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Hexagon's AEON robot is delivering materials and testing battery work at BMW's first humanoid pilot in Europe. BMW hasn't published any results from Leipzig.
BMW says, in its own words, that its Figure 02 pilot supported production of more than 30,000 X3s over ten months. Its successor, Figure 03, has started a parts-sorting demonstration. There's still no cost data, and no word on whether the first robot hit its speed target.
Figure says its Figure 02 robot ran 10-hour weekday shifts on a BMW body-shop line and loaded more than 90,000 parts before being retired. It published its speed and accuracy targets but not whether the robot met them.
Agility Robotics says Digit has moved a six-figure number of totes at GXO's Flowery Branch site and calls that proof of return on investment. The post gives no time period, robot count, uptime or cost.
A BMW spokesperson told Fortune a single Figure robot worked at Spartanburg at any given time, and only outside production hours until March. Figure's CEO had described a fleet doing "end-to-end operations."
The contract logistics giant calls its warehouses a lab for humanoids. Its most advanced pilot, Agility Robotics' Digit, has two units working in one facility out of more than 1,000.
A Figure 02 robot placed sheet-metal parts into welding fixtures during a trial at Plant Spartanburg. BMW calls it a success and says it's still working out where humanoids fit. No cost, speed or uptime figures were released.
At its Oct. 20 investor day, Kroger laid out an online growth plan built on 2,700 stores, faster delivery and in-store automation. Ocado's name didn't come up once.
THG Fulfil says the UK sportswear chain's new AutoStore grid beats its old manual warehouse. The figures come from the vendors, and they describe the deal two ways.
CVS says hundreds of robots now store and retrieve health and beauty products for its stores, while staff sort them. Its sorting vendor reports bigger gains, using a different site name and two versions of its cost figure.
Kroger's filings put the charge at $2.585 billion and say the network wasn't meeting "operational or financial expectations." The settlement also covers a planned site in Charlotte that won't be built.
The grocer says its Ocado-built network isn't meeting financial expectations. Three sites close in January, state notices cover more than 1,600 jobs, and orders move to stores and delivery apps.
The New York Times reported internal plans to automate 75% of operations. A day later, Amazon showed new robots and an AI agent, and in February 2026 it said one of those robots was no longer in use.
Latin America's biggest online marketplace says 125 new robots shuttle products between warehouse zones. Its earlier robot fleet came from China's Quicktron; it hasn't named this one's maker.
Amazon says Vulcan can handle most of the items it stocks and that DeepFleet will speed up its robots. The figures come from Amazon, and we found no independent check of them.
Public patent records show Rosendin signed its robot patents over to ULC Technologies in June 2025. In February 2026, ULC assigned them, plus three related applications, to Nextpower, the company formerly called Nextracker. Nobody has announced a deal.
The contractor says the robot halved a setting crew, at somewhat lower output, and cut panel breakage to "virtually zero." It also calls the machine a "working prototype," and building robots isn't its business.
Rosendin and ULC Technologies spent a year and a half developing a three-robot system, ENR reports, and it has had a year of field trials. Its SVP says the crew got smaller and the robot works. He also says the most expensive part was overbuilt.
Service came back in September after what Waymo calls a flood-zone audit. The software recall it filed in May still lists only an interim fix, and we found no final remedy on file.
A year after Waymo promised driverless rides in 2026, no operator has applied for London's consent, TfL says. The only bookable robotaxis carry a safety driver.
The two-seater lacks permanently attached manual controls such as a steering wheel and pedals, NHTSA says. The agency wants Tesla to explain, under oath, how it certified the car as meeting federal safety standards.
After more than a year of supervised testing in seven central wards, Waymo, GO and Nihon Kotsu say paid rides with no one at the wheel could start next year. Permits come first.
State staff approved Waymo's bigger map and its Ojai vehicle, built by a unit of China's Geely group, and set aside protests from San Diego's transit agency. Waymo says the rollout will be gradual.
NHTSA's two-year exemption caps Zoox at 2,500 vehicles a year. Fares began Aug. 10, and a local taxi driver says he earns about half what he once did.
Employees ride first and the public "soon," Waymo says. Denver will be among the first cities to get the Ojai, a robotaxi built by a unit of China's Geely group.
Tesla announced Dallas and Houston days before its first-quarter results, and Orlando and Tampa around its second-quarter call. Crowdsourced counts show a handful of unsupervised cars in each.
The unoccupied robotaxi braked hard and stopped, then was reversed under remote guidance. Months earlier, a Zoox stalled in a busy Strip intersection.
An empty Waymo in San Antonio slowed but didn't stop at floodwater on a 40-mph road. A month later, flooding in Atlanta led Waymo to pause service in five cities.
Waymo's 11th robotaxi city launched with "dozens of vehicles," and a Lyft subsidiary is slated to take on charging, cleaning and repairs. Lyft says half of its depot hires so far have been current or former Lyft drivers.
Federal investigators say a Waymo was the first car to stop for an Austin school bus in January, then drove past after a remote assistance agent in Michigan said it wasn't a school bus with active signals. Austin's school district counts at least four violations after Waymo's November software fix, The Verge reported.
At a March 2 hearing, city officials said stalled robotaxis delayed an ambulance and left first responders moving cars. Waymo apologized but declined to share key staffing numbers.
Seven months after launch, Tesla began offering paid rides with no employee in the car. Videos show another Tesla trailing behind, and Tesla says only "a few" cars are unsupervised.
Moove, the outside company hired in 2024, runs the depots. Rides start with a waitlist of about 10,000 people, inside a 60-square-mile area that skips South Beach and the airport.
Waymo's filing says a software change led its cars to decide they were "impeding" the bus and pull away. Austin's school district documented 19 incidents, NHTSA says, and has asked Waymo to stop operating at pick-up and drop-off times.
When a substation fire cut power to much of the city, Waymo's robotaxis stopped at dead traffic lights and waited for remote confirmation. The company paused service and says a software update is coming.
Some public riders in the Bay Area, Phoenix and Los Angeles can now be matched with freeway trips, and service stretches down the Peninsula to San Jose and its airport. Waymo says freeways cut ride times by up to half.
The plan depends on a pilot scheme the UK government had proposed but not yet put in place. Waymo gave no price, fleet size or launch date.
Any adult with the app can ride along the Strip, but only between five stops and without paying. Zoox says it needs regulatory approval before it can charge.
Lyft's Flexdrive unit is to clean, charge and maintain the fleet, and Waymo's cars are to appear in the Lyft app later. None of it had started when the deal was announced.
California regulators say Tesla hasn't applied for the permits needed to carry passengers in an autonomous vehicle. So the Bay Area service uses human drivers running Tesla's software.
At least five Waymos were destroyed during protests against immigration raids. Waymo left downtown, then paused service across the city ahead of the "No Kings" marches.
After a decade of promises, Tesla began offering invited riders trips in self-driving Model Ys in a small part of South Austin. Within a day, videos of erratic driving drew questions from federal regulators.
Atlanta's driverless service runs only on the Uber app, across a bigger area than Austin's. The companies still haven't said how many cars serve it or what the deal is worth.
Waymo's recall filing lists 16 collisions with chains, gates and similar barriers, none with injuries. It says a software update reached the whole fleet by Dec. 26, 2024, months before the recall was filed.
Selected riders in Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale can now hail robotaxis around the clock, adding 27 square miles to Waymo's Bay Area service.
Waymo's driverless cars joined Uber in Austin at no extra cost over UberX and similar rides. Neither company said how many cars, or what the deal is worth.
CEO Mary Barra said the cost of running a robotaxi fleet "[is] not our core business." About 1,000 Cruise staff are gone, and the rest will work on driver-assist features for cars people own.
The ride count rose roughly sevenfold from the late-2023 total, CNBC reported, in the same month GM shut its Cruise robotaxi unit. Waymo's next vehicle is being built with China's Geely.
A fleet-services startup with roots in Africa will clean, charge and maintain Waymo's robotaxis in Phoenix, then build depots for a planned 2026 launch in Miami. Neither side disclosed terms.
A study run with the reinsurer compared liability claims over 25.3 million driverless miles with Swiss Re's human-driver baselines. Waymo published the results; the paper had been submitted to a journal but not yet published.
A $500,000 criminal fine follows a $1.5 million civil penalty from the national road-safety regulator. Both turn on what Cruise left out of its report: the car dragged the woman more than 20 feet.
About 100 driverless cars now serve roughly 80 square miles of LA County. They stay off freeways, and city officials want more safety oversight.
The fix for the observer problem was a new truck, not a change of mind at PACCAR. In September, Aurora targeted 200 driverless trucks by year-end; on Oct. 28 it said it now expects to pass 200 by the end of February. Q2 revenue was $2 million.
A year after launch, Aurora says it runs 10 routes across Texas and into Arizona and has added McLane for restaurant supply. Its biggest customer plan so far, with Hirschbach, is a non-binding memorandum.
Gatik's investor Koch says the startup's medium-duty trucks now carry retail freight with no driver or safety observer. The figures behind that come from Gatik.
The Texas launch is real: a driverless truck running Dallas to Houston for paying customers. A truck maker's request means a non-driving observer now sits up front.
An oilfield sand supplier says it owns Kodiak-equipped trucks, subscribes to Kodiak's driverless system and runs them with nobody aboard off-road in the Permian Basin. The figures come from the two companies.
Four of the five promised metros (Atlanta, Houston, Orlando and Charlotte) are now live. Tampa isn't. Meanwhile the target has grown to more than 270 stores, now set for 2027.
Zipline hired executives from Tesla, Waymo and Uber and says it has passed 2.5 million commercial deliveries. Its growth and safety figures are its own.
A year after launching with Walmart, Zipline says customers near Rowlett can order from 16 brands, from Crumbl to Popeyes. Its growth figures are its own.
A proposed Part 108 would replace case-by-case waivers with permits and certificates for delivery, farm, survey and public-safety drones. The FAA did not put a dollar figure on the benefits.
The plan adds Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando and Tampa to the 18 Dallas-Fort Worth stores already flying. Walmart says it has made more than 150,000 drone deliveries since 2021.
Customers within about 2 miles of a Mesquite, Texas Supercenter can get up to 8 pounds of goods dropped by drone. Walmart will set the price later.
The company says campus work taught it to run robots at scale. At least two campuses lost service within a week of the announcement.
Dot rides bike lanes, roads and sidewalks at up to 20 mph. DoorDash gave specs and a launch area, but not costs or merchant counts.
The university says students asked for it. What it pays, and what students pay, isn't in the release.
Serve opened Uptown Dallas to robot delivery through Uber Eats. In the same quarter, its cost of revenue was $1.9 million against $440,465 in revenue.
Serve Robotics brought its delivery robots to Miami Beach and Brickell for Shake Shack and Mister O1 orders. It didn't say how many robots, or what a delivery costs.
About 1,200 orders in, the pilot has student fans, a few-dollar fee and a city council member asking what it means for delivery workers.
TRIC Robotics runs tractor-sized machines that shine UV-C light on strawberry plants and vacuum up bugs. Growers pay per treatment, not for the robot. The results so far are the company's own.
Deere says its second-generation autonomy kit will run spraying tractors through orchards with no one on board. It hasn't said what the kit costs or when farmers can order one.
Three and a half years into a four-year pilot, the city says four robots ended manual hauling of 200-kilo carts at night. Its own report also says the robots still aren't fully used.
Swiss Post supplies the robots as a service to the city-owned hospital. They haul supply carts from the basement to the floors while the corridors are empty, Swiss Post says. Every number so far comes from Swiss Post.
The Swedish supplier says it has converted every haul truck at the Pilbara mine to its brand-agnostic autonomy system, with 60 of 78 in autonomous operation and the rest due by December. The project ran years behind its first timeline, and the fleet count changed along the way.
A pilot found stale paper price tags, Albert's staff say. How many stores will get the robots, and at what cost, wasn't said.
The salad chain ended 2024 with 12 automated "Infinite Kitchens" and plans to roughly triple that in 2025. Its own filing warns that Chinese-made parts and new tariffs could make more units too costly.
Boston Dynamics' four-legged robot inspects car bodies at the end of an almost fully automated weld shop. Hyundai owns both the plant and the robot maker, and it hasn't published results.
The city opened a real-time intelligence center and began sending a Skydio drone to 911 calls, sometimes ahead of officers. A privacy group objects.
At its Oct. 20 investor day, Kroger laid out an online growth plan built on 2,700 stores, faster delivery and in-store automation. Ocado's name didn't come up once.
Four of the five promised metros (Atlanta, Houston, Orlando and Charlotte) are now live. Tampa isn't. Meanwhile the target has grown to more than 270 stores, now set for 2027.
Service came back in September after what Waymo calls a flood-zone audit. The software recall it filed in May still lists only an interim fix, and we found no final remedy on file.
A year after Waymo promised driverless rides in 2026, no operator has applied for London's consent, TfL says. The only bookable robotaxis carry a safety driver.
THG Fulfil says the UK sportswear chain's new AutoStore grid beats its old manual warehouse. The figures come from the vendors, and they describe the deal two ways.
The two-seater lacks permanently attached manual controls such as a steering wheel and pedals, NHTSA says. The agency wants Tesla to explain, under oath, how it certified the car as meeting federal safety standards.
The fix for the observer problem was a new truck, not a change of mind at PACCAR. In September, Aurora targeted 200 driverless trucks by year-end; on Oct. 28 it said it now expects to pass 200 by the end of February. Q2 revenue was $2 million.
After more than a year of supervised testing in seven central wards, Waymo, GO and Nihon Kotsu say paid rides with no one at the wheel could start next year. Permits come first.
Hexagon's AEON robot is delivering materials and testing battery work at BMW's first humanoid pilot in Europe. BMW hasn't published any results from Leipzig.
State staff approved Waymo's bigger map and its Ojai vehicle, built by a unit of China's Geely group, and set aside protests from San Diego's transit agency. Waymo says the rollout will be gradual.
NHTSA's two-year exemption caps Zoox at 2,500 vehicles a year. Fares began Aug. 10, and a local taxi driver says he earns about half what he once did.
Employees ride first and the public "soon," Waymo says. Denver will be among the first cities to get the Ojai, a robotaxi built by a unit of China's Geely group.