Field record
Deployments, pilots, certifications, launches, and standards. Each item is a date, a short summary, and the link it came from. Deployment means a source described work in a live operation. Pilot means a trial or an announced test.
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Pilot
BMW Group says Figure 03 will start sorting parts into sequencing trolleys at Plant Spartanburg after the Figure 02 body-shop work. The release says this generation adds soft components designed for enhanced safety.
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Launch
Mantis Robotics unveiled MR-X at Automate 2026 and said the dual-arm robot lifts up to 70 lb, moves at up to 10.6 m/s, and runs without safety cages. The certification language in the company's materials names the earlier MR-1, not MR-X.
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Certification
Mantis Robotics says the MR-1 arm is certified to ISO 10218-1 and ISO 13849-1, with a CE mark, and that onboard detection lets it share a workspace with people without a cage. The "world's first" line is the company's claim.
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Launch
Hyundai says the product version of Atlas was unveiled at CES 2026 and is slated to begin parts sequencing at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Savannah in 2028. Boston Dynamics says person and vehicle detection allows fenceless guarding, with the robot pausing inside a set radius.
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Deployment
Agility Robotics says Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO's Flowery Branch facility. The post treats that run as evidence of safe human-robot teaming and does not name a third-party safety certificate.
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Deployment
Figure says Figure 02 robots worked weekday shifts at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg for 11 months, logging 1,250+ hours and loading 90,000+ parts toward 30,000+ X3 vehicles. Figure says it was retiring Figure 02 after the Figure 03 release.
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Standard
In September 2025 the Association for Advancing Automation wrote that ANSI/A3 R15.06-2025 had been published, with updated functional-safety rules and collaborative guidance drawn from ISO/TS 15066. This row cites that essay, not the standards catalog.
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Standard
ISO published ISO 10218-1:2025 for the industrial robot itself and ISO 10218-2:2025 for applications and cells, replacing the 2011 editions. Collaborative deployments are still read alongside ISO/TS 15066.
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Pilot
BMW says Figure 02 inserted sheet-metal parts during a trial of several weeks in the Spartanburg body shop. The same release says no Figure robots were at the plant on publication day and that no return date was set.
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Deployment
GXO and Agility announced a multi-year robots-as-a-service deployment of Digit, with the robot moving totes from mobile robots onto conveyors in a SPANX facility. Both describe Digit as made to work safely in spaces people use.
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Pilot
GXO says it started a lab proof of concept with Apptronik's Apollo, with a possible later step into a U.S. distribution center. GXO says a force-control design and a flexible safety zone are meant to let Apollo work around people.
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Launch
Boston Dynamics retired its hydraulic Atlas and showed an electric version it said was aimed at real work, with Hyundai as the first test partner. The 2024 posts do not describe the fenceless-guarding behavior the company published later for the product robot.
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Pilot
Sanctuary AI says it will develop general-purpose robots, including the humanoid Phoenix, for Magna manufacturing sites and that Magna invested. The announcement names neither a factory nor how many robots would be involved.
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Pilot
Apptronik and Mercedes-Benz announced a pilot to try Apollo on logistics inside Mercedes factories, including moving assembly kits and kitted totes. The release describes use cases being explored, not a finished production shift.
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Pilot
Amazon says it will begin testing Agility's Digit at a robotics R&D site south of Seattle, starting with empty-tote recycling. Amazon says the robot could work collaboratively with employees. The post calls this a test.
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Launch
Apptronik unveiled Apollo, a humanoid about 5 ft 8 in and 160 lb with a stated 55 lb lift, for buildings designed around people. The company says its force control is meant to keep operation around people closer to a cobot than to a caged industrial arm.
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Launch
Figure left stealth and unveiled Figure 01, a humanoid it aimed at manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail. The announcement does not describe a safety certificate or a customer deployment.
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