Deployed is a club of two. 470 dated and sourced events, one ladder: vendor claims never move a tier; only deployments confirmed by the customer or arms-length press do.
Sort it, filter it, open any row for the dated evidence behind its tier.
The orange dot on a sparkline marks activity this month. Tiers are computed from arms-length evidence; related-party deployments are excluded. Wheeled humanoids sit on their own ladder: a wheeled base cannot take stairs, so its deployments are not comparable to a biped's.
Each page below is a filtered view of the same verified ledger, ranked by evidence rather than by announcement volume.
Every event is classified once and never re-classified upward. Two makers own most of the deployment mass. Two others own most of the promises.
Every robot page carries both, and neither stands in for the other. A tier only moves when a customer or an arms-length outlet puts a date on it.
Download the verified price table PDFEvery line on the ledger carries a date and a named source. Undated material is not indexed.
A deployment counts when the customer or an independent outlet says so. Parent-company sites do not qualify.
Targets, capacity plans and reveal dates are logged as claims. They never lift a tier.
If a deployment ends and nothing replaces it, the robot drops. The ladder is not a ratchet.
Latest milestones below; who is listed and who is filing lives on its own page. Facts only, never investment advice.
Because shipped is not the same as deployed. Take the clearest case: Unitree shipped about 5,500 humanoid units in 2025, ranked first in the world by volume (its IPO prospectus, filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange; reported by SCMP and others). So where do they go? Per that same prospectus, "universities and research institutions remain the primary customers," alongside education, cultural performances, and services. A robot in a research lab or a stage show is real, but it is not doing verified productive work for a named commercial customer, which is what a Tier 1 "Deployed" placement requires. Unitree's genuine named industrial deployments (State Grid, PetroChina, Sinopec) are its four-legged robots, not its humanoids. High volume is a real signal of market traction; we track it as a separate dimension. It is not evidence of deployment.
No. A tier is computed from arms-length, dated, verifiable evidence, in code, not assigned by hand and never sold. A maker's own claim enters as the weakest class of evidence and, on its own, can never reach Tier 1, which requires confirmation by the customer or by independent media. Paid profiles and featured listings (when offered) buy visibility, never a placement. The moment placement is purchasable, the index is worthless, including to the makers who pay.
independent media, in an arms-length relationship.
may still be the maker's word.
robots are left off.
The index is a verified core, not a scrape of every press release. A robot goes on only after its evidence has been gathered, sourced, and checked, so the core grows deliberately. If a maker is missing, it is queued, not excluded. Use the submit form to flag it or add evidence.
By who is making the claim. The customer's own word is strongest. Independent media is next. The maker's own claim is discounted. A deployment confirmed only by the maker's PR does not move a tier.
Because coverage is not deployment. Boston Dynamics Atlas has years of press and viral demos, and it sits in Tier 3, because no arms-length source documents a customer using it for real work. Such use may well exist unreported; the ledger can only rank what is on the record, and the moment a customer or independent outlet puts a date on it, the tier moves. The index measures what is verifiably in use, not what is famous.
The tier is a threshold (does one named pilot exist?); the evidence weight is a running total of how strongly, and by how many independent sources, its claims are corroborated. A robot can clear the Tier 2 bar on a single weakly-sourced pilot and still carry a low weight until better sources appear. Both numbers are shown on purpose.
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