Robots Take on Factory Tasks as Humanoid Rollouts Remain Limited

Robots are handling defined jobs at U.S. factory and logistics sites, but disclosed examples span completed production work, demonstrations and data collection, leaving the scale of humanoid deployment limited.

The Oct. 13 RoboStrategy founders forum in New York was scheduled to feature Apptronik, Standard Bots, Dexmate, Maven Robotics and Path Robotics. Planned robot interactions also involved Dyna Robotics and Coco Robotics. The announced program was set to cover robotics beyond humanoids, including industrial automation and autonomous delivery.

Figure 02 performed sheet-metal loading for welding at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina during 2025. It moved more than 90,000 parts through the workflow, working 10-hour shifts Monday through Friday and recording more than 1,250 operating hours. The robot’s work contributed to the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles. The part and hour totals measure robot activity, while the X3 number is the production total associated with the deployment. Figure 03 reached BMW’s Hall 52 in June 2026 for a demonstration of a separate logistics workflow. Figure 02’s production deployment has ended.

Apptronik’s nearly 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin trains Apollo 2 robots. The company also collects data at customer sites that include Mercedes-Benz and GXO, in workflows combining teleoperation and autonomous execution. Apollo 2 is available in bipedal and wheeled configurations. At Mercedes-Benz’s Berlin production campus, employees taught Apollo robots through teleoperation as they gathered production data; the program’s next step is autonomous operation.

Maven Robotics has wheeled, two-armed robots doing autonomous work across shifts for a Fortune 250 consumer goods company. Maven Robotics has a setup with up to eight robots operating 16 hours a day and achieving at least 99% uptime across the Fortune 250 customer and other partners. Maven aims to exceed 100,000 autonomous operating hours by the end of 2026, then top 1 million by the end of 2027. Those figures are goals, not completed totals.

The examples span different stages: a completed factory assignment, a logistics demonstration, data-gathering and teleoperation programs, and multi-shift autonomous operation. They show robots handling defined tasks, but do not establish broad use of bipedal humanoids.