The current players and their real deployments
Several companies have working humanoid hardware today. Boston Dynamics' Atlas, originally famous for parkour and backflip demo videos, has been rebuilt as an all-electric platform and is being tested on manipulation and logistics tasks in partnership with Hyundai. Figure AI has placed its Figure robots in limited pilot programs, including with BMW on assembly line tasks, and has paired its hardware with foundation models for more general instruction-following. Tesla's Optimus is furthest from mass deployment but Tesla has stated ambitions to use it inside its own factories first, then eventually sell it. Agility Robotics' Digit, arguably the most commercially mature of the group, is doing narrow, repetitive warehouse tasks like moving totes and unloading trailers for logistics customers.
The common thread across all of these: none of them are doing open-ended, general-purpose work yet. They're piloted on narrow, well-defined tasks in controlled or semi-controlled environments, usually logistics or light manufacturing, with human supervision or intervention still very much in the loop.