus explains the caution: 70%+ of revenue is research and education.
Jabil will help scale Apollo production and deploy Apollo units inside its own manufacturing operations — including, eventually, the lines that assemble Apollos themselves. It is the kind of deal that moves a company from pilots to fleets.
Figure 03 deploying at a Reno distribution centre serving more than 1,800 retail locations — JCPenney, Aéropostale and Brooks Brothers among them. Retail logistics is a different problem from an automotive line.
More than 100,000 totes moved at GXO, plus paying contracts with Toyota Canada and Mercado Libre. Agility’s S-4 later put numbers behind it: nine customer sites and 65,000+ operating hours logged, against $1.8M of 2025 net sales.
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Unitree reached its STAR Market listing hearing on June 1, clearing the way to become the first pure-play humanoid company to go public. It listed on 19 August 2026 — see our coverage above.
With the last Model S/X built in early May, Tesla is retooling Fremont for Optimus. First units expected July–August, with a stated 1M units/yr target.
Boston Dynamics demonstrated Atlas Electric acquiring a heavy-lift skill entirely in simulation, then adapting beyond its training range with no retraining.
AgiBot G2 units ran tablet testing on a live Longcheer production line for 140 hours straight, with the company targeting 100 units at the site by Q3 2026.
Honor's humanoid crossed in 50:26 — beating the human world record by 6+ minutes — sweeping the top three spots, despite entering robotics only in 2025.
1X Technologies says its soft-body NEO units now help assemble more NEOs on the factory floor, a notable step toward vertically integrated humanoid production.
Agility Robotics' Digit remains one of the few humanoids generating real recurring revenue, with paying contracts at GXO, Toyota Canada, and Mercado Libre.
Following its Mercedes-Benz manufacturing pilot, Apptronik is moving Apollo into GXO logistics, backed by more than $935M in Series A funding.
NEURA Robotics' cognitive humanoid pairs an industry-leading payload with proximity-sensing skin and an NVIDIA GR00T brain, in a Porsche-designed body.
Sanctuary AI continues developing Carbon, the teachable cognitive architecture behind its Phoenix general-purpose humanoid, offered via Robotics-as-a-Service.