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.
Robot photography is the manufacturers' own press and product imagery, shown for identification and review, and credited to each rights holder on the robot's profile.
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Our channel →The same evidence, in video form — every claim sourced, every robot shown in the maker's own photography.
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.
ElliQ
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 $399 open-source companion that made robot ownership a weekend project.
$399 (Lite, USB) or $499 (Wireless) — sold as a 2–3 hour assembly kit. Both rose from $299/$449; the increase we flagged as 'slated' has now landed.
UWORLD U1
Pre-orderUBTECH · China
The first mass-produced humanoid built for companionship — with a 'replica of a loved one' pitch that deserves hard scrutiny.
U1 Lite (semi-torso) from ¥119,800 (~$16,500); U1 Pro (full-body) ¥169,800 (~$25,000); U1 Ultra ¥990,000 (~$146,000)
Ballie
ShelvedSamsung · South Korea
Six years of demos, zero shipments: the cautionary tale of home-robot promises.
Never priced — indefinitely shelved Jan 2026
Robot pets
Ranked by what ships →The affordable end — and the only corner of the robot world most people can actually buy into. It's also where the claims are loosest: much of what ranks on Google here is written by the manufacturers themselves, and the one product everyone calls "FDA-cleared" isn't.
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
PARO
ShippingAIST / PARO Robots · Japan (US distributor: Itasca, IL)
The only robot pet with a real clinical evidence base — and the one whose famous 'FDA-cleared' credential turns out not to exist.
~£6,000 ex. VAT via the UK distributor; the US distributor publishes no price (quote-on-request). Institutional, not consumer, pricing.
Moflin
ShippingCasio · Japan
A $429 furry blob with no face, no wheels and no screen — and the most convincing sales numbers of any robot pet.
$429 (£369), from Casio directly. Not sold on Amazon.
Loona
ShippingKEYi Tech · China
The one robot pet with a real Amazon listing — and a maker who can't agree with itself on the price.
~$429 (KEYi's own pages quote $399.90 to $529 simultaneously). Available on Amazon US.
Jennie
Pre-orderTombot · Santa Clarita, California, USA
The most emotionally convincing robot pet built — and you still can't buy one.
$1,500 per press reporting from CES 2026 — Tombot publishes no price on its own site. Waitlist only; the first litter is sold out.
Ropet
ShippingRopet · China / Hong Kong
Moflin's pitch, cheaper, and actually on Amazon — though it is no longer the $299 robot the CES headlines promised.
$339 on Ropet's own store (down from a $489 list). It debuted at CES 2025 at $299 — the price has risen since. Also sold on Amazon US.
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
Head-to-head
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 30machines) lives on the Humanoid Robot Tracker, free to cite — and we now re-crawl the makers' own pages and log what moves in Robot Watch. Rankings are 4 evidence-based lists — readiness, not star scores. New to the vocabulary? The glossary covers VLAs, teleoperation, world models, and the rest.
From the blog
All articles →The bigger picture: where physical companions fit alongside the apps, what you can actually buy, and where the promises end.
The Robots You Can Actually Buy in 2026 — and the Ones That Are Just Promises
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When Your AI Companion Gets a Body: The Rise of Companion Robots
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Robot Companions for Loneliness: What Actually Helps in 2026
From ElliQ to robotic pets like Paro and Moflin, robots are being prescribed for loneliness — some with real evidence behind them. An honest guide to what helps, what's hype, and where the ethics get tricky.
The Home-Robot Race: Optimus, NEO, and Who's Actually Winning
Tesla's Optimus gets the headlines, but 1X's NEO is the one you can order. A clear-eyed look at the home-robot race in 2026 — who ships, who's promising, and what the teleoperation asterisk really means.