{
  "meta": {
    "dataset": "MachineWorth manufacturer records (seed)",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
  },
  "manufacturers": [
    {
      "slug": "figure-ai",
      "name": "Figure AI",
      "hq": "Sunnyvale, California, USA",
      "founded": "2022",
      "focus": "General-purpose industrial humanoids",
      "summary": "Figure develops general-purpose humanoids for industrial work and is notable for a documented multi-month deployment at BMW. Its evidence profile is among the strongest in the humanoid category, though most economic terms remain private.",
      "evidence_note": "Deployment claims are manufacturer-reported and partly corroborated by the customer.",
      "website": "https://www.figure.ai",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    },
    {
      "slug": "agility-robotics",
      "name": "Agility Robotics",
      "hq": "Salem, Oregon / Pittsburgh, USA",
      "founded": "2015",
      "focus": "Logistics-first bipedal robots (Digit)",
      "summary": "Agility builds Digit, a warehouse-focused bipedal robot offered commercially including via Robots-as-a-Service. It has some of the clearest paid-deployment evidence in the sector (GXO, with reported live throughput).",
      "evidence_note": "Named-customer RaaS deployment; throughput manufacturer-reported.",
      "website": "https://www.agilityrobotics.com",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    },
    {
      "slug": "apptronik",
      "name": "Apptronik",
      "hq": "Austin, Texas, USA",
      "founded": "2016",
      "focus": "Modular industrial humanoid (Apollo)",
      "summary": "Apptronik develops Apollo, a modular industrial humanoid, with commercial pilot agreements including Mercedes-Benz. Strong partner roster; published throughput still limited.",
      "evidence_note": "Customer-confirmed pilot agreements; limited public performance data.",
      "website": "https://apptronik.com",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    },
    {
      "slug": "tesla",
      "name": "Tesla",
      "hq": "Austin, Texas, USA",
      "founded": "2003",
      "focus": "Optimus humanoid (internal development)",
      "summary": "Tesla is developing the Optimus humanoid, primarily for internal use initially. Enormous visibility and ambitious price targets, but essentially no external customer-confirmed deployment evidence to date.",
      "evidence_note": "High narrative, low independent verification. Price figures are stated future targets.",
      "website": "https://www.tesla.com/optimus",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    },
    {
      "slug": "unitree-robotics",
      "name": "Unitree Robotics",
      "hq": "Hangzhou, China",
      "founded": "2016",
      "focus": "Publicly-priced quadrupeds and humanoids (G1, H1)",
      "summary": "Unitree is unusual for publishing real prices on its humanoids (G1, H1). Its machines are largely research and demonstration platforms rather than validated industrial workers, which makes them useful price benchmarks rather than deployment references.",
      "evidence_note": "Public pricing (manufacturer-reported); limited industrial deployment evidence.",
      "website": "https://www.unitree.com",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    },
    {
      "slug": "1x-technologies",
      "name": "1X Technologies",
      "hq": "Moss, Norway / USA",
      "founded": "2014",
      "focus": "Consumer/home humanoid (NEO)",
      "summary": "1X develops NEO, a lightweight home humanoid offered for preorder at a public price. Early operation is expected to rely on teleassistance, an important operating-cost caveat for any economic analysis.",
      "evidence_note": "Public preorder pricing; supervision dependency is a material caveat.",
      "website": "https://www.1x.tech",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    },
    {
      "slug": "boston-dynamics",
      "name": "Boston Dynamics",
      "hq": "Waltham, Massachusetts, USA",
      "founded": "1992",
      "focus": "Spot (inspection), Stretch (warehouse), Atlas (humanoid)",
      "summary": "Boston Dynamics is the most 'productized' vendor in the dataset: Spot and Stretch are commercially sold with real installed bases and, for Spot, a public price. The electric Atlas humanoid is earlier. Owned by Hyundai Motor Group.",
      "evidence_note": "Commercial products with public/enterprise pricing and real deployments; Atlas is early.",
      "website": "https://bostondynamics.com",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sanctuary-ai",
      "name": "Sanctuary AI",
      "hq": "Vancouver, Canada",
      "founded": "2018",
      "focus": "Dexterity-focused humanoid (Phoenix)",
      "summary": "Sanctuary AI focuses on dexterous manipulation and teleoperation-to-autonomy with its Phoenix humanoid. Notable demonstrations; limited sustained, independent deployment evidence.",
      "evidence_note": "Demonstration tier; production economics not validated publicly.",
      "website": "https://sanctuary.ai",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-09-04"
    }
  ]
}