How robotics fits together — the machines, the stacks inside them, and the markets buying them.
Humanoids
12Tendon-driven home humanoid designed to be safe to stand next to; softness is the safety argument instead of force limiting a rigid arm.
Pilot deploymentsBipedal humanoid built for tote handling in logistics; the first humanoid under a commercial RaaS agreement.
Pilot deploymentsFull-size humanoid from Apptronik with a swappable battery, piloted with Mercedes-Benz and GXO.
Pilot deploymentsElectric humanoid robot platform developed for industrial manipulation research and deployment.
Pilot deploymentsFigure AI's second-generation humanoid, the model piloted at BMW Spartanburg in 2024.
Pilot deploymentsFigure AI's third-generation humanoid, built around the Helix VLA model and targeted at home and commercial use. Deliberately sparse: no supplier data is published.
Pilot deploymentsANALYSTGeneral-purpose humanoid sold largely to research buyers, carrying over Fourier's rehabilitation-robotics actuator work.
Pilot deploymentsWheeled dual-arm humanoid working unmanned retail stores, where a constrained environment buys reliable manipulation data.
Pilot deploymentsHumanoid built around hydraulic dexterous hands, with teleoperation used as the data engine for autonomy.
PrototypeTesla's general-purpose humanoid robot program.
PrototypeIndustrial humanoid trialled on Chinese automotive assembly lines for handling and inspection tasks.
Pilot deploymentsCompact humanoid sold broadly to research labs and developers; the price point that reset expectations for humanoid hardware in 2024.
CommercialANALYSTQuadrupeds & legged
4Industrial inspection quadruped built for permanent residence on a plant, with explosion-protected variants for process sites.
CommercialQuadruped platform for industrial inspection and data capture, with over 1,500 units deployed per the company.
CommercialIndustrial quadruped for substation and tunnel inspection rounds, priced against Chinese domestic utility budgets.
CommercialRugged quadruped unmanned ground vehicle for defense and public-safety missions.
CommercialAMRs & warehouse
7Collaborative picking cart that leads an associate along an optimised pick path; the human still picks, the robot owns the route and the count.
CommercialTote-handling robot that drives on the floor and then climbs the rack face, trading a fixed crane for a fleet of climbers.
CommercialHigh-payload autonomous mobile base in the Fetch line, now sold by Zebra for pallet and cart transport.
CommercialAutonomous forklift for trailer unloading and pallet moves at the receiving dock.
CommercialGoods-to-person robot that lifts and carries a shelving pod to a picking station.
CommercialCollaborative picking AMR that carries totes and guides human pickers; the highest-volume robot in Locus's fleet.
Volume productionAutonomous lift truck for pallet movement and low-level rack placement.
CommercialDrones
6Enterprise multirotor in DJI's Matrice line for inspection, mapping and public safety.
Volume productionCaged indoor inspection drone with onboard lidar SLAM, built to bounce off walls in tanks and sewers where there is no GPS.
Volume productionResident drone-in-a-box that launches inspection missions from a fixed base under remote supervision.
CommercialAutonomous enterprise drone with onboard obstacle avoidance, multiple sensor payload options and NDAA-compliant positioning.
Volume productionTilt-rotor delivery eVTOL that takes off vertically and cruises on a wing, built for long medical and rural routes.
Pilot deploymentsSecond-generation delivery aircraft that hovers and lowers a tethered droid to place the package, rather than parachuting it.
CommercialIndustrial arms & cobots
810 kg collaborative arm in Doosan's M series, with joint torque sensing on all six axes.
Volume production10 kg payload collaborative arm in FANUC's CRX line, sold on the same controllers as its industrial robots.
Volume production12 kg collaborative arm with a built-in vision system, sold as an out-of-the-box inspection and tending cell.
Volume production20 kg payload collaborative arm with 1,750 mm reach; the largest member of the UR line at launch.
Volume productionABB's large six-axis arm family for spot welding, material handling and machine tending in high-duty lines.
Volume productionCompact industrial robot family using customized Kollmorgen AKM servo motors.
KUKA's high-payload six-axis industrial arm series, the workhorse of body-in-white lines.
Volume production12 kg six-axis handling arm in Yaskawa's GP series, aimed at machine tending and part transfer.
Volume productionAutonomous vehicles
3Class 6/7 box truck running fixed, repeated middle-mile routes; the ODD is chosen to be boring on purpose.
CommercialPurpose-built occupantless delivery vehicle — narrower than a car, with no seat to protect, which changes the whole safety case.
Pilot deploymentsProduction passenger vehicle carrying the Waymo Driver; the fleet that made driverless ride-hailing a paid service rather than a demo.
Commercial