- Purchase price ~$250k vs ~$150k also cited; RaaS ~$30/hr is vendor-stated
- CEO's ~1,000 figure is booked backlog, not field units
The humanoid race
Who is actually leading15 makers, 42 bipedal humanoids, four KPIs that cannot be fudged — price, availability, verified customers, and units in the field. Ranked into tiers, with a national scoreboard, and every disputed cell flagged. This is a snapshot of a fast-moving field, sourced and dated, and open to correction.
As of 2026-07-15 · Tracker · By Sondre Hegerland Kristiansen · Updated weekly — what changed →Humanoid coverage is drowning in demo reels and vendor numbers. This page tries to answer one question honestly — who is actually deploying, not just announcing — using only KPIs a reader can check.
Price: the figure the maker itself stated, flagged ⚠ when it is a target or estimate, not a sale price. Availability: a 0–4 ladder from concept to on-sale. Verified customers: named, sourced outside organizations — MOUs and investors do not count. Units in field: machines operating outside the maker's own lab, with vendor-claimed vs third-party marked.
Humanoids only — wheeled and cobot machines are excluded. Vendor claims are labelled as such; teleoperation is noted where demos imply autonomy. Tiers are judged only on the KPI data below, not on reputation. Corrections welcome: shk@moduloa.com.
How "availability" is scored
Concept or render only.
Working demo in the maker's own lab.
Unpaid pilots at real customer sites.
Paid work at customers — real revenue.
Openly on sale — public price + order channel.
Team USA vs Team China — and the rest
Counted by home country of the program (owner noted separately where it differs). The number that matters is at market — how many of each country's humanoids have reached stage 3+ (doing paid work, or openly on sale). Verified paid work specifically is rarer, and called out in the KPI leaders below.
Who wins each measure
The tiers
Leaders
4 makersVerified commercial traction — real paid work or real shipment volume.
- Figure 03 paid-vs-demonstration status disputed
- 350 units is vendor-claimed; count at customer sites undisclosed
- Units are shipped, not deployed-in-service
- US national-security scrutiny (Congressional blacklist move, Pentagon listing)
- 15,000 figure is units produced, not deployed
- Some 'customers' are related-party or promotional
Contenders
5 makersReal capital, specs, or pilots — but a verification or arm's-length gap.
- CES 2026 stage demo was teleoperated
- Availability corrected down: committed, not yet running
- No published deployment KPIs
- $50k is a target, not a sale price
- '10,000' is preorder backlog, not sales/deliveries
- Teleoperation-dependent for complex tasks
- Order backlog ≠ paid revenue
- CGI-authenticity allegation on a 2025 demo
- 'Customers' are mostly investors/partners
- Stage-4 commercial posture, but zero deployed units
Watchlist
6 makersEarly-stage, research-oriented, or thin on verified deployment KPIs.
- Marquee demos (2024 bartending, 2025 fall) were teleoperated
- Gen 3 specs unreleased; not in production yet
- Teleop-vs-autonomy at debut unverified
- Mass production planned end-2026, not yet begun
- Customers are demo/research, not paid labor
- Medical-device numbers ≠ humanoid deployments
- Backlog claims contradicted by disclosed financials
- Deeply loss-making; related-party 'customer'
- Pivoted away from selling whole humanoids (2026)
- Only deployment was teleoperated
- Buyers are research teams, not industrial deployments
- Unit figure vendor-claimed and stale
Every humanoid, model by model
One table, every humanoid. Filter by country or availability, and click Robot, Price, or Availability to sort — so you can compare cheapest-first, or furthest-deployed-first, across every maker. Current-generation models carry an accent bar; each definition doubles as that machine's defined term.
| Robot | Maker | Price | Availability | Spec · source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
G1 A compact, affordable humanoid robot aimed at researchers, developers and education. |
🇨🇳Unitree | $13,500 | 4 On sale | 132cm · 7-DoF hands · src |
R1 An ultra-lightweight, low-cost full-size humanoid robot aimed at universities, hobbyists and early consumer adopters. |
🇨🇳Unitree | $5,900 | 4 On sale | 121cm · src |
H2 Unitree's full-size second-generation flagship humanoid successor to the H1, built for agile locomotion and manipulation. |
🇨🇳Unitree | $29,900 | 4 On sale | 182cm · src |
Yuanzheng A2 (Expedition A2 / AgiBot A2) Yuanzheng (远征) means 'Expedition / long march' in Chinese; A2 = second-generation Expedition-series humanoid A full-size bipedal interactive service humanoid built for reception, retail guidance, exhibitions and customer-facing marketing work. |
🇨🇳AgiBot | — | 4 On sale | 169cm · src |
Digit A bipedal, human-sized warehouse robot built to move totes and packages and perform repetitive material-handling tasks alongside people. |
🇺🇸Agility Robotics | $250,000 estimate | 3 Paid work | 175cm · src |
Figure 03 A third-generation general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot designed for both home and commercial work such as logistics and manipulation tasks. |
🇺🇸Figure AI | $20,000 target | 3 Paid work | 173cm · src |
Lingxi X2 (AgiBot X2) Lingxi (灵犀) = intuitive/telepathic rapport (idiom 心有灵犀); X2 is the second-generation compact Lingxi humanoid A compact, soft-skinned bipedal humanoid for education, entertainment, research and light human-facing service interaction. |
🇨🇳AgiBot | $13,800 estimate | 3 Paid work | 131cm · src |
H2 Plus upcoming An NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference humanoid robot built as a standardized platform for academic embodied-AI research. |
🇨🇳Unitree | $100,000 | 1 Lab demo | 182cm · 22-DoF hands · src |
H1 older gen A full-size bipedal humanoid robot built for high-speed locomotion and mobility research. |
🇨🇳Unitree | $90,000 estimate | 4 On sale | 180cm · src |
H1-2 older gen An upgraded second-iteration H1 humanoid with more dexterous 7-DOF arms and dual ankle joints for manipulation research. |
🇨🇳Unitree | $128,900 estimate | 4 On sale | 178cm · src |
Lingxi X1 (AgiBot X1) older gen Lingxi (灵犀) evokes the idiom 心有灵犀 — an intuitive, telepathic mutual understanding (from a mythical rhino-horn believed to connect two minds) An open-source, full-body bipedal humanoid reference platform released for developers and researchers to build on. |
🇨🇳AgiBot | — | 4 On sale | 133cm · 10-DoF hands · src |
Figure 02 older gen A second-generation general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot built for commercial and industrial deployment such as automotive manufacturing. |
🇺🇸Figure AI | — | 3 Paid work | 168cm · 16-DoF hands · src |
Figure 01 older gen Figure's first-generation general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot used to demonstrate autonomous manipulation and locomotion. |
🇺🇸Figure AI | — | 1 Lab demo | 168cm · src |
NEO A soft, lightweight bipedal home humanoid robot designed to autonomously perform household chores and act as a conversational AI companion. |
🇳🇴1X | $20,000 | 4 On sale | 168cm · 22-DoF hands · src |
Atlas (Electric Atlas) Named after the Titan Atlas of Greek mythology, condemned to hold up the sky A fully electric, general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot built for heavy industrial and manufacturing tasks. |
🇺🇸Boston Dynamics | $320,000 target | 3 Paid work | 190cm · src |
Apollo 2 The current second-generation Apollo humanoid, offered in bipedal and wheeled-base configurations, used to perform real work and collect large-scale training data across customer sites. |
🇺🇸Apptronik | $50,000 target | 3 Paid work | — · src |
Walker S2 An industrial humanoid robot designed for factory and logistics work that can autonomously swap its own battery to run continuously. |
🇨🇳UBTech | $90,000 estimate | 3 Paid work | 176cm · 11-DoF hands · src |
4NE1 (4NE-1 Gen 3.5) Reads phonetically as "for anyone" (4-N-E-1); commonly cited as the intended meaning, not officially confirmed by NEURA A ~180 cm cognitive bipedal humanoid robot designed for industrial and domestic labor, styled by Studio F.A. Porsche and running NVIDIA-based AI on the Neuraverse fleet-learning platform. |
🇩🇪NEURA | $105,000 | 3 Paid work | 180cm · 16-DoF hands · src |
4NE1 Mini Reads phonetically as "for anyone" (4-N-E-1); "Mini" denotes the compact form factor A compact ~132 cm bipedal humanoid built on the same cognitive AI and perception stack as the full 4NE1, aimed at research, education, entertainment, and light commercial use. |
🇩🇪NEURA | $21,500 | 3 Paid work | 132cm · 12-DoF hands · src |
Apollo 3 upcoming Apptronik's announced next-generation Apollo, positioned as its first mature commercial product for high-volume paid deployment in bipedal and wheeled configurations. |
🇺🇸Apptronik | $80,000 target | 1 Lab demo | — · src |
Apollo older gen A commercial general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot built for industrial and logistics work such as material handling in warehouses and factories. |
🇺🇸Apptronik | $50,000 target | 3 Paid work | 173cm · src |
Walker S1 older gen A 41-DOF industrial humanoid robot built for multi-task manufacturing scenarios such as automotive assembly assistance. |
🇨🇳UBTech | — | 3 Paid work | 172cm · src |
Walker S older gen UBTech's first industrial-focused humanoid robot for multi-task factory scenarios, predecessor of the Walker S1. |
🇨🇳UBTech | — | 2 Pilots | 170cm · src |
Walker X older gen A commercial/service-oriented bipedal humanoid robot for human-robot interaction, object manipulation and demonstrations. |
🇨🇳UBTech | $150,000 estimate | 2 Pilots | 130cm · src |
Atlas (HD Atlas) older gen Named after the Titan Atlas of Greek mythology, condemned to hold up the sky A hydraulically actuated bipedal research humanoid built for dynamic mobility and search-and-rescue R&D, retired in 2024. |
🇺🇸Boston Dynamics | — | 1 Lab demo | 150cm · src |
NEO Gamma older gen 'Gamma' denotes the third development generation after NEO Alpha and Beta The 2025 research/development generation of 1X's home humanoid used to demonstrate whole-body control and in-home autonomy before the consumer NEO. |
🇳🇴1X | — | 1 Lab demo | 168cm · src |
4NE1 Gen 3 older gen Reads phonetically as "for anyone" (4-N-E-1); commonly cited, not officially confirmed by NEURA The third-generation 4NE1 humanoid premiered at Automatica 2025 in Munich, introducing Studio F.A. Porsche styling and higher-dexterity hands. |
🇩🇪NEURA | — | 1 Lab demo | 180cm · 16-DoF hands · src |
GR-3 (Care-bot) A full-size bipedal humanoid companion robot designed for emotional interaction, social companionship and human-centered care service in homes, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. |
🇨🇳Fourier | $80,000 | 4 On sale | 165cm · 12-DoF hands · src |
Forerunner K2 Bumblebee (Bumblebee) The mass-production commercial version of the K2 humanoid, a hybrid roller-screw/rotary-actuator bipedal robot for industrial logistics, manufacturing, and service tasks. |
🇨🇳Kepler | $34,000 | 4 On sale | 175cm · src |
Booster T1 A lightweight developer-focused bipedal humanoid built for research and robot-soccer competition. |
🇨🇳Booster + EngineAI | $29,800 | 4 On sale | 118cm · 6-DoF hands · src |
EngineAI PM01 An open-source, agile full-body humanoid aimed at education, research and commercial developers. |
🇨🇳Booster + EngineAI | $13,700 | 4 On sale | 138cm · src |
EngineAI SE01 A full-size general-purpose humanoid with a bio-inspired neural-network gait for industrial and service use. |
🇨🇳Booster + EngineAI | $20,000 | 4 On sale | 170cm · src |
EngineAI T800 A heavy-duty full-size universal humanoid designed for high-torque industrial work at mass-production scale. |
🇨🇳Booster + EngineAI | $25,000 | 4 On sale | 173cm · src |
N1 (Nexus-01) First model ('01') of Fourier's Nexus open-source ecosystem A compact, fully open-source bipedal humanoid research platform whose bill of materials, blueprints, assembly guide and control software are publicly released for developers. |
🇨🇳Fourier | — | 3 Paid work | 130cm · src |
Next-Gen IRON (IRON (2025 generation)) upcoming XPeng's second-generation, human-sized bipedal humanoid robot designed for commercial service and industrial work, driven by an in-house Vision-Language-Action AI brain. |
🇨🇳XPeng | $150,000 estimate | 2 Pilots | 178cm · 22-DoF hands · src |
Optimus Gen 3 (Tesla Bot) upcoming Tesla's production-intent third-generation general-purpose humanoid robot, redesigned around highly dexterous human-like hands for commercial deployment. |
🇺🇸Tesla | $25,000 target | 1 Lab demo | 22-DoF hands · src |
GR-2 older gen A general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot sold as a research and development platform for enterprises and institutions. |
🇨🇳Fourier | $150,000 estimate | 3 Paid work | 175cm · 12-DoF hands · src |
GR-1 older gen Fourier's first-generation general-purpose bipedal humanoid research platform, positioned for rehabilitation, research and light service tasks. |
🇨🇳Fourier | — | 3 Paid work | 165cm · 11-DoF hands · src |
Forerunner K2 older gen A full-size general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot built for intelligent manufacturing, warehousing, high-risk operations, and research. |
🇨🇳Kepler | $25,000 estimate | 2 Pilots | 178cm · 11-DoF hands · src |
Phoenix (Gen 7) (Phoenix) older gen A 5'7" bipedal general-purpose humanoid robot built to perform human-scale manual work and, via teleoperation, capture demonstration data to train Sanctuary's Carbon AI. |
🇨🇦Sanctuary | — | 2 Pilots | 170cm · 20-DoF hands · src |
Optimus Gen 2 (Tesla Bot) older gen A general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot built by Tesla to perform repetitive or dangerous manual-labor tasks, initially in Tesla's own factories. |
🇺🇸Tesla | — | 1 Lab demo | 173cm · 11-DoF hands · src |
IRON (IRON (first generation)) older gen XPeng's first-generation bipedal humanoid prototype, unveiled at 2024 AI Day and used internally in XPeng's own factories as an early demonstration platform. |
🇨🇳XPeng | — | 1 Lab demo | 178cm · src |
Galbot G1/S1 (wheeled dual-arm base), 1X EVE (wheeled), AgiBot A2-W and quadruped D1, Sanctuary's 8th-gen wheeled Phoenix, and dexterous-hand / software products — real machines, but not bipedal humanoids, so they are excluded from the board.
What the data actually shows
As of mid-2026 the race splits sharply between messaging and verified reality. Only a handful of firms have third-party-verified paid work at arm's-length customers — Agility and Figure lead there. Chinese makers dominate on price and volume: Unitree and AgiBot top the independent shipment ranking, and entry prices fall below $14,000. Western players compete on capital and specs rather than deployment — Figure and NEURA have raised the most, yet NEURA has no verified field units. Tesla and XPeng, the two best-known names, remain at working-demo stage with no external customers.
Three recurring traps this page tries to avoid: quoted prices are usually aspirational targets, not sale prices; "customers" are often investors, research partners, or captive parents; and headline unit figures conflate production, shipments, orders, and actual deployments. Genuine paid autonomous labor exists — but it is small-scale, geographically concentrated, and narrower than the sector's collective messaging implies. See the predictions register →
Correct the board
Found a stale price, a missed maker, or a "customer" that is really an investor? Corrections and evidence are welcome — sign in with GitHub to post, or email shk@moduloa.com.