Every humanoid robot maker has a date. Only two have a checkout. You can buy a humanoid robot today from Unitree, or pay a deposit to 1X, as we set out in our piece on what a humanoid robot costs. Figure, Boston Dynamics and Agility Robotics have each published something different in 2026: a production rate, a sold-out year and an availability window. Read closely, those three statements say when the industrial humanoids will be sold, and to whom.
When will Boston Dynamics sell Atlas to other customers?
Boston Dynamics launched the production version of Atlas on 5 January 2026 with an announcement that answered the availability question before anyone asked it. All Atlas deployments for 2026 “are already fully committed”, it said, with fleets scheduled to ship to Hyundai’s Robotics Metaplant Application Center and Google DeepMind. A later line sets the next date: “The company plans to add additional customers in early 2027.”
The announcement also explains who is first in line. It describes Hyundai Motor Group as “Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder” and says Hyundai “is preparing to deploy tens of thousands of Boston Dynamics’ robots into its own manufacturing facilities.” It mentions Hyundai’s $26 billion investment in US operations that includes a new robotics factory “capable of producing 30,000 robots per year”.
What the announcement leaves out is just as clear. There is no price and no count of Atlas units built or shipped. The 30,000 is the capacity of a factory that has been announced, not a number of robots delivered, and it covers robots in general rather than Atlas alone. For anyone outside Hyundai and Google DeepMind, the earliest date on the record is early 2027.
How many humanoid robots is Figure making in 2026?
Figure’s answer came in a production update on 29 April 2026. It reported “delivering over 350 of our third generation humanoid robots” and raising its production rate “from 1 Figure 03 per day to 1 per hour”, a 24 times improvement in under 120 days. It gave three more figures: an end-of-line first pass yield of over 80 per cent, a battery line that has “shipped over 500 battery packs” at a 99.3 per cent first-pass yield, and “over 9,000 actuators across more than 10 distinct SKUs”.
Figure’s own numbers from 29 April 2026. Only the yellow bar counts robots; the grey bars count parts.
Only the first of those numbers counts robots. The battery packs and actuators are parts, and parts run ahead of finished machines in any ramp. The yield figure is the most candid line in the update. A first pass yield of over 80 per cent means that, at the time, fewer than one robot in five needed rework before it left the line.
The update also says where the robots went, in general terms: “Robots shipped from BotQ are allocated to internal research and development groups, data collection, efforts for robots to perform end-to-end housework, and commercial use-case development.” It names no customer and does not say whether any of the 350 were sold. Most of the destinations on that list are inside Figure.
Figure 03 has no public price, as we noted in our piece on what a humanoid robot costs. The update is a record of manufacturing. It does not offer the robot to the public, and it does not say when it will.
When is Agility’s Digit 5 available to buy?
Agility Robotics is the only one of the three to publish a general availability date. Its Digit 5 announcement of 15 September 2026 says early access “is expected to begin in the first half of 2027, with general availability for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution operators expected by the end of 2027.” The release names no price.
Behind the timetable is a factory. Agility Robotics says its RoboFab plant, at full capacity, “is designed to produce up to 10,000 Digit robots per year and employ more than 500 people”. That is a design figure, and the company presents it as one. Spread across a year it comes to about 27 robots a day, slightly above the rate Figure reported reaching in April.
Figure’s two rates are reported output. Agility’s is a design capacity, 10,000 a year divided by 365, not robots built.
The buyers are named too. General availability is for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution operators, which is the same kind of customer Boston Dynamics is serving through Hyundai.
Who can buy a humanoid robot in 2026, and who has to wait
The three statements count three different things. Boston Dynamics counts a year’s allocation. Figure counts deliveries and parts. Agility Robotics counts a factory’s design capacity and a calendar. None of them counts sales to the public, because none of the three is selling to the public, and none publishes a price.
Tesla belongs on the same list. Its July filing, which we read in our piece on how many humanoid robots shipped, says the first Optimus builds will go to its own Optimus Academy for training data. Figure’s robots go largely to its own teams, and Tesla’s go entirely to its own. For two of the best-known names in the category, the first customer is the company itself.
The humanoid sales figures that makers have had to file belong to Unitree and UBTech, which we read in the same piece. And the specifications behind these promises are harder to compare than they look, as our piece on how much a humanoid robot can lift shows: the three makers do not even define a payload the same way.
For a buyer, that leaves a simple test. A date is a plan. A deposit is a transaction. In September 2026 the industrial humanoids have dates, and only the robots aimed at homes, labs and developers have transactions.
The next dates on this record are early 2027, when Boston Dynamics plans to add customers, and the first half of 2027, when Agility Robotics expects early access to begin. That is when an industrial humanoid first becomes something a company outside its maker’s own circle can buy.