Mainsheet began tracking humanoid robotics closely in early 2024 following Figure AI’s deployment announcement with BMW in Spartanburg. While Agility Robotics had already demonstrated logistics applications through pilots with Amazon and GXO, the Figure-BMW partnership marked the first widely publicized humanoid integration inside a major automotive production environment. The significance was not the scale of deployment, which remained limited, but the expansion of credible use cases beyond warehouse logistics into industrial manufacturing.
