Robotics & Automation · Recorded milestone
Factory humanoid pilots
Recorded year2024
General-purpose humanoid robots begin paid trials on assembly lines.
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- Industrial robotRecorded · 1961enables
- Lithium-ion batteryRecorded · 1991enables
- MEMS sensorsRecorded · 1993requires
- Honda ASIMORecorded · 2000enables
- DARPA Robotics ChallengeRecorded · 2015enables
- Transformer architectureRecorded · 2017enables
- Sim-to-real robot learningRecorded · 2019enables
- Robot foundation modelsRecorded · 2023enables
Led to
- Professional robot leaguesRecorded · 2025enables
- Robot vacuum with a tidying armRecorded · 2025enables
- Home humanoids demonstrate selected choresRecorded · 2026enables
- Robot beats a human world recordRecorded · 2026enables
- Robot guide for blind peopleForecast · ~2027enables
- Fully robotic recycling plantsForecast · ~2028enables
- Humanoids on full factory shiftsForecast · ~2028enables
- Robot-made clothes on demandForecast · ~2031enables
- One-week robot home retrofitForecast · ~2034enables
- Taxes on automationForecast · ~2038enables
- Robot command lockdownForecast · ~2042enables
- Fully autonomous supply chainsForecast · ~2045enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.