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Car plants, warehouses and a few labs. A site-by-site map of where humanoids work in 2026: BYD, Geely, Foxconn, Hyundai, Amazon, Mercedes-Benz and more.

Kepler K2 and Galbot G1 reach 8 hours with 1.4–2.3 kWh batteries and 75–92 kg of mass. Digit 5 takes the other route. Payload and runtime across 11 robots.

UBTECH reported 921 humanoids in H1 2026, AgiBot 5,100+ in 2025, Figure 350+. Tesla, Apptronik, NEURA and 1X have no verified deliveries. The numbers.

Unitree now sells humanoids from $4,900 to $100,000. R1, G1 and H2 compared on price, sensors, runtime and payload, and which one fits which job in 2026.

Digit 5 nearly doubles Digit's mass to 129 kg for 42% more payload and cuts runtime to 90 minutes with a 9-minute charge. What it means for 2027 buyers.

Figure 03 shipped with 20 kg of payload — five kg less than the platform it succeeded. The launch materials never marked the change. Across six manufacturers over three years of press releases, spec sheets, and shipped-unit measurements, a pattern of quiet downgrades keeps showing up. This is what to look for when the reveal deck does not match the datasheet.

A Digit-class humanoid leases at $30/hour. The warehouse worker it would displace costs $22/hour fully loaded. The gap closes quickly once integration, downtime, training, charging infrastructure, and depreciation enter the spreadsheet. Three real-world TCO scenarios with numbers traceable to public sources.

Of 43 humanoid robots tracked at biorobot.ai, only 8 ship with both native ROS2 support and Isaac Sim USD assets. ROS2 and Isaac Sim are not competitors — one is a deployment runtime, the other a training pipeline. A per-robot coverage matrix and a four-bucket decision tree for picking the right platform in 2026.

The cheapest humanoid robot you can wire-transfer money for and receive in mid-2026 is the Unitree R1 at $4,900. Every robot below $20,000 shipping today comes from a Chinese manufacturer. Every robot advertised at $20,000 — Figure 03, 1X NEO, Tesla Optimus, Kepler K2 — has not yet begun customer deliveries. A tiered guide with TCO math.

Figure 02 contributed to 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over 11 months at Spartanburg. Tesla Optimus has ~300 Gen 3 units in a learning phase with zero external customers. Specs, deployments, software stacks, and price compared on the numbers each company has actually published.

From Agility Digit at Amazon to Kepler K1 shipping to 30+ countries, we rank the best humanoid robots for warehouse and logistics operations based on payload, runtime, and real-world deployments.

43 robots, 32 manufacturers, prices from $5,900 to $320,000. The humanoid robot market has exploded. Here's what the data tells us about where it's heading.

Which humanoid robots actually support ROS2? We tested SDK access, URDF availability, and MoveIt2 compatibility across all 43 robots in our database.