Milestones

Timeline

Cross-company cited events. Slippage is shown only when both announced and actual dates are cited at day or month precision.
DateKindEventCompanyPlatformSource
2030announced
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 DynamicsAtlas (electric / industrial)Boston Dynamics
2027general 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 RoboticsDigit 5Agility Robotics
2027 Q2announced ship
Digit 5 early access (H1 2027 target)

Vendor launch release. Not an actual ship date.

Agility RoboticsDigit 5Agility Robotics
2027announced
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 DynamicsAtlas (electric / industrial)Boston Dynamics
2026-11-02other
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
2026-10-22announced
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 Robotics4NE1 Gen 4NEURA Robotics
2026-10-21other
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.

TeslaOptimusTesla / SEC Exhibit 99.1
2026-09-22announced
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.

KeplerForerunner K2Kepler Exploration Robotics
2026-09-15announced
Digit 5 unveiled
Agility RoboticsDigit 5Agility Robotics
2026-09-09announced
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
2026-08-28other
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
2026-07-14funding
Nearly US$200 million Pre-IPO announced
LimX Dynamics—LimX Dynamics
2026-07-06announced
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 RoboticsDR02DEEP Robotics
2026-06-24announced
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
2026-04-29other
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.

FigureFigure 03Figure
2026-04-29other
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.

FigureFigure 03Figure
2026-04-29other
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.

FigureFigure 03Figure
2026-02-03other
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
2026-01-06other
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 RoboticsMenteeBotMobileye
2026-01-06other
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
2025-11-20funding
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
2025-10-28announced 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.

1XNEO1X
2025-10-09announced
Figure 03 introduced
FigureFigure 03Figure
2025-10-09announced
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
2025-09-19announced
HMND 01 Alpha (wheeled) launch
HumanoidHMND 01 Alpha WheeledHumanoid
2025-09-19announced
HMND 01 Alpha unveiled

Company PR: UK-based Humanoid announced HMND 01 Alpha as an industrial humanoid.

Humanoid—Humanoid
2025-07-27other
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.
2025-06-24announced
4NE1 third generation shown at Automatica 2025
NEURA Robotics—NEURA Robotics
2025-06-24other
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
2025-06-24announced
4NE1 third generation world premiere (Automatica)
NEURA Robotics4NE-1NEURA Robotics
2025 Q1announced 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
2025-02-21announced
NEO Gamma introduced
1XNEO1X
2025-02-19announced
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
2025pilot
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
2025general 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
2025other
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
2024-10-21announced
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.
2024-09-30announced
GR-2 launched
FourierGR-2PR Newswire / Fourier Co. Ltd.
2024-08-18announced
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
2024-08-06announced
Figure 02 unveiled

Second-generation hardware announced. Figure said Figure 02 had recently tested at BMW Manufacturing.

FigureFigure 02PR Newswire / Figure
2024-08-06pilot
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.

FigureFigure 02BMW Group
2024-05-13announced
Unitree G1 introduced

Unitree PR dated 15 May 2024 states G1 was introduced on 13 May 2024 and shown at ICRA 2024.

UnitreeUnitree G1PR Newswire / Unitree
2024-05-13limited 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.

UnitreeUnitree G1PR Newswire / Unitree
2024-04-17announced
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
2024-04-17announced
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
2024-04-17announced
Electric / industrial Atlas shown
Boston DynamicsAtlas (electric / industrial)TechCrunch
2024-04-17announced ship
Menteebot prototype shown; production-ready unit targeted Q1 2025
Mentee RoboticsMenteeBotThe Robot Report
2024-04-05announced
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
2024-04-05announced
RB-Y1 spec release
Rainbow RoboticsRB-Y1Rainbow Robotics
2024-03-15pilot
Mercedes-Benz agreement to pilot Apollo
ApptronikApolloPR Newswire / Apptronik
2024-03-15partnership
Mercedes-Benz manufacturing pilot agreement
Apptronik—PR Newswire / Apptronik
2024-01-18partnership
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
2024announced 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
2024-01founded
MagicLab founded

Company financing post: founded in January 2024. Day-of-month not published.

MagicLab—MagicLab
2024-01first 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
2023-12-29announced
Walker S debut at HKEX listing ceremony
UBTECHWalker SUBTECH
2023-12-29announced
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
2023-12-06pilot
GXO Digit proof-of-concept at SPANX / Flowery Branch
Agility RoboticsDigit (legacy warehouse generation)GlobeNewswire / GXO
2023-12announced
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
2023-11announced
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.
2023-10-18pilot
Amazon begins testing Digit

Amazon’s Delivering the Future event: Digit testing in operations, initially tote recycling. Early-stage, not GA.

Agility RoboticsDigit (legacy warehouse generation)TechCrunch
2023-10-17first 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
2023-09-18announced
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
2023-08-23announced
Apollo unveiled
ApptronikApolloPR Newswire / Apptronik
2023-08-15announced
Unitree H1 introduced

Official Unitree video published 15 Aug 2023 introducing H1 as its first general-purpose humanoid.

UnitreeUnitree H1Unitree Robotics (YouTube)
2023-08founded
Robotera founded

Company Series A+ PR: founded in August 2023. Day-of-month not published.

Robotera—PR Newswire / RobotEra
2023-07-06announced
GR-1 unveiled at WAIC Shanghai
FourierGR-1Xinhua
2023-05-16announced
Phoenix unveiled
Sanctuary AIPhoenixTechCrunch
2023announced 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
2022-12founded
Astribot founded in Shenzhen

English About page: founded in Shenzhen in December 2022. Day-of-month not published; stored as month.

Astribot—Astribot
2022-09-30first 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.

TeslaOptimusElectrek
2022-08-11announced
CyberOne shown at Xiaomi launch event
XiaomiCyberOneTechCrunch
2022-03-31retired
ASIMO demonstrations end (Miraikan)

on time

HondaASIMOMiraikan
2021-12-06announced
Ameca CES 2022 debut announced
Engineered ArtsAmecaRoboticsTomorrow
2021-12-06announced
Ameca CES 2022 appearance announced
Engineered Arts—RoboticsTomorrow
2021-08announced
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
2020-09-04pilot
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
2020founded
Oversonic founded

Company site: Oversonic was born in 2020. Day-of-month not published.

Oversonic Robotics—Oversonic Robotics
2019-02-19announced
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 RoboticsDigit (legacy warehouse generation)Agility Robotics
2017-11-21announced
T-HR3 unveiled
ToyotaT-HR3Toyota
2000-11-20announced
ASIMO debuted
HondaASIMOHonda