Humanoids at work are still small trials: 90,000 car parts loaded at BMW, 100,000 crates moved
Humanoid jobs are still narrow trials, with figures from the makers. Agility, a top US maker, sold $1.8M in 2025 and lost $138M.
The clearest evidence of humanoids doing paid work comes from two US companies, and both figures are their own. Figure says its Figure 02 robots worked 10-hour shifts on BMW’s assembly line in Spartanburg, South Carolina, loading sheet-metal parts. Over an 11-month deployment they loaded more than 90,000 parts for over 30,000 BMW X3 cars. Figure does not say how many robots took part.
Agility Robotics says its Digit robot has moved more than 100,000 totes (plastic crates) at GXO’s warehouse in Flowery Branch, Georgia. In its September 2026 merger filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Agility says Digit is deployed or committed at nine customer sites. The same filing shows how small the business still is: $1.8 million in sales in 2025 (up from $0.3 million in 2024) and a net loss of $138 million.
Robot numbers are growing, but mostly outside paid work. Figure says it had delivered more than 350 Figure 03 robots by April 2026, for its own research and data collection as well as for customer sites and homes. IDC, a market tracker, described Figure, Agility and Apptronik as still largely in pilot testing in 2025, with shipments in the tens of units. In China, 73.6% of Unitree’s humanoid revenue in the first nine months of 2025 came from research and education, and 9% from industry.
What it means
Humanoids can do some repetitive factory and warehouse jobs at a handful of sites. But a leading US maker still loses far more than it earns, and US makers shipped tens of robots in 2025, not thousands. That is too few to change how most factories or warehouses work today.
Caveats
- The BMW and warehouse numbers come from the robot makers, with no independent audit. Neither says how many robots were involved or how often people stepped in; Agility’s fleet software includes remote control “when required”.
- These are narrow, repetitive jobs (loading parts, moving crates) of a kind that conventional automation also does.
- Over half of Agility’s 2025 sales ($1.1 million) were to a related party, one of its investors.
- Agility’s filing also lists more than $300 million in committed multi-year orders for its next model, Digit 5. Those are future orders, not revenue.