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Which humanoid robots are actually working in car factories?
14 humanoid programmes across 13 carmakers are on the record inside automaker plants. 8 are operational and 6 are still pilots. Every row names the stage it has actually reached, because the fleet numbers in the headlines are mostly targets.
The short answer
Humanoids are in car plants, but almost always one or a handful at a time, on one narrow task. The clearest current example is Renault, which runs a single Calvin-40 from Wandercraft in the wheel workshop at Douai, moving tires. Renault co-developed the robot and owns a minority stake in its maker, and states a roadmap of 350 robots across French and Spanish plants by the end of 2027. One is at work today. That gap, between what runs and what is planned, is what this page keeps visible.
Every programme on record
One row per automaker programme. Where a plant has both an early pilot record and a later operating record, the canonical row is shown so a single programme is not counted twice. Stage comes from the deployment record; follow any row for its sources.
Common questions
Which humanoid robots are actually working in car factories?
DEPLOY holds 14 humanoid programmes inside automaker plants across 13 carmakers. 8 are recorded as operational and 6 are still pilots. The distinction matters: a pilot is a robot being tried on one task at one site, not a fleet.
What is Renault using?
Renault Group runs Calvin-40, a headless industrial humanoid co-developed with Wandercraft, in the wheel workshop at its Douai plant, where it handles tires on the Renault 5 E-Tech line. Renault took a minority stake in Wandercraft in June 2025. It is recorded as a pilot: one unit, with Renault describing it as being tested.
Why are the big fleet numbers not in this table?
Because they have not happened yet. Renault states a roadmap of about 10 Calvin robots by the end of 2026 and 350 across its French and Spanish plants by the end of 2027, and other programmes carry similar targets. DEPLOY records a robot when it is at work, not when it is promised, so roadmap figures stay in the record as stated plans and never enter the count.
Is a pilot the same as a deployment?
No. A pilot is a limited real-world trial, usually one robot on one task at one site, and it can quietly end. Operational means the robot is doing real economic work for the customer. Both are shown here with the stage named, because collapsing them is the single most common way humanoid adoption gets overstated.
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