NOOVIVE WIKI · PHYSICAL AI AT WORK
Observation of Humanoid Robots in Real Work 2026
Humanoids
Ready forReal Work?
The answer is not “not yet at work,” but that only two narrow-position badges have been obtained: fixed handling and component loading have crossed the demonstration threshold, while general positions still lack comparable shift reliability, anomaly closure, and unit economics Evidence.
What Counts as a Job
Define Real Work Before the Timeline
Being able to walk, grab, and perform actions in videos are not job roles. The true dividing line is: on-site, completing verifiable outputs with clear inputs, and ensuring that anomalies, costs, and responsibilities are assigned.
Figure and Digit have entered W2/W3This proves that “Humanoid Robot doing real work” is no longer future tense; but no public sample has crossed W4, and the industry has not yet proven that one robot can cover a complete position and its long-tail anomalies within one shift.
Field Evidence · FIELD EVIDENCE
The two strongest badges still cover only two narrow tasks
Customer presence, duration, and cumulative throughput must all be present to cross the demonstration threshold. Clicking on a company reveals facts, missing items, and evidence boundaries.Five Gates · THE FIVE GATES
Five Gates to an Independent Shift
The industry has moved beyond the question of whether it can be done, now focusing on whether it can be sustained, who will step in, whether it is worth it, and whether it can be replicated. The thresholds only describe the evidence status and do not rank vendors.
Shift Reliability Lab · Shift Reliability Simulation
Can 99% Survive a Full Shift
Continuous work amplifies the rate of minor failures. This does not involve any vendor data, but helps understand why 'demonstration success rate' cannot directly equate to 'unattended success'.
Probability of Failure-Free Runs = Single Success RateCycle CountCorporate Benchmark · COMPANY BENCHMARK
Six Paths Three Maturity Levels
Supply maturity assesses whether it can be built and delivered; work maturity assesses whether it can produce steadily at the customer site; economic maturity assesses whether it can be replicated at a reasonable total cost. Click any row to expand the topical analysis.
| Enterprise / Robot | Site and Task | Current Badge | Hardest Public Fact | Public Information Coverage | Operation |
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Work levels do not evaluate the upper limit of robotic technology; 'public information coverage' lists disclosed and undisclosed operational metrics without separate Evidence ratings.
Business Model · Capability · Gene
The Moat Is Six Governable Loops.
Only practices that can specify the business object, responsible entity, trigger conditions, judgment rules, actions, outputs, and feedback enter the candidate genes. Click the card to view the definition, operational loop, and observable signals.
Select a candidate gene to view its definition.
Conditional Scenarios
Not one countdown, but three conditional paths
The time window is a conditional scenario, not an industry commitment. If any one threshold remains unmet, the timeline should move later.Research Methods and Sources · Evidence & Method