Milestones
Timeline
| Date | Kind | Event | Company | Platform | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2030 | announced | By 2030: Atlas applications extend to component assembly (planned) By 2030, applications will extend to component assembly; over time Atlas will take on repetitive / strenuous tasks such as lifting heavy loads. Planned only — empty beats invented for deployed assembly today. | Boston Dynamics | Atlas (electric / industrial) | Boston Dynamics |
| 2027 | general availability | Digit 5 general availability (end of 2027 target) Restates Digit availability later than the 2025 GA language in the 2023 RoboFab release. This is a forecast revision, not a cited actual GA. | Agility Robotics | Digit 5 | Agility Robotics |
| 2027 Q2 | announced ship | Digit 5 early access (H1 2027 target) Vendor launch release. Not an actual ship date. | Agility Robotics | Digit 5 | Agility Robotics |
| 2027 | announced | 2027 multi-sector exploration; Spot/Stretch customer discussions for Atlas training Boston Dynamics also plans to begin exploring use cases in other industry sectors next year and is in discussions with several existing Spot and Stretch customers (manufacturing, aerospace, semiconductors, logistics, food & beverage, life sciences) to scale data collection / Atlas training in 2027. Plans / “in discussions” only. No named paid Atlas pilots. | Boston Dynamics | Atlas (electric / industrial) | Boston Dynamics |
| 2026-11-02 | other | Churchill XI shareholders approve the combination (not closed) Shareholders approved the Churchill XI combination on 2 November 2026. The same release still expects closing on 4 November 2026 and Nasdaq trading as AGLT and AGLTW on 5 November 2026. Not a closed listing. Ticker is not stored. | Agility Robotics | — | GlobeNewswire / Agility Robotics |
| 2026-10-22 | announced | 4NE1 Gen 4 unveiled at the TUM RoboGym opening Unveiled 22 October 2026 in Munich. The launch page says the robot is already operating at the TUM RoboGym and is being prepared for series production. | NEURA Robotics | 4NE1 Gen 4 | NEURA Robotics |
| 2026-10-21 | other | Optimus early production on the Fremont high-volume line The Q3 2026 Update says production began and calls the bots the first production-quality units. It also says the current process is suitable for a commercial product and that hardware iteration continues. No external delivery is stated. | Tesla | Optimus | Tesla / SEC Exhibit 99.1 |
| 2026-09-22 | announced | Forerunner commercialization language (near future — not a ship date) Company product page: will be commercialized and mass-produced in near future. Not a ship date. | Kepler | Forerunner K2 | Kepler Exploration Robotics |
| 2026-09-15 | announced | Digit 5 unveiled | Agility Robotics | Digit 5 | Agility Robotics |
| 2026-09-09 | announced | AGILE 2.0 launched On 9 September 2026 AGIBOT launched AGILE 2.0 (AGIBOT Generative Intelligent Locomotion Engine), a second-generation framework for perception-driven locomotion and whole-body control. It integrates visual perception, environmental understanding, whole-body locomotion, and manipulation in one real-time closed loop. The accompanying demonstrations are not a paid fleet. | Agibot | — | AGIBOT |
| 2026-08-28 | other | H1 2026 full-size humanoid sales volume of 921 units Interim results: 921 units and revenue of RMB 590.3 million for full-size embodied intelligent humanoid robot products and services in the first half of 2026. Period total, announced 28 August 2026. | UBTECH | — | UBTECH / HKEX |
| 2026-07-14 | funding | Nearly US$200 million Pre-IPO announced | LimX Dynamics | — | LimX Dynamics |
| 2026-07-06 | announced | DR02 entered commercial deployment in 2026 The 6 July 2026 conference post says DR02 officially entered commercial deployment in 2026 after core technical validation. No customer is named. | DEEP Robotics | DR02 | DEEP Robotics |
| 2026-06-24 | announced | Waltham expansion announced Boston Dynamics announced plans for a 323,000 square foot robotics and AI center at 1601 Trapelo Road in Waltham. The building is a planned consolidation and expansion. It is not described as occupied on the announcement date. | Boston Dynamics | — | Boston Dynamics |
| 2026-04-29 | other | Will manufacture 55 humanoid robots this week Official Figure YouTube description: “We will manufacture 55 humanoid robots this week.” Future-tense / this-week cadence — not a cumulative delivered total. Absent from the figure.ai BotQ news page. | Figure | Figure 03 | Figure |
| 2026-04-29 | other | BotQ ramp window: last 120 days Official Figure YouTube description: ramp measured over the last 120 days. One number = 120 days. Not a discrete Cleared calendar row. | Figure | Figure 03 | Figure |
| 2026-04-29 | other | BotQ manufacturing scaled 24× Official Figure YouTube description (BotQ Ramping F.03 Production): manufacturing scaled 24×, from 1 robot/day to 1 robot/hour. One number = 24×. Companion calendar row already holds the 1/day→1/hour rate from figure.ai news. | Figure | Figure 03 | Figure |
| 2026-02-03 | other | Mobileye agrees to acquire Mentee; deal closes Mobileye PR (6 Jan 2026): $900 million definitive agreement. Form 8-K (earliest event 3 Feb 2026): acquisition completed at $900,000,000 ($611,914,666 cash + 26,279,824 Class A shares). slipped 1 month | Mentee Robotics | — | Mobileye |
| 2026-01-06 | other | Mobileye announces agreement to acquire Mentee Robotics at CES 2026 Acquirer press kit: Mobileye announced an agreement to acquire Mentee Robotics at CES 2026. Signing is not close. No consideration figure on this page. | Mentee Robotics | MenteeBot | Mobileye |
| 2026-01-06 | other | Mobileye–Mentee acquisition agreement announcement dated 6 January 2026 Mobileye press kit dated January 06, 2026. Precise announcement-day sibling of the CES agreement row. Not the SPA day and not the close. | Mentee Robotics | — | Mobileye |
| 2025-11-20 | funding | Series A+ close (nearly RMB 1 billion) Company PR (27 Nov 2025): A+ completed 20 Nov 2025, led by Geely Capital with BAIC Capital. | Robotera | — | PR Newswire / RobotEra |
| 2025-10-28 | announced ship | NEO consumer preorder; first shipments targeted 2026 1X: NEO available for pre-order, first orders shipping to consumer homes in 2026 (US first; other markets from 2027). March 2025 coverage of in-home tests ‘this year’ is a separate, earlier claim — not treated as an actual 2025 GA. | 1X | NEO | 1X |
| 2025-10-09 | announced | Figure 03 introduced | Figure | Figure 03 | Figure |
| 2025-10-09 | announced | DR02 industrial humanoid unveiled Company YouTube + Chinese news post: DR02 launched 9 Oct 2025 as an IP66 all-weather industrial humanoid. | DEEP Robotics | — | YouTube / DEEP Robotics |
| 2025-09-19 | announced | HMND 01 Alpha (wheeled) launch | Humanoid | HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled | Humanoid |
| 2025-09-19 | announced | HMND 01 Alpha unveiled Company PR: UK-based Humanoid announced HMND 01 Alpha as an industrial humanoid. | Humanoid | — | Humanoid |
| 2025-07-27 | other | K2 “Bumblebee” 8-hour WAIC livestream; pre-sales opened Company PR: 8-hour livestream on 27 Jul 2025 during WAIC; pre-sales opened for Bipedal Basic / Developer and Wheeled Developer (starting ¥248,000). | Kepler | — | PR Newswire / Shanghai Kepler Robot Co., Ltd. |
| 2025-06-24 | announced | 4NE1 third generation shown at Automatica 2025 | NEURA Robotics | — | NEURA Robotics |
| 2025-06-24 | other | Elevate Robotics Inc. wholly owned subsidiary Apptronik announced the creation of Elevate Robotics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary that will focus on automating industrial tasks beyond the limits of the human form. | Apptronik | — | Apptronik |
| 2025-06-24 | announced | 4NE1 third generation world premiere (Automatica) | NEURA Robotics | 4NE-1 | NEURA Robotics |
| 2025 Q1 | announced ship | Next-generation MagicBot targeted for Q1 2025 launch Dec 2024 company post: Q1 2025 official launch of next-generation MagicBot; hundreds of units targeted in 2025. Actual GA date not captured. | MagicLab | — | MagicLab |
| 2025-02-21 | announced | NEO Gamma introduced | 1X | NEO | 1X |
| 2025-02-19 | announced | Protoclone V1 video published Clone’s YouTube “Protoclone: Bipedal Musculoskeletal Android V1” published 19 Feb 2025. Ars Technica treated the same day as the public debut. Hardware is shown suspended — not a cited first walk. | Clone Robotics | — | YouTube / Clone |
| 2025 | pilot | Electric Atlas Hyundai on-site experiments (2025 target) CEO Robert Playter told TechCrunch experiments at Hyundai facilities would begin the next year. The Atlas product page later says Atlas is taking first steps in a Hyundai customer facility — that page is not dated, so actualOn stays empty. | Boston Dynamics | — | TechCrunch |
| 2025 | general availability | Digit general market availability (2025 target) Promised in the 18 Sep 2023 RoboFab release. Digit 5 materials later restate availability into 2027 — that restatement is a separate row, not an actual GA date. | Agility Robotics | — | Business Wire / Agility Robotics |
| 2025 | other | 2025 full-size humanoid revenue and unit sales The 13 July 2026 Hitachi post states 2025 revenue from full-sized embodied intelligent humanoid robots of 820 million RMB and sales of 1,079 units. The post defines that category as non-remote-controlled, non-toy robots standing over 160 cm tall. | UBTECH | — | UBTECH |
| 2024-10-21 | announced | Forerunner K2 launched at GITEX GLOBAL 2024 Company PR dated 21 Oct 2024: K2 launched at GITEX, which began 14 Oct 2024. Stored as the PR day. | Kepler | — | PR Newswire / Shanghai Kepler Robot Co., Ltd. |
| 2024-09-30 | announced | GR-2 launched | Fourier | GR-2 | PR Newswire / Fourier Co. Ltd. |
| 2024-08-18 | announced | Second-generation lineup including Yuanzheng A2 unveiled TMTPOST: AGIBOT’s annual product launch introduced Yuanzheng A2 (and A2-W / A2-Max) plus open-source Lingxi X1. Day taken from that contemporaneous English report; company newsroom day not independently recaptured. | Agibot | — | TMTPOST |
| 2024-08-06 | announced | Figure 02 unveiled Second-generation hardware announced. Figure said Figure 02 had recently tested at BMW Manufacturing. | Figure | Figure 02 | PR Newswire / Figure |
| 2024-08-06 | pilot | BMW Spartanburg trial of Figure 02 BMW confirmed a several-week trial inserting sheet-metal parts. Same release: no Figure robots currently at the plant and no definite timetable for bringing them back. | Figure | Figure 02 | BMW Group |
| 2024-05-13 | announced | Unitree G1 introduced Unitree PR dated 15 May 2024 states G1 was introduced on 13 May 2024 and shown at ICRA 2024. | Unitree | Unitree G1 | PR Newswire / Unitree |
| 2024-05-13 | limited sale | G1 list price published with the unveil Same PR lists a $16k G1 price (excluding tax and shipping). Later storefront prices may differ — this row records the unveil-day list, not a later SKU change. | Unitree | Unitree G1 | PR Newswire / Unitree |
| 2024-04-17 | announced | Menteebot stealth exit; production-ready prototype targeted Q1 2025 The Robot Report: company unveiled its first bipedal prototype and said it planned a production-ready prototype by Q1 2025. Actual production-ready date not captured. | Mentee Robotics | — | The Robot Report |
| 2024-04-17 | announced | Electric Atlas unveiled as commercial-path platform Hydraulic Atlas retired the previous day (trade press). Hyundai on-site experiments were described as beginning the following year — no cited actual start date here. | Boston Dynamics | — | TechCrunch |
| 2024-04-17 | announced | Electric / industrial Atlas shown | Boston Dynamics | Atlas (electric / industrial) | TechCrunch |
| 2024-04-17 | announced ship | Menteebot prototype shown; production-ready unit targeted Q1 2025 | Mentee Robotics | MenteeBot | The Robot Report |
| 2024-04-05 | announced | RB-Y1 specifications and videos released Company PR: Rainbow published RB-Y1 detailed specs and performance videos — Korea’s first bimanual mobile manipulator (wheeled humanoid-style upper body, not a walking HUBO). | Rainbow Robotics | — | Rainbow Robotics |
| 2024-04-05 | announced | RB-Y1 spec release | Rainbow Robotics | RB-Y1 | Rainbow Robotics |
| 2024-03-15 | pilot | Mercedes-Benz agreement to pilot Apollo | Apptronik | Apollo | PR Newswire / Apptronik |
| 2024-03-15 | partnership | Mercedes-Benz manufacturing pilot agreement | Apptronik | — | PR Newswire / Apptronik |
| 2024-01-18 | partnership | BMW Manufacturing commercial agreement Figure announced a milestone-based commercial agreement to deploy general-purpose robots at BMW’s Spartanburg plant after an initial use-case phase. | Figure | — | PR Newswire / Figure |
| 2024 | announced ship | First Digit deliveries to Agility Partner Program (2024 target) RoboFab launch materials: APP customers can expect first Digits in 2024. | Agility Robotics | — | Business Wire / Agility Robotics |
| 2024-01 | founded | MagicLab founded Company financing post: founded in January 2024. Day-of-month not published. | MagicLab | — | MagicLab |
| 2024-01 | first outdoor | Full-size biped snow walking (company-stated) Company A+ PR: full-size bipedal humanoid demonstrated autonomous snow walking in January 2024. Day not stated. | Robotera | — | PR Newswire / RobotEra |
| 2023-12-29 | announced | Walker S debut at HKEX listing ceremony | UBTECH | Walker S | UBTECH |
| 2023-12-29 | announced | Walker S public debut at HKEX listing UBTECH said it developed Walker S in 2023 for industrial applications; the robot appeared at the 29 Dec 2023 Hong Kong listing ceremony. | UBTECH | — | UBTECH |
| 2023-12-06 | pilot | GXO Digit proof-of-concept at SPANX / Flowery Branch | Agility Robotics | Digit (legacy warehouse generation) | GlobeNewswire / GXO |
| 2023-12 | announced | CL-1 humanoid launched The Robot Report: CL-1 launched in December 2023 as the walking root of later LimX Oli. Day-of-month not stated. | LimX Dynamics | — | The Robot Report |
| 2023-11 | announced | Forerunner K1 released Company K2 PR: Forerunner K1 released in November 2023 (25 kg payload, 8-hour battery). Day-of-month not stated. | Kepler | — | PR Newswire / Shanghai Kepler Robot Co., Ltd. |
| 2023-10-18 | pilot | Amazon begins testing Digit Amazon’s Delivering the Future event: Digit testing in operations, initially tote recycling. Early-stage, not GA. | Agility Robotics | Digit (legacy warehouse generation) | TechCrunch |
| 2023-10-17 | first walk | Figure 01 first public walking video TechCrunch published the first public video of Figure 01 walking. The piece says Figure had confirmed a lab walk earlier (May 2023 visit) but withheld video until October. Lab-walk day is not independently dated here. | Figure | — | TechCrunch |
| 2023-09-18 | announced | RoboFab Salem factory announced Agility said the Salem plant was set to open later in 2023, with APP customer deliveries in 2024 and general market availability in 2025. | Agility Robotics | — | Business Wire / Agility Robotics |
| 2023-08-23 | announced | Apollo unveiled | Apptronik | Apollo | PR Newswire / Apptronik |
| 2023-08-15 | announced | Unitree H1 introduced Official Unitree video published 15 Aug 2023 introducing H1 as its first general-purpose humanoid. | Unitree | Unitree H1 | Unitree Robotics (YouTube) |
| 2023-08 | founded | Robotera founded Company Series A+ PR: founded in August 2023. Day-of-month not published. | Robotera | — | PR Newswire / RobotEra |
| 2023-07-06 | announced | GR-1 unveiled at WAIC Shanghai | Fourier | GR-1 | Xinhua |
| 2023-05-16 | announced | Phoenix unveiled | Sanctuary AI | Phoenix | TechCrunch |
| 2023 | announced ship | Optimus version-1 production target (2023) At the April 2022 Cyber Rodeo, Musk said Tesla had a shot at version-1 production the following year. Tesla’s later 10-K still says Bots have not been commercialized. No cited actual production/GA date — numeric slippage is not computed. | Tesla | — | CNBC |
| 2022-12 | founded | Astribot founded in Shenzhen English About page: founded in Shenzhen in December 2022. Day-of-month not published; stored as month. | Astribot | — | Astribot |
| 2022-09-30 | first walk | Optimus prototype shown walking (AI Day 2022) Tesla aimed for a 2022 prototype when the program was first announced. On 30 Sep 2022 a development unit walked on stage; Musk said it was the first untethered operation. Year-level announced date, so month slippage is not computed. | Tesla | Optimus | Electrek |
| 2022-08-11 | announced | CyberOne shown at Xiaomi launch event | Xiaomi | CyberOne | TechCrunch |
| 2022-03-31 | retired | ASIMO demonstrations end (Miraikan) on time | Honda | ASIMO | Miraikan |
| 2021-12-06 | announced | Ameca CES 2022 debut announced | Engineered Arts | Ameca | RoboticsTomorrow |
| 2021-12-06 | announced | Ameca CES 2022 appearance announced | Engineered Arts | — | RoboticsTomorrow |
| 2021-08 | announced | Optimus / Tesla Bot concept (AI Day) Public concept reveal at Tesla AI Day. Contemporaneous coverage says Tesla was aiming for a prototype in 2022. Not a product launch. | Tesla | — | CNBC |
| 2020-09-04 | pilot | TALOS delivered to University of Edinburgh SLMC PAL blog: TALOS joined Edinburgh’s Statistical Learning and Motor Control Group for loco-manipulation research. Research-platform placement, not a warehouse GA. | PAL Robotics | — | PAL Robotics |
| 2020 | founded | Oversonic founded Company site: Oversonic was born in 2020. Day-of-month not published. | Oversonic Robotics | — | Oversonic Robotics |
| 2019-02-19 | announced | Digit unveiled; deliveries targeted Q1 2020 Agility unveiled Digit (Cassie + torso/arms) and said deliveries would begin Q1 2020. A cited actual first-delivery date was not captured — warehouse pilots in 2023 are separate rows. | Agility Robotics | Digit (legacy warehouse generation) | Agility Robotics |
| 2017-11-21 | announced | T-HR3 unveiled | Toyota | T-HR3 | Toyota |
| 2000-11-20 | announced | ASIMO debuted | Honda | ASIMO | Honda |

