A pilot is a limited test. A deployment is a robot doing useful work in a real operating environment. A scaled deployment is many robots doing that work repeatedly enough to matter. Those are not the same thing.
Humanoid robotics has many pilots because pilots are the safe way to learn. Customers can test workflows, robot companies can collect data, and both sides can issue a press release without claiming the system is ready for broad rollout.
The key question is what happens after the pilot. Does the customer expand the program? Does the robot move from staged tasks to ordinary operations? Does it operate without constant engineering support? Does it produce measurable labor, safety, throughput, or uptime benefits?
On HumanoidRoster, pilots are evidence, but they are not treated like mass adoption. A robot with named customers and repeated field use deserves more credit than a robot with only lab demos. A robot with scaled commercial use deserves more credit still.