Who are the people building humanoid robots?

Humanoid robotics is a surprisingly personal field. Behind almost every humanoid you have heard of is a named founder or a small founding team, and DEPLOY tracks them in its people graph rather than leaving them anonymous. This page reads that graph live, so the names below come straight from the reviewed record and not from anyone's memory.

The recognizable names recur across the coverage. Brett Adcock founded Figure. Bernt Bornich founded 1X. Jeff Cardenas co-founded Apptronik. Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Unitree, and the rest each have their own founders and executives, and where DEPLOY holds a reviewed record for a person, this page names them, links to their profile, and shows the role the record attributes to them.

Provenance matters here, so the page keeps it honest. A role the registry has verified against a primary source, such as a securities filing or a company's own investor materials, carries the verified marker. A role the registry holds only as reported carries the reported marker instead. That distinction is the record's, not ours, and it is shown on every row so you can weigh each attribution.

This page is deliberately about the people. If you want to compare the companies themselves, on funding, deployments, patents, and commercial progress, that lives on the humanoid leaderboard, which this page links. Here the question is simpler and more human: who are the people actually building these machines? The roster below answers it from the record.

The founders and leaders, from the record

Each row is a reviewed person linked to a humanoid maker by a role edge in DEPLOY’s people graph. Founders are marked, and every role carries the record’s own provenance.

Verified versus reported

Each column is attributed to the record’s own provenance. A verified role edge is confirmed against a primary source; a reported one is held honestly as reported.

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