Figure AI has pushed Figure 03 into new territory with demos of 24/7 fully autonomous operation without human supervision, including overnight runs and real-world mobility like jogging outdoors at ~2 m/s. This builds on the January 2026 Helix 02 release, enabling true full-body vision-language-action control for unpredictable settings.

CEO Brett Adcock outlined aggressive 2026 goals: deploy on production lines this year, achieve robot-built robots in 24 months, deliver superhuman speed/precision hardware upgrades, and enable home robots for long-horizon tasks (e.g., full household chores) in completely unseen environments by year-end.

Figure 03 stands 5'8" (1.72 m), weighs 61 kg, runs 5 hours on a single charge, and handles 20 kg payloads. Redesigned hands, high-frame-rate vision, and soft/washable exterior prioritize safety and dexterity for home/factory use. It's engineered for Helix AI to learn from human demos and generalize across tasks like laundry, dishwashing, and navigation.

BotQ manufacturing facility targets initial 12,000 units/year, scaling to 100,000 over four years. Recent pilots (e.g., BMW evaluations extending to Europe) test multifunctional applications, while home focus differentiates from pure industrial competitors.

While Atlas and Digit lead in automotive fleets, Figure 03's home emphasis and rapid autonomy gains position it as a frontrunner for consumer adoption. 2026 will test whether the AI-hardware combo can deliver reliable, unsupervised performance at scale.

Boston Dynamics pulled the curtain back on the production version of Atlas at CES 2026 in Las Vegas — not a prototype, not a proof of concept, but a commercial robot now rolling off a line at the company's Boston headquarters. The reveal came during Hyundai Motor Group's global media day, where an electric prototype walked onto a stage in front of a live audience for the first time ever in public, before the sleek, blue production-ready version was unveiled behind a curtain.

The announcement carried weight beyond the spectacle. Every Atlas unit scheduled for 2026 is already spoken for — fleets are heading to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) and Google DeepMind. Additional customers will be onboarded starting in early 2027, once Boston Dynamics has built confidence in fleet-scale operations.

Atlas is designed for the demands of industrial work: material handling, order fulfillment, parts sequencing, and machine tending. It operates autonomously, via teleoperator, or through a tablet steering interface — and crucially, it never needs to stop for a charge. The robot walks itself to a charging station and swaps its own battery in under three minutes.

The production Atlas stands 1.9 m (6.2 ft) tall, weighs 90 kg (198 lb), and reaches up to 2.3 m (7.5 ft). It lifts up to 50 kg (110 lb) instantaneously and 30 kg (66 lb) on a sustained basis, and operates across a temperature range of -4°F to 104°F. Its IP67 rating means it can be hosed down. The robot features human-scale hands with tactile sensing — a four-digit gripper with three fingers and an opposable thumb — engineered to handle the fine manipulation that automotive assembly demands. All limbs can be replaced in the field in under five minutes.

Alongside the hardware reveal, Boston Dynamics announced a new partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models directly into Atlas — giving the robot greater cognitive capability, adaptability, and the ability to generalize tasks across environments. DeepMind is receiving its own Atlas fleet to accelerate this work, making the collaboration as much a research deployment as a commercial one.

Once a single Atlas learns a new task, that skill replicates across the entire fleet instantly — a key differentiator in industrial environments where training time is a real cost.

Hyundai plans to use Atlas for parts sequencing by 2028, extending to component assembly by 2030 — and eventually to repetitive, heavy, and complex operations across its global manufacturing network. The RMAC serves as a "data factory," building the training datasets that will teach Atlas the full range of tasks it will eventually perform at automotive volumes.

Boston Dynamics will open Atlas orders to additional early-adopter customers in early 2027, as the 2026 production run moves from pilot to proven deployment.

Agility Robotics and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) have signed a commercial agreement to deploy seven Digit robots at the Woodstock, Ontario assembly plant — under a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) model.

The agreement follows a year-long evaluation at the same facility, run across three phases: development, proof-of-technology, and a live onsite pilot — with three Digit units involved throughout. TMMC, Toyota's largest manufacturing operation outside Japan, assessed the robots against real-world production standards before converting the engagement into a full commercial contract.

The seven Digit robots will perform one task: loading and unloading totes from automated tuggers that feed the assembly line. The scope is deliberate — Agility targets roles that are highly repetitive, physically taxing, and difficult to keep staffed.

TMMC's Woodstock plant — roughly 80 km southwest of Toronto — ran the pilot in a controlled area of the production floor, where engineers and workers observed Digit navigating an active automotive environment: forklifts, foot traffic, shifting layouts, and the constant tempo of a live supply chain.

Agility and TMMC have committed to assessing further use cases beyond tote handling — exploring how automating the most physically demanding production-line tasks could reduce strain on workers.

Looking ahead, Agility is developing a next-generation Digit with a payload capacity of up to 50 lb (22.6 kg) and improved battery life, alongside ISO functional safety certification that would make Digit the first humanoid cleared to work cooperatively alongside people with no physical barriers — targeted for mid-to-late 2026.

As tariff pressure reshapes North American auto production, TMMC's investment in humanoid automation signals confidence in its long-term Ontario operations. Agility holds a growing lead in commercial traction: TMMC joins a roster of paying customers no competitor in the humanoid space has yet matched.