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Humanoid Robot Tracker
Companionship is starting to grow a body. The companies below have raised tens of billions of dollars to put humanoid robots in homes, shops, and factories — and their announcements run years ahead of reality. This tracker separates the two: what you can actually order today, at what real price, and which robots are verifiably doing work versus performing demos.
Last updated July 2026. Free to cite with attribution to CompanionRater. Every claim links to its source. We have not tested these machines hands-on, so — unlike our app reviews — there are no ratings here: status and evidence only.
The state of play
humanoid robots were shipped worldwide in all of 2025 (Omdia) — the entire industry is smaller than one mid-size app's user base.
is the cheapest way to get a humanoid into your home today: 1X's NEO subscription (or $20,000 outright), with US deliveries starting in 2026.
humanoids an individual can order today and actually receive: Unitree's G1 (~$16k), EngineAI's PM01 (~$19–26k), and Booster's T1 (from ~$9k) — all developer platforms, none a household helper.
buys a pre-order of Weave's Isaac 1 (or $449/mo) — the laundry-folding home robot that ended NEO's monopoly on orderable home robots in July 2026.
is the real floor for robot ownership: Hugging Face's open-source Reachy Mini companion kit — the cheapest robot with a serious ecosystem behind it.
Figure's private valuation — the most valuable humanoid maker on earth, for a company whose robots you cannot buy at any price.
units shipped by AGIBOT in 2025 — 39% of the global market, making a two-year-old Chinese company the world's #1 humanoid shipper.
Atlas robots Hyundai plans to deploy in its own car plants before selling any externally — the biggest committed humanoid order anywhere.
Home & companion robots
The robots aimed at living rooms rather than loading docks — our beat. Note how thin this list is: two pre-orders, one beta, one developer kit, and one promise.
| Robot | Status | Can you buy it? | Real-world evidence | Backing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEO 1X Technologies · US (Norwegian roots) Bipedal humanoid | Pre-order | Yes $20,000 Early Access (priority 2026 delivery) or $499/mo subscription | Consumer pre-orders open since Oct 2025 ($200 deposit); first US home deliveries slated for 2026, other markets from 2027. 1X Technologies · 1X Technologies · The Robot Report · PCMag · The New Yorker | Private |
| Isaac 1 Weave Robotics · US Wheeled home robot with arms | Pre-order | Yes $7,999 up-front or $449/mo subscription ($250 refundable deposit) | Pre-orders opened Jul 2026 ($250 refundable deposit); California deliveries slated for fall 2026, broader US through 2027. | Private (San Francisco startup) |
| Memo Sunday Robotics · US Wheeled home robot with arms | Announced | No Not publicly priced yet | Beta program deliveries announced for late 2026; 500+ 'Memory Developers' record daily household demonstrations to train it. | $1.15bn valuation ($165M Series B led by Coatue, Mar 2026; ~$200M total raised) |
| Optimus Tesla · US Bipedal humanoid | Announced | No Not for sale; Tesla has projected $20–30k when commercial sales open (~late 2027) | Fremont production line (converted from Model S/X) targeted a late-July/August 2026 start with no volume commitment; Musk conceded in Jan 2026 that zero Optimus robots were doing useful work. | Part of Tesla; Fremont line targets 1M units/yr capacity long-term |
| G1 (plus R1 / H1) Unitree Robotics · China Bipedal humanoid | Shipping | Yes G1 from ~$16,000 | 2025 revenue ¥1.71bn (~$248M), up 335% YoY, with net profit up ~674%; filed for a ~$610M Shanghai STAR Market IPO in Mar 2026. | Profitable; IPO in registration (targeting ~$610–618M raise) |
NEO — 1X Technologies
The first humanoid you can actually order for your home — 1X pitches it for chores and everyday help, with US deliveries starting in 2026.
Isaac 1 — Weave Robotics
The second orderable home robot — wheeled, laundry-first, and less than half NEO's price, with deliveries starting in California fall 2026.
Memo — Sunday Robotics
Purpose-built for households (dishes, tidying) rather than factories — beta deliveries to real homes were slated to start late 2026.
Optimus — Tesla
The loudest promise of a general home robot — but as of mid-2026 none are sold, and Musk himself says early output will be 'extremely slow.'
G1 (plus R1 / H1) — Unitree Robotics
The best-known humanoid an individual can order today and actually receive — but it's a developer/research platform, not a housekeeper. Nothing about it does chores out of the box.
Social & companion robots
Robots whose entire job is company — the segment closest to what this site covers. The pattern to notice: everything that actually ships here is non-humanoid, and the most famous promise was shelved.
| Robot | Status | Can you buy it? | Real-world evidence | Backing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElliQ Intuition Robotics · Israel / US Tabletop social robot | Shipping | Yes $249 one-time + $39–59/mo membership (lease model) | Thousands deployed across the US via healthcare providers and aging agencies; approved as a Washington state Medicaid 'Smart Care Device' (Mar 2026). | Private (Intuition Robotics, founded 2016) |
| LOVOT 3.0 GROOVE X · Japan Wheeled emotional-companion robot | Shipping | Yes ¥577,500 (~$3,800) + required plan from ¥9,900/mo (~$65) | Shipping in Japan since 2019, now on generation 3.0 with 2026 limited editions; detailed published pricing and ongoing support commitments. | Private (GROOVE X, Tokyo) |
| Aria Realbotix · US Full-body conversational humanoid (modular) | Shipping | Yes Busts from $20,000; full-body robots from ~$95,000 (Aria ~$125,000+) | Selling busts and full-body units today (some models sold out per the company); CES 2026 demo of an unscripted two-hour robot-to-robot conversation on on-device AI. | Public (TSX-V: XBOT; also Frankfurt/OTC listed) |
| Reachy Mini Pollen Robotics / Hugging Face · France / US Desktop expressive robot (kit) | Shipping | Yes $299 (Lite, USB) or $449 (Wireless) — sold as a 2–3 hour assembly kit | Selling and shipping globally as kits ($299/$449) with published lead times; large open-source ecosystem (SDK, docs, community apps) under Hugging Face. | Pollen Robotics, acquired by Hugging Face |
| aibo (ERS-1000) Sony · Japan Robot dog | Shipping | Yes Final-sale stock (US store); Japan sales ending as inventory runs out | Shipping since 2018 (sixth generation); Jun 2026: Japan sales discontinued as stock depletes, services and repairs continue. | Sony Group product line |
| Ballie Samsung · South Korea Rolling home companion (projector ball) | Shelved | No Never priced — indefinitely shelved Jan 2026 | None — promised for summer 2025, then indefinitely shelved per Jan 2026 reporting; now an internal platform. | Samsung Electronics internal project |
Industrial & SMB humanoids
Where the real deployments are happening. These machines aren't companions — but they're where the technology (and the honest numbers) currently live, and several makers say homes are next.
| Robot | Status | Can you buy it? | Real-world evidence | Backing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Figure 03 Figure · US Bipedal humanoid | Pilot only | No Not for sale | BotQ factory delivered 350+ Figure 03s by Apr 2026 (100k-robot, four-year target); an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW Plant Spartanburg contributed to production of 30,000 cars. | $39bn post-money (Series C >$1bn, Sep 2025 — the most valuable private maker) |
| Yuanzheng / Lingxi lines AGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) · China Bipedal + wheeled humanoids | Shipping | Yes B2B; sold across reception, entertainment, logistics, research | The world's #1 humanoid shipper in 2025 — 5,168 units, 39% of the ~13,000-unit global market (Omdia); produced its 15,000th robot in Jun 2026. | Hong Kong IPO planned at a $5.1–6.4bn valuation; backed by Tencent, HongShan, BYD |
| Walker S2 UBTECH · China Bipedal humanoid | Shipping | Yes B2B contracts (single orders up to ¥250M) | Mass production and delivery since Nov 2025; 1,079 full-size humanoids sold in 2025 on ¥800M+ (~$112M) of orders; works with BYD, Foxconn, Geely, FAW-VW; targets 5k units/yr capacity in 2026. | Public (HKEX: 9880); 2025 revenue ¥2.01bn, humanoid segment up 22× |
| Galbot G1 Galbot (Galaxy General Robot) · China Wheeled humanoid (mobile manipulator) | Shipping | Yes B2B; also runs its own robot-staffed retail stores | Thousands of units ordered (CATL, Bosch, Toyota, Hyundai); 24/7 warehouse operation for over a year; robot-run retail stores in 30+ Chinese cities. | $3bn valuation ($300M+ round, Dec 2025; ~$800M total raised) |
| Digit Agility Robotics · US Bipedal mobile manipulator | Shipping | Yes Robots-as-a-Service — leased, not sold outright | The industry's first formal commercial humanoid deployment (GXO's Spanx warehouse, RaaS, 2024); customers include Toyota, Schaeffler, Mercado Libre. | Going public via SPAC at $2.5bn (announced Jun 2026); backed by Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank |
| PM01 EngineAI · China Bipedal humanoid (compact) | Shipping | Yes ~$19,000–26,000 via Western distributors (editions vary); SE01 ~$54,000 | Shipping to buyers through international distributors; known for the industry's most natural neural-network walking gait and viral acrobatics demos. | Private (Shenzhen startup) |
| T1 Booster Robotics · China Bipedal humanoid (1.2 m, compact) | Shipping | Yes From ~$9,000 (Basic) to ~$47,700 (Standard, US tariff-inclusive) | Shipping via distributors; the 2025 RoboCup Soccer 'AdultSize' championship platform, used by 50+ robotics teams and institutes worldwide. | Private (Beijing startup) |
| K2 'Bumblebee' Kepler Robotics · China Bipedal humanoid (industrial) | Pilot only | Yes List RMB 248,000 (~$34,000), B2B | Verified: real-world testing at an SAIC-GM plant (Shanghai). Claimed but unverified: mass production, customer shipments, and 'several thousand' units in framework agreements. | Reportedly controlled by A-share-listed Tao Motor via acquisition |
| Apollo Apptronik · US Bipedal humanoid (legs + wheeled variants) | Pilot only | No Not for sale | Apollo units working in designated areas at Mercedes-Benz, GXO, and Jabil facilities; a new robot was due to debut in 2026; long-term aim includes assisted care and home use. | ~$5bn valuation ($935M+ Series A incl. Google, Mercedes-Benz, Feb 2026) |
| GR-3 Fourier · China Bipedal humanoid (care-focused) | Pilot only | Yes From above ¥200,000 (~$28,000), B2B pre-sales | B2B pre-sales open; early clinical-setting integrations reported (2026); parent company's rehab products deployed in 2,000+ institutions across 40+ countries. | Private; ~$110M Series E (2025), backed by Guoxin and Prosperity7 |
| Atlas (electric) Boston Dynamics · US (Hyundai-owned) Bipedal humanoid | Pilot only | No Not for sale externally until ~2027; early unit cost est. $130–140k | Production version unveiled at CES 2026 with all 2026 fleets already committed (Hyundai's robotics center + Google DeepMind); Hyundai plans 25,000+ Atlas units in its own plants and a 30k/yr robot factory by 2028. | Hyundai-owned (acquired 2021); part of Hyundai's $26bn US investment plan |
| IRON XPeng · China Bipedal humanoid | Announced | No Not for sale; customer deliveries planned from 2027 | Factory groundbreaking (110,000 m², Guangzhou, 2026); mass production targeted end-2026; CEO took direct control of the robotics unit Jun 2026; customer deliveries planned 2027. | Part of XPeng (NYSE: XPEV / HKEX: 9868) |
| 4NE-1 Neura Robotics · Germany Bipedal humanoid | Announced | No Not consumer-priced; large-scale shipments targeted for late 2026 | Company-stated order book of ~$1.2bn; targets 5 million robots by 2030 — plans, not deliveries, as of mid-2026. | Up to $1.4bn Series C (Jun 2026) led by Tether with Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch; reported ~$9–12bn valuation |
How to read this tracker
We assign status from evidence, not press releases. Shipping requires real units delivered to paying customers. Pre-order means you can pay today and wait. Pilot only means the robot works inside partner facilities but you cannot buy one at any price. Announcedmeans demos and plans. Valuations and targets come from filings and named reporting; where a company's claim can't be independently checked (order books, internal fleets), we say whose claim it is. This is the same rule as the verified-pricing stamp on our app pricing table: first-hand or clearly attributed, never invented.
Why is an AI-companion review site tracking robots? Because the same question drives both: what do you actually get for your money? As companions gain bodies, we'll rate them the way we rate apps — honestly, and only after we can verify.
FAQ
Can you buy a humanoid robot in 2026?
A handful, all developer platforms: Unitree's G1 (~$16,000), EngineAI's PM01 (~$19,000–26,000 via distributors), and Booster's T1 (from ~$9,000) ship today — none does household work out of the box. For homes, two robots take real orders: 1X's NEO ($20,000 or $499/month, US deliveries from 2026) and Weave's Isaac 1 ($7,999 or $449/month, California deliveries from fall 2026). Everything else is a pilot inside partner factories or an announcement. Tesla's Optimus is not for sale; Tesla has pointed to roughly late 2027 for commercial sales.
How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026?
The real, published numbers: Booster T1 from ~$9,000; Unitree G1 from ~$16,000; EngineAI PM01 ~$19,000–26,000; 1X NEO $20,000 outright or $499/month; Kepler lists its industrial K2 at ~$34,000. On the industrial side, Hyundai's early Atlas production cost is estimated at $130,000–140,000 per unit, and Tesla has projected $20,000–30,000 for Optimus if and when sales open. Industrial deals are typically leases or B2B contracts rather than sticker prices.
Which humanoid robots are actually deployed and doing real work?
A short list. Agility's Digit runs in GXO's Spanx warehouse under the industry's first commercial RaaS deal. UBTECH delivered several hundred Walker S2 units to Chinese factories (BYD, Foxconn and others are partners) and sold 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025. AGIBOT shipped 5,168 robots in 2025 — the global #1. Figure ran an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW Spartanburg. Everything else is pilots and demos.
Will humanoid robots become home companions?
That's the direction the money is pointing: 1X, Weave, Sunday Robotics, and Tesla are all explicitly targeting the home, and Figure demos household tasks like laundry and dishwashers. But as of mid-2026 no shipping robot cleans a real house autonomously — the first credible attempts (NEO and Isaac 1 deliveries, Memo's home beta) are only just beginning. Meanwhile the robots whose only job is companionship — ElliQ, LOVOT, Reachy Mini — already ship. We track them all the same way we track AI companion apps: by what's verifiable, not what's promised.
Sources
- 1X Technologies — Order NEO (official pricing page) (2026)
- 1X Technologies — NEO Home Robot — autonomy, Expert Mode, and privacy controls (2026)
- The Robot Report — NEO humanoid available for preorder (Oct 2025)
- PCMag — NEO can do your chores — with a big potential privacy trade-off (Nov 2025)
- The New Yorker — Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed? (Jun 2026)
- GlobeNewswire / Sunday Robotics — Sunday raises $165M at a $1.15B valuation to launch Memo (Mar 2026)
- Electrek — Optimus production begins at Fremont late July/August; no 2026 volume target (Apr 2026)
- Teslarati — Optimus line fires up; Fremont targets 1M units/yr capacity (Jul 2026)
- Embodied Global — Optimus Gen3 ramp: commercial sales expected late 2027 at $20–30k (May 2026)
- Reuters — Unitree plans Shanghai IPO; 2025 revenue +335%, net profit +674% (Mar 2026)
- Caixin Global — Unitree advances toward $618M Shanghai IPO (Jun 2026)
- robotics.press — Unitree IPO filing analysis: ~$248M 2025 revenue; G1 at ~$16,000 (Apr 2026)
- CNBC — Neura Robotics raises up to $1.4B, backed by Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm (Jun 2026)
- CoinDesk — Tether leads Neura round; ~$1.2B order book; 5M robots by 2030 target (Jun 2026)
- Reuters — Figure valued at $39 billion in Series C (Sep 2025)
- Figure AI — Ramping Figure 03 production: 350+ robots delivered from BotQ (Apr 2026)
- Figure AI — Figure 02's 11-month deployment at BMW Plant Spartanburg (Nov 2025)
- The Robot Report — Figure plans to ship 100,000 humanoids over four years (Sep 2025)
- Reuters — AgiBot plans Hong Kong IPO at a $5.1–6.4B valuation (Oct 2025)
- AGIBOT / Omdia — Omdia: AGIBOT #1 in 2025 humanoid shipments (5,168 units, 39% share; ~13,000 market-wide) (Jan 2026)
- The Robot Report — AGIBOT produces its 15,000th robot (Jun 2026)
- PR Newswire / UBTECH — Walker S2 begins mass production; orders exceed ¥800M (~$112M) (Nov 2025)
- Humanoid Guide — UBTECH 2025 results: 1,079 full-size humanoids sold; segment revenue ¥821M (Apr 2026)
- CNBC — Apptronik raises $520M at a $5B valuation for Apollo (Feb 2026)
- The Robot Report — Galbot surpasses $300M round at a $3B valuation; thousands of units ordered (Dec 2025)
- AP News — Agility Robotics to go public via SPAC at a $2.5B valuation (Jun 2026)
- Agility Robotics / GXO — GXO signs industry-first multi-year RaaS agreement for Digit (Spanx facility) (Jun 2024)
- Boston Dynamics — Boston Dynamics unveils production Atlas; 2026 deployments fully committed (Jan 2026)
- The Korea Herald — Hyundai to deploy 25,000+ Atlas robots; ~$130–140k early unit cost (May 2026)
- heise online — Realbotix at CES 2026: busts from $20k, full robots from $95k (Jan 2026)
- Business Insider — Hands-on with Realbotix's $125K humanoids: conversation gaps (Jul 2026)
- Business Wire / Realbotix — Realbotix (TSX-V: XBOT) demos two robots in unscripted two-hour conversation (Jan 2026)
- GROOVE X — LOVOT official pricing: ¥577,500 body + monthly plan from ¥9,900 (2026)
- PR Times / GROOVE X — LOVOT 3.0 2026 limited colors (¥699,600); ongoing sales & support (Jun 2026)
- Intuition Robotics — ElliQ official pricing: $249 lease initiation + $39–59/mo membership (2026)
- The Robot Report — ElliQ approved as a Washington state Medicaid 'Smart Care Device'; thousands deployed (Mar 2026)
- Pollen Robotics / Hugging Face — Reachy Mini official store: $299 Lite / $449 Wireless kits (2026)
- Hugging Face — Reachy Mini launch: open-source robot for AI builders (Jul 2025)
- Sony Electronics — Sony aibo ERS-1000 US store page (sold as final sale) (2026)
- The Japan Times — Sony discontinues Japan sales of aibo once stock runs out; services continue (Jun 2026)
- Ars Technica — Samsung Ballie, promised for summer 2025, indefinitely shelved (Jan 2026)
- Weave Robotics — Isaac 1 official pre-order: $7,999 or $449/mo; CA deliveries fall 2026 (Jul 2026)
- The Verge — Isaac 1 pre-orders open; teleoperated 'when needed to guarantee we complete tasks' (Jul 2026)
- CnEVPost — XPeng breaks ground on 110,000 m² humanoid factory; mass production target end-2026 (Feb 2026)
- Reuters (via MarketScreener) — XPeng CEO takes over robotics unit; IRON deliveries to customers from 2027 (Jun 2026)
- TMTPost — Fourier GR-3 care-bot launch: priced above ¥200,000 (~$27.5k), B2B focus (Aug 2025)
- Fourier — Fourier unveils its first care-centric humanoid GR-3 (Aug 2025)
- DEPLOY registry — K2 Bumblebee registry review: pilot maturity; SAIC-GM plant testing is the strongest verified signal (Jun 2026)
- Robotics Tomorrow — Kepler announces K2 mass production at RMB 248,000 (~$34k) (Sep 2025)
- Robots International — EngineAI PM01/SE01 distributor pricing (~$26k–54k) (2026)
- Sonny Robotics — EngineAI PM01 European distributor listing (~€18.6k), ships within a week (2026)
- RobotShop — Booster T1 Standard listed at $47,685 (US, tariff-inclusive) (2026)
- Booster Robotics — Booster T1: RoboCup 2025 champion platform, used by 50+ teams and institutes (2026)
- Robotopian — Booster T1 Basic from ~$9,000 via distributor (2026)