An honest tracker of humanoid robots.

Cyborgs of Earth is a public tracker of humanoid robot progress. Every claim is tied to a source. Updated regularly.

Humanoids are not there yet. For most of the industries they're being pointed at today — warehousing, manufacturing, retail, hospitality — they are usually not the best solution. Purpose-built automation almost always wins on cost, reliability, and time to value.

We say that out loud because pretending otherwise wastes everyone's time.

Even the vendors building humanoids know this. They're building them because the underlying problem — general-purpose embodied intelligence — is the challenge that excites the best engineers in the field. Most know that in the short term they probably are not the right solution. They are building for a long-term journey.

That journey is interesting on its own. It deserves a public, source-backed record. That's what this site is.

The Cyborg Index is built only from publicly available deployment information. Some programs are almost certainly further along than the index shows — Tesla Optimus and XPeng IRON are obvious examples — because their real progress isn't public and we won't infer what we can't source.

The index is deliberately anchored to actual, named, observable deployments. That biases it against well-funded internal programs. We think the bias is honest. A capability ranking that counted private demos as proof would be worse than no ranking at all.

This is not a leaderboard of winners and losers. Capability has dimensions we barely understand yet — tactile sensing the way a human knows where their own body is, world models, long-horizon planning, social grounding. Anyone shipping a working humanoid right now is doing something genuinely hard.

Vendors also have wildly different funding, headcount, and time on the problem. Individually almost all of them are doing remarkable work in their own context. The point of this site is to track the path, not to declare a winner.

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