Physical companions · Evidence over hype
Humanoid & Home Robots
Companionship is starting to grow a body. We track the machines the same way we review AI companion apps — by what you actually get for your money. Every profile separates verifiable evidence (deliveries, prices, filings) from promises, and because we haven't tested these robots hands-on, you'll find no star ratings here — availability status and sourced facts only, until we can earn better.
Home & companion robots
Ranked by readiness →The robots aimed at living rooms. The honest headline for 2026: two pre-orders, one beta, one developer kit, one promise.
NEO
Pre-order1X Technologies · US (Norwegian roots)
The first humanoid you can actually order for your home — with a teleoperation asterisk.
$20,000 Early Access (priority 2026 delivery) or $499/mo subscription
Isaac 1
Pre-orderWeave Robotics · US
The $7,999 laundry robot that just made home robots a two-horse race.
$7,999 up-front or $449/mo subscription ($250 refundable deposit)
Memo
AnnouncedSunday Robotics · US
A wheeled home robot trained on real chores in real houses.
Not publicly priced yet
Optimus
AnnouncedTesla · US
The biggest promise in robotics — still a promise.
Not for sale; Tesla has projected $20–30k when commercial sales open (~late 2027)
G1 (plus R1 / H1)
ShippingUnitree Robotics · China
The flagship of the buyable humanoids — for developers, not dishes.
G1 from ~$16,000
Social & companion robots
Ranked by what ships →Robots whose whole job is company — our core beat, embodied. The surprise of this segment: the machines that actually ship aren't humanoids, and the most famous promise (Ballie) never shipped at all.
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ShippingIntuition Robotics · Israel / US
The companion robot that actually shipped — and got Medicaid to pay for it.
$249 one-time + $39–59/mo membership (lease model)
LOVOT 3.0
ShippingGROOVE X · Japan
The robot designed to need you — shipping since 2019.
¥577,500 (~$3,800) + required plan from ¥9,900/mo (~$65)
Aria
ShippingRealbotix · US
The humanoid built for conversation and companionship — sold by the only public company doing it.
Busts from $20,000; full-body robots from ~$95,000 (Aria ~$125,000+)
Reachy Mini
ShippingPollen Robotics / Hugging Face · France / US
The $299 open-source companion that made robot ownership a weekend project.
$299 (Lite, USB) or $449 (Wireless) — sold as a 2–3 hour assembly kit
aibo (ERS-1000)
ShippingSony · Japan
The original companion robot — now on its farewell lap.
Final-sale stock (US store); Japan sales ending as inventory runs out
Ballie
ShelvedSamsung · South Korea
Six years of demos, zero shipments: the cautionary tale of home-robot promises.
Never priced — indefinitely shelved Jan 2026
Industrial & SMB humanoids
All humanoids, ranked by evidence →Where the real deployments are. Several makers say homes are next — these profiles are how we'll hold them to it.
Figure 03
Pilot onlyFigure · US
The most valuable humanoid startup — and you can't buy one.
Not for sale
Yuanzheng / Lingxi lines
ShippingAGIBOT (Zhiyuan Robotics) · China
The world's #1 humanoid shipper you've maybe never heard of.
B2B; sold across reception, entertainment, logistics, research
Walker S2
ShippingUBTECH · China
Mass-produced industrial humanoids with real customers and real accounts.
B2B contracts (single orders up to ¥250M)
Galbot G1
ShippingGalbot (Galaxy General Robot) · China
Skip the legs: the wheeled humanoid quietly racking up real orders.
B2B; also runs its own robot-staffed retail stores
Digit
ShippingAgility Robotics · US
The first humanoid with a real job.
Robots-as-a-Service — leased, not sold outright
PM01
ShippingEngineAI · China
The viral-gait humanoid you can actually order — open source and shipping.
~$19,000–26,000 via Western distributors (editions vary); SE01 ~$54,000
T1
ShippingBooster Robotics · China
The RoboCup champion's robot — the cheapest way into a real humanoid.
From ~$9,000 (Basic) to ~$47,700 (Standard, US tariff-inclusive)
K2 'Bumblebee'
Pilot onlyKepler Robotics · China
A $34,000 'mass-produced' humanoid — where claims and verification part ways.
List RMB 248,000 (~$34,000), B2B
Apollo
Pilot onlyApptronik · US
The Google-powered humanoid betting on partnerships over spectacle.
Not for sale
GR-3
Pilot onlyFourier · China
The first humanoid designed to care rather than to carry.
From above ¥200,000 (~$28,000), B2B pre-sales
Atlas (electric)
Pilot onlyBoston Dynamics · US (Hyundai-owned)
The famous demos finally become a product — for Hyundai first.
Not for sale externally until ~2027; early unit cost est. $130–140k
IRON
AnnouncedXPeng · China
China's answer to Optimus — same playbook, same missing receipts.
Not for sale; customer deliveries planned from 2027
4NE-1
AnnouncedNeura Robotics · Germany
Europe's $1.4bn bet on a homegrown humanoid.
Not consumer-priced; large-scale shipments targeted for late 2026
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The data behind these pages
Every fact on this side of the site traces to a named, linked source — maker pricing pages, filings, and primary reporting. The full sourced dataset (prices, availability, deployments, funding for all 24machines) lives on the Humanoid Robot Tracker, free to cite. Rankings are 3 evidence-based lists — readiness, not star scores. New to the vocabulary? The glossary covers VLAs, teleoperation, world models, and the rest.