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Capability rows label evidence setting, autonomy, human intervention, and verification date, but do not yet map to stable source IDs. The curated /api/v1/robots layer has stronger claim-to-source resolution." }, "robots": [ { "slug": "neura-4ne-1", "name": "4NE1", "aliases": [ "NEURA 4NE-1", "4NE1 Gen 3" ], "company": "neura-robotics", "country": "Germany", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "home-humanoids" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2022-11", "status": "preorder", "intendedUse": "Industrial and service work; household ambitions", "tagline": "Europe's flagship humanoid, on preorder with a claimed billion-dollar pipeline and a Tether-led war chest of up to $1.4 billion.", "overview": [ "4NE1 (pronounced 'for anyone') is NEURA Robotics' full-size humanoid and Europe's most prominent entry in the race. The third generation premiered at Automatica in June 2025: 180 centimeters, a claimed lift capacity up to 100 kilograms, dual swappable batteries, NEURA's Omnisensor perception module and 'artificial skin' contact sensing, plus the Neuraverse app-store ecosystem for robot skills.", "NEURA's June 2026 Series C, led by Tether with participation including NVIDIA, Amazon, Qualcomm, Bosch, Schaeffler and the European Investment Bank, could reach $1.4 billion at a reported valuation around $7 billion. The company claims an order book and deployment pipeline exceeding $1 billion; volume shipments are expected to begin in late 2026, and a smaller 4NE1 Mini appeared at Automate 2026 alongside a US expansion push with AWS and Qualcomm partnerships.", "Reported pricing of about 98,000 euros per unit (falling toward 60,000 at fleet volume) comes from third-party trackers, not an official list. No completed customer delivery of a 4NE1 had been verified as of July 2026." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "About EUR 98,000 (unofficial)", "note": "Third-party figure; volume tiers reported near EUR 60,000; NEURA has not published a list price" }, "availability": { "status": "preorder", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "Europe first; US push announced" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise preorders via NEURA", "expectedDelivery": "Volume shipments expected late 2026", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "No verified customer deliveries; order pipeline claimed above $1B", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 180, "weightKg": 80, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "Up to 100 kg lift (claimed)", "runtime": "Extended via dual swappable batteries", "charging": "Swap and dock", "maxSpeed": "3 km/h class", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not fully published", "hands": "Dexterous hands; tool use claimed", "face": "Helmet head with light signaling", "sensors": "Omnisensor module: vision, radar-like sensing, force; artificial skin (claimed)" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "NEURA cognitive stack; Neuraverse skills ecosystem; partnerships with NVIDIA and cloud providers", "voice": "Voice interaction demonstrated", "languages": "German, English", "visualRecognition": "Person and object recognition (claimed)", "memory": "Skill and environment models", "processing": "Onboard plus Neuraverse cloud", "autonomy": "Industrial task demos; household tasks aspirational", "teleoperation": "Supported in development", "updates": "Neuraverse skill updates", "developerAccess": "Neuraverse developer ecosystem" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Industrial handling; household chores shown in concept demos", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Voice interaction", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None claimed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not yet documented", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not documented", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not documented", "dataDeletion": "Not documented", "accountRequired": "Neuraverse account expected", "emergencyStop": "Industrial safety stack", "childPetSafety": "Artificial-skin safety marketed; certification unpublished", "securityUpdates": "Not documented" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 4, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": null, "availability": 4, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Enormous funding and claims, pending the one thing that moves scores here: delivered robots.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2022-11", "status": "prototype", "note": "First 4NE1 concept shown" }, { "date": "2025-06", "status": "preorder", "note": "Gen 3 world premiere at Automatica; Neuraverse launch; MiPA reservations" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "preorder", "note": "Series C up to $1.4B led by Tether; Automate 2026 US push; 4NE1 Mini debut" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "NEURA Robotics funding for AI humanoid robots", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/neura-robotics-funding-ai-humanoid-robots.html", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-06-10" }, { "title": "Automatica 2025: NEURA unveils 3rd-generation 4NE1", "url": "https://www.robotics247.com/article/automatica-2025-neura-robotics-unveils-3rd-generation-4ne1-humanoid", "publisher": "Robotics 24/7", "date": "2025-06" }, { "title": "NEURA at Automate 2026", "url": "https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/bizwire-2026-6-19-neura-robotics-showcases-full-stack-robotics-platform-at-automate-2026", "publisher": "Business Wire", "date": "2026-06-19" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "The EUR 98,000 price and 'Gen 3.5 ships late 2026' claims rest on weak third-party sourcing", "The $1B+ order book is a company statement without published customer breakdown" ], "companyName": "NEURA Robotics" }, { "slug": "hexagon-aeon", "name": "AEON", "aliases": [ "Hexagon AEON" ], "company": "hexagon-robotics", "country": "Sweden", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2025-06", "status": "pilot", "intendedUse": "Factory logistics, machine tending and scanning", "tagline": "The measurement giant's wheeled humanoid, running the first humanoid pilot in German automotive production at BMW Leipzig.", "overview": [ "AEON is the humanoid from Hexagon, the Swedish industrial-measurement group, unveiled in June 2025 and built around a pragmatic choice: wheels instead of legs. The 165 centimeter, 60 kilogram robot with a 15 kilogram payload and 34 degrees of freedom trades stairs for reliability, and leans on Hexagon's core business, precision sensing, for its perception stack.", "Its deployment record filled out fast. BMW ran a first test at Plant Leipzig in December 2025, a second from April 2026, and announced a full pilot in high-voltage battery assembly from summer 2026, the first humanoid pilot in German automotive production. Schaeffler, an investor and early pilot customer, plans a fleet rollout starting at the end of 2026 with a stated ambition of at least 1,000 units by 2032.", "AEON is not for sale on any price list; it moves through enterprise programs, and its evidence is the two blue-chip names testing it." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Enterprise pilot programs only" }, "availability": { "status": "pilot", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "Germany (pilots)", "Europe" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise programs with Hexagon", "expectedDelivery": "Schaeffler fleet rollout stated from end of 2026", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "BMW Leipzig tests (Dec 2025, Apr 2026) with full pilot from summer 2026; Schaeffler pilot and fleet plan", "evidence": "real-world-demo" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 165, "weightKg": 60, "locomotion": "Wheeled base with articulated upper body", "payload": "15 kg", "runtime": "Shift-scale with swap charging (company statements)", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Factory speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "34", "hands": "Grippers; tool integration", "face": "Sensor head with light signaling", "sensors": "Hexagon precision scanning and vision suite" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Hexagon robotics stack with NVIDIA ecosystem", "voice": "Not a focus", "languages": "Not applicable", "visualRecognition": "Industrial part recognition and 3D scanning", "memory": "Task and facility models", "processing": "Onboard with fleet coordination", "autonomy": "Logistics and inspection tasks in pilot settings", "teleoperation": "Supported for training and exceptions", "updates": "Enterprise fleet updates", "developerAccess": "Enterprise integration" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Material handling and machine tending in live plants", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Pilot supervision; details undisclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "security", "claim": "Facility scanning and inspection", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Workplace protocols", "sensorKillSwitch": "Site controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "Industrial e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable (industrial)", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 1, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": null, "availability": 3, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Wheels are a feature, not a compromise: AEON's autonomy evidence comes from real plants, not stages.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-06", "status": "public-demo", "note": "AEON unveiled" }, { "date": "2025-12", "status": "pilot", "note": "First BMW Leipzig test deployment" }, { "date": "2026-02", "status": "pilot", "note": "BMW announces full summer 2026 pilot; Schaeffler fleet plans follow" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Humanoid robot at BMW Plant Leipzig", "url": "https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/news/general/2026/humanoid-robot-in-leipzig.html", "publisher": "BMW Group", "date": "2026-02-27" }, { "title": "Hexagon Robotics and Schaeffler deploy a fleet of AEON humanoids", "url": "https://robotics.hexagon.com/hexagon-robotics-and-schaeffler-deploy-a-fleet-of-aeon-humanoids/", "publisher": "Hexagon", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Hexagon Robotics" }, { "slug": "aibo", "name": "aibo", "aliases": [ "Sony aibo", "ERS-1000" ], "company": "sony", "country": "Japan", "category": "robot-pets", "form": "pet", "announced": "2017-11", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Companion robot dog", "tagline": "The definitive robot pet: eight years in production, a devoted owner community, and a 2026 farewell to its home market.", "overview": [ "Sony's aibo ERS-1000 is the gold standard of companion robots. Revived in 2018 after the original 1999-2006 AIBO line, the robot puppy combines OLED eyes, 22 axes of movement and cloud-backed AI that develops a distinct personality per household, recognizing up to 100 faces, learning tricks and mapping its home. Japan bought 20,000 units in the first six months alone.", "In the US it sells for $2,899.99 including a three-year aibo AI Cloud plan, with renewal afterward reported in the low hundreds of dollars per year. The cloud dependency is aibo's known weakness: without the subscription, core personality features stop, a fact owners of the discontinued original AIBO remember bitterly.", "On June 25-26, 2026, Sony announced it will end aibo sales in Japan once stock runs out, eight years after launch, while continuing US sales and honoring support for existing Japanese owners. It is the strongest possible reminder that even the best companion robots live and die by corporate commitment." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 2900, "display": "$2,899.99 (incl. 3-year cloud plan)", "note": "Cloud renewal after year three reported around $99-299/year; Japan sales ending as stock depletes" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "United States", "Japan (until stock runs out)" ], "orderChannel": "Sony direct", "expectedDelivery": "In stock", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Continuously sold since 2018; large owner community; 20,000 units in first six months in Japan", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 29, "weightKg": 2.2, "locomotion": "Quadruped walking", "payload": "None (bone accessory play)", "runtime": "About 2 hours; self-docks to charge", "charging": "Self-docking charge station", "maxSpeed": "Puppy pace", "degreesOfFreedom": "22", "hands": "None", "face": "OLED eyes with rich expressions; ear and tail articulation", "sensors": "2 cameras (nose and back), 4 microphones, ToF and ranging sensors, touch sensors on head, chin and back, paw pads" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Sony aibo AI with cloud learning (aibo AI Cloud)", "voice": "Recognizes commands and its name; barks and sounds rather than speech", "languages": "Japanese and English command sets", "visualRecognition": "Recognizes up to 100 faces; maps home", "memory": "Persistent personality development per household", "processing": "On-device behavior with cloud learning and backup", "autonomy": "Fully autonomous pet behavior including self-charging", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "Regular feature updates historically; cadence slowed in later years", "developerAccess": "aibo API and visual programming for owners" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Tricks, play, evolving personality", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Command recognition and vocal response (no speech)", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "security", "claim": "aibo Patrol home-check feature", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Owner reviews reports", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Companionship benefits in care settings", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Facilitated programs", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Camera and interaction data processed via aibo AI Cloud under Sony's published policy", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off; no hardware camera shutter", "dataDeletion": "Account data deletion via Sony", "accountRequired": "Yes, Sony account plus cloud plan", "emergencyStop": "Power button; 2.2 kg soft-pawed design", "childPetSafety": "Designed for households; sturdy against handling", "securityUpdates": "Sony-maintained; Japan end-of-sales raises long-term questions" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 7, "physical": 5, "autonomy": 8, "privacy": 7, "availability": 9, "value": 5 }, "scoreNotes": "Autonomy and availability reflect eight shipping years of doing exactly what it promises. Value accounts for the price plus effectively mandatory cloud renewal.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "1999-05", "status": "available", "note": "Original AIBO line (1999-2006), about 150,000 sold, then discontinued" }, { "date": "2018-01", "status": "available", "note": "ERS-1000 launches in Japan; US launch follows at $2,899" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "available", "note": "Sony announces end of Japan sales once stock depletes; US sales continue" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sony to stop aibo sales in Japan", "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/26/companies/sony-sales-aibo-robot-stop/", "publisher": "The Japan Times", "date": "2026-06-26" }, { "title": "Sony discontinues Japan sales of robot puppy aibo", "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260626-sony-discontinues-japan-sales-of-robot-puppy-aibo", "publisher": "France 24", "date": "2026-06-26" }, { "title": "2025-2026 aibo ERS-1000 buyer guide", "url": "https://keyirobot.com/blogs/buying-guide/2025-aibo-ers-1000-review-a-comprehensive-guide-to-price-features-setup-troubleshooting-tips", "publisher": "Keyi Robot", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Sony" }, { "slug": "ameca", "name": "Ameca", "aliases": [ "Ameca Gen 2", "Ameca Gen 3" ], "company": "engineered-arts", "country": "United Kingdom / United States", "category": "social-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "realistic-androids", "education-entertainment" ], "form": "bust", "announced": "2021-12", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Public engagement: museums, events, education, research", "tagline": "The world's most expressive robot face, sold and rented to venues worldwide; it talks brilliantly and does no chores at all.", "overview": [ "Ameca is Engineered Arts' flagship humanoid and the most famous robot face on the internet. Its gray-skinned, deliberately non-human-colored head can produce startlingly lifelike micro-expressions: smirks, blinks, double-takes and eye contact that survive close inspection. Since a viral debut in December 2021 it has become the default robot for expos, museums and television.", "Engineered Arts restructured as a US company in December 2024 with a $10 million Series A and now operates from Redwood Shores, California alongside its original UK base. Ameca is genuinely commercially available to businesses on a quote basis, with rentals for events; third-party estimates put full units in the low-to-mid six figures. A desktop line (Ameca Desktop, Ami and Azi) extends the same expression engine to smaller form factors, with Generation 3 hardware appearing during 2025 and 2026.", "Ameca is usually shown as a torso on a stand: standard configurations do not walk, and its arms are for gesturing, not manipulation. With GPT-class language models wired to its face, it delivers the best conversational embodiment currently demonstrated anywhere." ], "realityCheck": [ "Ameca is what it appears to be, which is rare in this database: a superb expression platform with real customers. The honest caveats: conversation quality depends on the LLM configured for it; it cannot manipulate objects usefully; and event appearances sometimes mix autonomous conversation with operator-triggered responses, which venues do not always disclose." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Quote only (B2B)", "note": "Third-party estimates roughly $100,000-300,000 to buy; event rental around 4,200 pounds/day via third parties" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "Worldwide (B2B sales and rentals)" ], "orderChannel": "Direct from Engineered Arts; rental program", "expectedDelivery": "Built to order", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Deployed at venues, expos and institutions worldwide since 2022; documented US and international customers", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 187, "weightKg": 49, "locomotion": "Stationary torso on stand (standard); research walking versions not sold", "payload": "Not applicable; arms for gesture only", "runtime": "Mains powered; continuous operation", "charging": "Mains powered", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "Head/face 32 DoF class; 51+ total in full configuration (company figures)", "hands": "Articulated fingers for gesture, not manipulation", "face": "Best-in-class: micro-expressions, eye mechanisms with cameras, silicone skin over 17+ facial actuators", "sensors": "Eye cameras, chest camera, microphone array, position/force sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Engineered Arts Tritium OS; LLM integration configurable (GPT-class models demonstrated)", "voice": "Fluent open-ended conversation with lip sync", "languages": "Multiple, depending on configured speech stack", "visualRecognition": "Face detection and tracking, person re-identification, object naming demos", "memory": "Session context; persistent memory configurable by integrators", "processing": "Local control with cloud LLM calls", "autonomy": "Autonomous conversation and expression; no physical task autonomy", "teleoperation": "Operator control and scripted performance modes available to venues", "updates": "Tritium platform updates for customers", "developerAccess": "Yes: API and developer tools for owners" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Open-ended spoken conversation with lifelike facial expression", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None in LLM mode; venues can also run scripted or operator-driven sessions", "notes": "Countless unscripted press and public interactions since 2022", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Star attraction at museums, expos and events", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Venue-dependent mix of autonomous and operator modes", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "Classroom and university engagement programs", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Facilitated sessions", "lastVerified": "2026-06" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Operator/venue controlled; cameras and mics record for interaction processing", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "At the venue's discretion; not standardized", "sensorKillSwitch": "Yes, under operator control", "dataDeletion": "Venue/integrator responsibility", "accountRequired": "Not applicable (B2B)", "emergencyStop": "Hardware e-stop standard", "childPetSafety": "Stationary; supervised public settings", "securityUpdates": "Vendor-supported platform" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 9, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": 4, "availability": 7, "value": 5 }, "scoreNotes": "Social intelligence is the benchmark score for the database. Availability is B2B only; home usefulness is essentially nil by design.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2021-12", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Viral reveal video" }, { "date": "2022-01", "status": "available", "note": "CES debut; sales and rentals to venues begin" }, { "date": "2024-12", "status": "available", "note": "US restructuring and $10M Series A to scale production" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "available", "note": "Generation 3 desktop line surfaces; education deployments continue" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Engineered Arts official site", "url": "https://engineeredarts.com/", "publisher": "Engineered Arts", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "Engineered Arts restructures with $10M to create humanoid robots", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/engineered-arts-restructures-with-10m-to-create-humanoid-robots", "publisher": "VentureBeat", "date": "2024-12-17" }, { "title": "Meet Redwood Shores' lifelike robots", "url": "https://www.mv-voice.com/business/2025/02/03/talking-teaching-and-even-recognizing-dogs-meet-redwood-shores-lifelike-robots/", "publisher": "Mountain View Voice", "date": "2025-02-03" }, { "title": "Engineered Arts interview on use cases", "url": "https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/engineered_arts_robots_interview/", "publisher": "The Register", "date": "2025-01-27" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "All published purchase prices are third-party estimates; Engineered Arts quotes per project" ], "companyName": "Engineered Arts" }, { "slug": "apptronik-apollo", "name": "Apollo", "aliases": [ "Apptronik Apollo", "Apollo 2" ], "company": "apptronik", "country": "United States", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "form": "biped", "announced": "2023-08", "status": "pilot", "intendedUse": "Warehouse and factory work; Google DeepMind's main humanoid body", "tagline": "The friendly-faced Texan humanoid running Gemini Robotics, piloting at Mercedes-Benz and GXO ahead of a 2027 commercial model.", "overview": [ "Apollo is Apptronik's general-purpose humanoid, developed in Austin with lineage back to NASA's Valkyrie program. Designed around swappable batteries, a 25 kilogram payload target and a deliberately approachable design language, Apollo has become the hardware face of Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models under a partnership announced in December 2024.", "In 2026 the program scaled: a $520 million raise in February at a valuation around $5 billion (total Series A funding above $935 million), Apollo 2 fleets working in designated areas at Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics and Jabil, and 'Robot Park,' a 90,000 square foot data factory in Austin unveiled in June 2026 where fleets generate training data. Apollo 2 comes in bipedal and wheeled-base configurations.", "CEO Jeff Cardenas is explicit that current deployments are pilots and data collection: Apollo 3, expected in 2027, is planned as the first true commercial product." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "No commercial sales; pilots and partnerships only" }, "availability": { "status": "pilot", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "United States (pilot sites)" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise partnerships", "expectedDelivery": "Apollo 3 commercial launch expected 2027", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Pilot fleets at Mercedes-Benz, GXO and Jabil facilities; no commercial sales", "evidence": "real-world-demo" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 173, "weightKg": 73, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking; wheeled-base variant of Apollo 2 exists", "payload": "25 kg (design target)", "runtime": "About 4 hours per swappable battery", "charging": "Hot-swappable battery packs", "maxSpeed": "Walking pace", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not fully disclosed", "hands": "Modular end effectors and dexterous hands in development", "face": "Friendly display face used for status and intent", "sensors": "Perception suite of cameras and depth sensors" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics models plus Apptronik control stack", "voice": "Demonstration-level voice interaction", "languages": "English", "visualRecognition": "Object and task recognition via Gemini Robotics", "memory": "Task orchestration", "processing": "Onboard compute with cloud training loop", "autonomy": "Pilot-site material handling; heavy data-collection focus", "teleoperation": "Used extensively to generate training data", "updates": "Continuous model iteration", "developerAccess": "Partner program" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Case and tote handling in factories and warehouses", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Pilot supervision; teleoperation for data collection", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Voice interaction via Gemini", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None claimed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Workplace protocols", "sensorKillSwitch": "Site controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "Industrial e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable (industrial)", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 2, "physical": 7, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": null, "availability": 3, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "A top-tier program still explicitly pre-commercial by its own CEO's framing.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2023-08", "status": "prototype", "note": "Apollo unveiled" }, { "date": "2024-03", "status": "pilot", "note": "Mercedes-Benz pilot announced" }, { "date": "2024-12", "status": "pilot", "note": "Google DeepMind partnership" }, { "date": "2026-02", "status": "pilot", "note": "$520M raise at about $5B valuation" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "pilot", "note": "Robot Park data factory; Apollo 2 revealed; Apollo 3 teased for 2027" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Apptronik raises $520 million at $5 billion valuation", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/apptronik-raises-520-million-at-5-billion-valuation-for-apollo-robot.html", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-02-11" }, { "title": "Welcome to Robot Park", "url": "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/30/3319598/0/en/welcome-to-robot-park-where-apptronik-s-apollo-goes-to-work-training-the-next-generation-of-humanoid-robot-intelligence.html", "publisher": "GlobeNewswire", "date": "2026-06-30" }, { "title": "Apptronik partners with Google DeepMind robotics", "url": "https://apptronik.com/news-collection/apptronik-partners-with-google-deepmind-robotics", "publisher": "Apptronik", "date": "2024-12" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Apptronik" }, { "slug": "pal-ari", "name": "ARI", "aliases": [ "PAL Robotics ARI" ], "company": "pal-robotics", "country": "Spain", "category": "social-robots", "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2019-09", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Reception, healthcare engagement and human-robot-interaction research", "tagline": "Barcelona's wheeled social humanoid, a fixture of European research labs and reception desks.", "overview": [ "ARI is PAL Robotics' social humanoid: a 165 centimeter wheeled robot with expressive eyes, gesture arms and a touchscreen on its chest, built for receptions, healthcare settings and research. PAL, a Barcelona company building humanoids since 2004, sells ARI alongside its TIAGo research robots and heavier platforms.", "ARI is quote-priced and genuinely available, with years of shipments to European research institutions and EU-funded human-robot-interaction projects. An updated datasheet in February 2025 confirmed the current configuration: onboard NVIDIA GPU, face and skeleton tracking, multilingual speech and full ROS support.", "ARI represents the pragmatic European approach to social robots: wheels, a screen, open software and no promises of chores." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Quote only (B2B)", "note": "Third-party estimates vary widely; historically tens of thousands of euros" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "Worldwide (B2B)" ], "orderChannel": "Direct from PAL Robotics", "expectedDelivery": "Built to order", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Years of deliveries to research institutions and EU projects", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 165, "weightKg": 60, "locomotion": "Differential-drive wheeled base", "payload": "Gesture arms; light object handling", "runtime": "About 8 hours (claimed)", "charging": "Dock or plug-in", "maxSpeed": "1.5 m/s", "degreesOfFreedom": "Arms 4 DoF each plus head and base", "hands": "Simple hands for gesture", "face": "LED eyes with expressions; chest touchscreen", "sensors": "RGB-D head camera, chest camera, microphone array, laser rangefinder" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "ROS-based PAL software stack; NVIDIA GPU onboard; LLM integrations configurable", "voice": "Multilingual speech recognition and synthesis", "languages": "30+ configurable", "visualRecognition": "Face and skeleton tracking, gaze estimation", "memory": "Application dependent", "processing": "Onboard GPU; cloud optional", "autonomy": "Autonomous navigation, greeting and dialogue within applications", "teleoperation": "Full programmatic and operator control available", "updates": "Vendor supported", "developerAccess": "Excellent: ROS-native, documented APIs" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Multilingual reception and engagement dialogue", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Application scripting", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Telepresence and remote-operator modes", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "teleoperated", "humanIntervention": "Operator driven when used this way", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "Research and teaching platform", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Researcher programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Customer controlled; on-premises processing possible", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Deployment dependent", "sensorKillSwitch": "Programmatic control", "dataDeletion": "Customer responsibility", "accountRequired": "No", "emergencyStop": "Hardware e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Low-speed wheeled design for public spaces", "securityUpdates": "Vendor supported" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 6, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": 6, "availability": 7, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "A dependable B2B social platform; unscored on value without public pricing.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2019-09", "status": "public-demo", "note": "ARI introduced" }, { "date": "2020-06", "status": "available", "note": "Shipments to research customers" }, { "date": "2025-02", "status": "available", "note": "Updated datasheet; continued sales" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "PAL Robotics ARI product page", "url": "https://pal-robotics.com/robot/ari/", "publisher": "PAL Robotics", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "ARI datasheet", "url": "https://pal-robotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ARI-Datasheet.pdf", "publisher": "PAL Robotics", "date": "2025-02" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "PAL Robotics" }, { "slug": "realbotix-aria", "name": "Aria", "aliases": [ "Realbotix Aria", "F-Series" ], "company": "realbotix", "country": "United States", "category": "realistic-androids", "secondaryCategories": [ "romantic-companions", "social-robots" ], "form": "android", "announced": "2025-01", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Companionship, brand engagement and front-of-house roles", "tagline": "The hyper-realistic android that stole CES 2025, now actually shipping in small numbers to customers including Ericsson.", "overview": [ "Aria is Realbotix's flagship humanlike android: silicone skin, humanlike facial articulation, eye contact, and AI conversation designed for connection rather than chores. She debuted at CES 2025 with a wave of coverage quoting $175,000 for the full-bodied version, and returned at CES 2026 as, in company framing, the world's first AI robot board advisor.", "Realbotix, the publicly traded descendant of the RealDoll robotics project (TSXV: XBOT), has since formalized its lineup into three tiers: the B-Series bust from $20,000, the M-Series modular from $95,000 and the F-Series full body on a wheeled base from $125,000, with a $199.99 per month software subscription. Faces are swappable and appearances customizable.", "Unusually for this category, deliveries are documented: a humanoid staffing a Las Vegas ticket kiosk since August 2025, 19 ordered robots scheduled for delivery March through May 2026, and a Vinci-equipped unit delivered to telecom giant Ericsson in April 2026. Quarterly robotics revenue remains modest (about $225,000 in the quarter ending March 2026), which is the honest scale of the realistic-android business today." ], "realityCheck": [ "Aria converses via LLM integration, tracks faces, and remembers users; her arms gesture but do not manipulate, and the full-body version rolls rather than walks. The product delivers presence, not labor. Realbotix positions companionship broadly, from trade-show staffing to personal connection; intimacy-adjacent uses inherited from the RealDoll lineage are no longer the marketing lead." ], "privacyNote": [ "A companion that remembers you is a data product. Realbotix conversations run through its subscription AI platform; the company publishes little about retention, training use or deletion. For a machine marketed on emotional connection, those policies deserve scrutiny before purchase." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 125000, "display": "From $20,000 (bust) to $125,000+ (full body)", "note": "B-Series $20k, M-Series $95k, F-Series $125k starting prices plus $199.99/month AI subscription; customization extra" }, "priceHistory": [ { "date": "2025-01", "display": "$175,000", "amountUSD": 175000, "note": "CES 2025 debut price, full-bodied version" }, { "date": "2026-07", "display": "From $125,000", "amountUSD": 125000, "note": "F-Series full-body starting price in the current tiered lineup" } ], "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "United States", "International by arrangement" ], "orderChannel": "Direct from Realbotix (quote and configuration)", "expectedDelivery": "Months-scale build and delivery", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Las Vegas kiosk deployment (Aug 2025); 19 robots scheduled Mar-May 2026; Ericsson delivery April 8, 2026", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 170, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Full body: wheeled base; bust and modular versions stationary", "payload": "Gesture arms only", "runtime": "Hours per charge; mains operation supported", "charging": "Plug-in", "maxSpeed": "Slow indoor movement", "degreesOfFreedom": "44 in F-Series (company figure)", "hands": "Articulated for gesture", "face": "Swappable hyper-realistic faces; humanlike micro-expression and lip sync; magnetic face system", "sensors": "Camera eyes with Vinci vision and eye-tracking system (2026), microphones" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Realbotix AI platform with LLM conversation; Vinci vision system from April 2026", "voice": "Open-ended conversation with lip sync", "languages": "English primarily; others configurable", "visualRecognition": "Face recognition and eye tracking (Vinci)", "memory": "Persistent user memory marketed as core feature", "processing": "Cloud AI with local control ($199.99/month subscription)", "autonomy": "Autonomous conversation; no physical task autonomy", "teleoperation": "Operator modes for events", "updates": "Subscription software updates", "developerAccess": "Limited; enterprise integrations" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Personalized conversation with persistent memory", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None in AI mode; operator modes exist", "notes": "Public 'Ask Aria' web version launched September 2025", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Trade-show, kiosk and brand-ambassador roles", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Venue configuration", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Operator-driven appearances", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "teleoperated", "humanIntervention": "By design when used", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Conversations processed via Realbotix cloud platform; retention not publicly detailed", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not standardized", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power and app controls", "dataDeletion": "Not publicly detailed", "accountRequired": "Yes, subscription account", "emergencyStop": "Power controls; low physical risk (no strong actuators)", "childPetSafety": "Adult-oriented product; stationary or slow-rolling", "securityUpdates": "Subscription-based updates" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 7, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": 4, "availability": 7, "value": 3 }, "scoreNotes": "Availability credits real, documented deliveries at small scale. Value reflects six-figure pricing for presence without physical utility.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-01", "status": "public-demo", "note": "CES 2025 debut at $175,000" }, { "date": "2025-08", "status": "pilot", "note": "First public-facing business deployment (Tix4 kiosk, Las Vegas)" }, { "date": "2026-04", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "19 robots in delivery; Ericsson receives first Vinci-equipped unit" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Realbotix robots page (B/M/F series pricing)", "url": "https://www.realbotix.com/robots", "publisher": "Realbotix", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "Realbotix CES 2025 update", "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250115690741/en/Realbotix-CES-2025-Update", "publisher": "Business Wire", "date": "2025-01-15" }, { "title": "Realbotix AI humanoid delivery update", "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260401556942/en/Realbotix-Provides-AI-Humanoid-Robot-Delivery-Update", "publisher": "Business Wire", "date": "2026-04-01" }, { "title": "Realbotix Q2 2026 financial results", "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260529980485/en/Realbotix-Reports-Financial-Results-for-Q2-2026", "publisher": "Business Wire", "date": "2026-05-29" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "The widely quoted $175,000 price is the CES 2025 figure; current official tiers start lower", "Whether all 19 scheduled robots were delivered by end of May 2026 is unconfirmed" ], "companyName": "Realbotix" }, { "slug": "asimo", "name": "ASIMO", "aliases": [ "Honda ASIMO" ], "company": "honda", "country": "Japan", "category": "developer-platforms", "secondaryCategories": [ "social-robots" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2000-10", "status": "discontinued", "intendedUse": "Research and public demonstration of bipedal robotics", "tagline": "The robot that made humanoids real: two decades of Honda engineering that every machine on this site descends from.", "overview": [ "ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) was Honda's astronaut-suited humanoid, unveiled in 2000 after 14 years of secret bipedal research. It was the first robot to convince the public that walking machines were possible: climbing stairs, running (since 2004), pouring drinks, conducting orchestras and greeting presidents across two decades of appearances.", "Honda ended development in 2018 and retired ASIMO's regular public shows in 2022. The program's legacy runs through the entire field: its balance control research seeded modern humanoid locomotion, and Honda revived the name in 2025 for ASIMO OS, the software platform of its 0 Series electric vehicles, announced at CES.", "ASIMO was never for sale; a handful of high-profile leases (reportedly around $150,000 or more per month in the 2000s) put it at corporate events. It appears in this database as the origin point of the industry's timeline." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Never sold", "note": "Corporate leases only in its era" }, "availability": { "status": "discontinued", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None", "expectedDelivery": "Not applicable", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Decades of public demonstrations; museum appearances continue", "evidence": "real-world-demo" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 130, "weightKg": 48, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking and running (9 km/h)", "payload": "About 1 kg per hand (final generation)", "runtime": "About 40-60 minutes", "charging": "Battery swap by handlers", "maxSpeed": "9 km/h running", "degreesOfFreedom": "57 (final generation)", "hands": "Multi-finger hands capable of sign language and pouring", "face": "Visor helmet; no face by design", "sensors": "Stereo cameras, force sensors, IMU" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Honda proprietary control systems; pre-deep-learning era autonomy", "voice": "Recognized commands; spoke scripted lines; sign language", "languages": "Japanese, English", "visualRecognition": "Face and gesture recognition of its era", "memory": "Programmed behaviors", "processing": "Onboard", "autonomy": "Autonomous walking, navigation and routines; shows were choreographed", "teleoperation": "Handler control common in appearances", "updates": "Program ended", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Two decades of legendary public demonstrations", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Choreographed shows with handler oversight", "lastVerified": "2022-03" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "Inspired a generation of roboticists", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Museum programs", "lastVerified": "2022-03" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not applicable", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Handler presence visible at shows", "sensorKillSwitch": "Handler controlled", "dataDeletion": "Not applicable", "accountRequired": "Not applicable", "emergencyStop": "Handler controlled", "childPetSafety": "Supervised appearances only", "securityUpdates": "Not applicable" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 5, "physical": 5, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": null, "availability": 0, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Scored against 2026 standards, which its research made possible.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2000-10", "status": "research", "note": "ASIMO unveiled" }, { "date": "2004-12", "status": "research", "note": "First running humanoid" }, { "date": "2018-06", "status": "discontinued", "note": "Development ends" }, { "date": "2022-03", "status": "discontinued", "note": "Final regular public performances retired" }, { "date": "2025-01", "status": "discontinued", "note": "Name revived as ASIMO OS for Honda 0 Series EVs" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "ASIMO history", "url": "https://global.honda/en/tech/robotics/", "publisher": "Honda", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "ASIMO overview", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Honda" }, { "slug": "astribot-s1", "name": "Astribot S1", "aliases": [ "Stardust S1" ], "company": "astribot", "country": "China", "category": "domestic-helpers", "secondaryCategories": [ "developer-platforms" ], "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2024-04", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Service and research assistant with high-speed manipulation", "tagline": "The wheeled assistant whose impossibly fast arms went viral flipping pancakes, now sold to enterprises worldwide.", "overview": [ "The S1 from Astribot (Shenzhen's Stardust Intelligence) announced itself in April 2024 with a demo reel of arm speed nobody else could match: opening bottles, flipping food, pulling tablecloths from under stacked glasses and writing calligraphy, with claimed arm speeds around 10 meters per second and roughly 10 kilograms of payload per arm. The torso rides a wheeled base.", "Commercial availability began in China in late 2025 with international rollout through 2026; aggregator pricing puts early deployments between roughly $96,000 and $150,000, with no official list price. In May 2026 Astribot added the T1, a compact sibling from about $13,000, aimed at the developer market.", "The S1's demos are choreographed showcases, and Astribot has published little about sustained autonomous work; its manipulation hardware, though, is widely regarded as among the fastest built." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "About $96,000-150,000 (unofficial)", "note": "Aggregator pricing; enterprise quotes in practice. T1 sibling from about $13,000 (May 2026)" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China", "International rollout through 2026" ], "orderChannel": "Astribot enterprise sales", "expectedDelivery": "Built to order", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Commercial deployments since late 2025 per trade coverage; volumes unpublished", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 170, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Wheeled base", "payload": "About 10 kg per arm (claimed)", "runtime": "Hours-scale", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Arms about 10 m/s (claimed); base at indoor speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not fully published", "hands": "Grippers and dexterous options", "face": "Screen head", "sensors": "RGB-D cameras" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Astribot imitation-learning stack", "voice": "Demonstration-level interaction", "languages": "Chinese, English demos", "visualRecognition": "Object recognition for manipulation", "memory": "Task models", "processing": "Onboard plus cloud", "autonomy": "Choreographed task demos; sustained autonomy unpublished", "teleoperation": "Used for training and demos", "updates": "OTA", "developerAccess": "SDK for enterprise and research buyers" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cooking", "claim": "Food preparation demos: flipping, pouring, plating", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Teleoperation and choreography; split undisclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Household tidying demonstrations", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Calligraphy, dart throwing, showpiece dexterity", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "E-stop", "childPetSafety": "High-speed arms demand caution; industrial-style safety", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 2, "physical": 7, "autonomy": 3, "privacy": null, "availability": 4, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Extraordinary hardware, opaque autonomy: the archetypal controlled-demo robot.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-04", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Viral S1 demo reel" }, { "date": "2025-11", "status": "available", "note": "Commercial availability begins in China" }, { "date": "2026-05", "status": "available", "note": "Compact T1 sibling launches from about $13,000" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Astribot launches compact T1", "url": "https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/humanoid-robot-china-video", "publisher": "Interesting Engineering", "date": "2026-05" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Arm speed, payload and pricing rest on company statements and aggregator reporting" ], "companyName": "Astribot (Stardust Intelligence)" }, { "slug": "amazon-astro", "name": "Astro", "aliases": [ "Amazon Astro" ], "company": "amazon", "country": "United States", "category": "domestic-helpers", "form": "rover", "announced": "2021-09", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Home monitoring, telepresence and Alexa on wheels", "tagline": "Amazon's invite-only home rover: the closest thing the US has to a mainstream home robot, and a case study in staying niche.", "overview": [ "Astro is a wheeled home robot with a periscope camera, a screen for a face and Alexa for a brain. Announced in September 2021 as a $999 Day 1 Edition, it has been sold by invitation ever since, now at $1,599. It patrols the house on schedules, investigates sounds, carries video calls from room to room and doubles as a roving security camera through Ring integration.", "Amazon killed Astro for Business in July 2024 after about eight months, saying it would refocus on the home version. Since then the product has lived in limbo: owner communities reported the listing briefly vanishing in January 2026, but as of May 2026 it remains purchasable by invite at $1,599. Astro is the only home robot in this database with years of ordinary-household use behind it, which makes its owner-verified capabilities a useful baseline for every humanoid promise." ], "realityCheck": [ "Astro does what it claims: patrol, check-ins, video calls, Alexa. Owners' consistent complaints are about what it does not do: no arms, no stairs, and after nearly five years Amazon has shipped no major capability leap. Its real value is as evidence of what a camera on wheels is worth in a home, which is roughly $1,599 to a niche of enthusiasts." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 1599, "display": "$1,599 (invite only)", "note": "Day 1 Editions program; requires Amazon invitation" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "United States" ], "orderChannel": "Amazon.com, by invitation", "expectedDelivery": "Ships to invited buyers", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Sold to consumers since late 2021; active owner community", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 60, "weightKg": 9.3, "locomotion": "Two-wheel drive base with caster", "payload": "About 2 kg in rear cargo bin", "runtime": "About 2 hours active; self-docks to charge", "charging": "Self-docking charge station", "maxSpeed": "About 1 m/s", "degreesOfFreedom": "Periscope camera mast, screen tilt, no arms", "hands": "None", "face": "Screen with animated eyes; expressive sounds", "sensors": "Periscope camera (1080p), navigation cameras, ultrasonic sensors, microphones" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Alexa plus on-device 'Intelligent Motion' navigation", "voice": "Full Alexa voice assistant", "languages": "English", "visualRecognition": "Visual ID face recognition (optional) for finding specific people", "memory": "Knows home layout, recognizes enrolled household members", "processing": "Navigation largely on-device; Alexa queries in the cloud", "autonomy": "Fully autonomous patrol, navigation and self-charging", "teleoperation": "Owner can remotely drive Astro via app when away", "updates": "Regular OTA updates", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "security", "claim": "Autonomous home patrol with alerts and Ring integration", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None required", "lastVerified": "2026-05" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Mobile video calls; owner can drive it remotely", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Remote driving is by the owner, by design", "lastVerified": "2026-05" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Alexa voice assistant on wheels", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-05" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Follows you with music, expressive personality", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-05" }, { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Alexa Together remote-care integration for aging relatives", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Family members receive alerts", "lastVerified": "2026-05" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Video processed locally for navigation; clips and calls go through Amazon cloud under Alexa/Ring policies", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Remote viewing/driving is owner-initiated; periscope shows on-screen indicators", "sensorKillSwitch": "Physical mic/camera off button; out-of-bounds zones and do-not-disturb", "dataDeletion": "Alexa privacy dashboard deletion controls", "accountRequired": "Amazon account required", "emergencyStop": "Stop via button, app or voice", "childPetSafety": "Obstacle avoidance around kids and pets; Amazon publishes safety guidance", "securityUpdates": "Amazon device update policy; no published end-of-support date" }, "scores": { "home": 3, "social": 4, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 7, "privacy": 7, "availability": 5, "value": 4 }, "scoreNotes": "The autonomy and privacy scores reflect shipped, documented, owner-tested features rather than promises; availability is capped by the invite gate.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2021-09", "status": "preorder", "note": "Announced as $999 invite-only Day 1 Edition" }, { "date": "2021-12", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "First units reach customers" }, { "date": "2024-07", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Astro for Business discontinued; consumer version continues" }, { "date": "2026-05", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Still invite-only at $1,599; future uncertain" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Home robots you can actually buy in 2026", "url": "https://the-gadgeteer.com/2026/05/20/home-robots-available-2026/", "publisher": "The Gadgeteer", "date": "2026-05-20" }, { "title": "Amazon discontinues Astro for Business", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/03/amazon-discontinues-astro-for-business-security-robot/", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2024-07-03" }, { "title": "Amazon Astro product listing", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-Astro/dp/B078NSDFSB", "publisher": "Amazon", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Amazon" }, { "slug": "boston-dynamics-atlas", "name": "Atlas", "aliases": [ "Electric Atlas", "Production Atlas" ], "company": "boston-dynamics", "country": "United States", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "developer-platforms" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-04", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Manufacturing work, starting with Hyundai; AI research fleets", "tagline": "The most athletically capable humanoid ever built, now a production machine whose entire 2026 output is claimed by Hyundai and Google DeepMind.", "overview": [ "Atlas is robotics royalty. The hydraulic version spent a decade doing backflips and parkour as the world's most-watched research robot; the all-electric successor unveiled in April 2024 traded theatrics for work, with 360-degree joint range and superhuman range of motion. At CES on January 5, 2026, Boston Dynamics unveiled the production version and announced manufacturing had begun at its Boston headquarters.", "The entire 2026 production run is committed to two customers: Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) in Georgia, a data factory for training manufacturing skills, and Google DeepMind, whose Gemini Robotics foundation models are being put on Atlas under a partnership announced the same day. Additional customers are planned for 2027; Hyundai's roadmap has Atlas doing parts sequencing by 2028 and complex assembly by 2030, with a plant capable of 30,000 robots per year.", "Atlas also carries the field's research pedigree: an August 2025 collaboration with Toyota Research Institute demonstrated a Large Behavior Model performing long-horizon packing and sorting with whole-body control." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Enterprise fleets only; 2026 output fully committed" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "United States (Hyundai RMAC, Google DeepMind)" ], "orderChannel": "None open; 2027 customers planned", "expectedDelivery": "2026 fleets shipping to two committed customers", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Production started January 2026; fleets committed and shipping to RMAC and Google DeepMind (completion of deliveries not yet publicly confirmed)", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 150, "weightKg": 89, "locomotion": "Bipedal, with 360-degree joint rotation enabling non-human poses", "payload": "25 kg class (company statements)", "runtime": "Swappable battery, hours-scale shifts", "charging": "Battery swap and dock", "maxSpeed": "Fast walking; famous dynamic mobility", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not fully published; extreme range of motion per joint", "hands": "Three-finger and dexterous gripper options", "face": "Ring light head; no face", "sensors": "Cameras, depth sensors, force sensing throughout" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Boston Dynamics AI stack; Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics (2026 partnership); TRI Large Behavior Models (research)", "voice": "Not a product feature", "languages": "Not applicable", "visualRecognition": "Part and fixture recognition", "memory": "Task models", "processing": "Onboard with fleet learning", "autonomy": "Long-horizon manipulation shown in research demos; factory autonomy in development at RMAC", "teleoperation": "Research and training use", "updates": "Fleet software", "developerAccess": "Partner research programs" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Parts sequencing, sorting and material handling", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Research settings; factory rollout staged through 2028-2030", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "The industry's defining viral athletics", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Choreographed but genuinely autonomous execution", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Workplace protocols", "sensorKillSwitch": "Site controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "Industrial e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable (industrial)", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 1, "physical": 9, "autonomy": 7, "privacy": null, "availability": 3, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Physical capability is the database ceiling. Availability reflects a production robot nobody outside two customers can obtain.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2013-07", "status": "research", "note": "Hydraulic Atlas debuts (DARPA program)" }, { "date": "2024-04", "status": "prototype", "note": "All-electric Atlas unveiled; hydraulic version retired" }, { "date": "2025-08", "status": "prototype", "note": "TRI Large Behavior Model collaboration demo" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Production Atlas unveiled at CES; manufacturing begins; 2026 fleets committed to Hyundai RMAC and Google DeepMind" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Boston Dynamics' next-gen humanoid will have Google DeepMind DNA", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/boston-dynamicss-next-gen-humanoid-robot-will-have-google-deepmind-dna/", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2026-01-05" }, { "title": "Boston Dynamics, Google reunite on next-gen Atlas", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-google-reunite-on-next-gen-atlas-humanoid/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2026-01-05" }, { "title": "AI-powered robot by Boston Dynamics and TRI", "url": "https://pressroom.toyota.com/ai-powered-robot-by-boston-dynamics-and-toyota-research-institute-takes-a-key-step-towards-general-purpose-humanoids/", "publisher": "Toyota Pressroom", "date": "2025-08" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Whether 2026 deliveries to RMAC and DeepMind have physically completed is not publicly confirmed" ], "companyName": "Boston Dynamics" }, { "slug": "samsung-ballie", "name": "Ballie", "aliases": [ "Samsung Ballie" ], "company": "samsung", "country": "South Korea", "category": "domestic-helpers", "secondaryCategories": [ "desktop-companions" ], "form": "ball", "announced": "2020-01", "status": "discontinued", "intendedUse": "Rolling home companion with projector and smart-home control", "tagline": "Samsung's rolling projector companion, announced three times across six years and shelved indefinitely without a single unit sold.", "overview": [ "Ballie debuted at CES 2020 as a tennis-ball-sized rolling companion, returned at CES 2024 grown to bowling-ball size with a projector, and was re-announced at CES 2025 with Google Gemini integration and a promised 2025 launch in Korea and the United States. That launch never came.", "After missing its first-half 2025 window and slipping repeatedly through the year, Bloomberg reported on January 7, 2026 that Ballie had been shelved indefinitely; it was absent from CES 2026, and by March 2026 its page had been removed from samsung.com. Samsung now describes Ballie as an internal innovation platform for spatial and ambient AI work.", "No price or full specification sheet was ever published, and no consumer ever bought one. Ballie remains the clearest recent example of why this site records a product's status history: six years of headlines described a home robot that never existed as a product." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Never priced", "note": "Speculation ran around $1,000+; Samsung never announced pricing" }, "availability": { "status": "discontinued", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None; sign-up page removed", "expectedDelivery": "Cancelled", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None, ever", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": null, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Rolling spherical body", "payload": "None", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Not disclosed", "maxSpeed": "Not disclosed", "degreesOfFreedom": "Rolling drive plus projector gimbal", "hands": "None", "face": "Projector used for expressions and content", "sensors": "Cameras, microphones, spatial sensors (as demonstrated)" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Google Gemini integration announced at CES 2025", "voice": "Conversational assistant demonstrated", "languages": "Korean and English demonstrated", "visualRecognition": "Pet and home monitoring demonstrated", "memory": "Not disclosed", "processing": "Cloud-dependent design", "autonomy": "Follow, patrol and projection routines in demos", "teleoperation": "Not disclosed", "updates": "Not applicable", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Projects video onto walls and floors, follows you around", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Staged demos only", "lastVerified": "2026-01" }, { "capability": "security", "claim": "Home and pet monitoring", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-01" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Gemini-powered conversation", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-01" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Never documented", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Never documented", "sensorKillSwitch": "Never documented", "dataDeletion": "Never documented", "accountRequired": "Samsung account expected; never documented", "emergencyStop": "Never documented", "childPetSafety": "Never documented", "securityUpdates": "Never documented" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 3, "physical": 2, "autonomy": 2, "privacy": null, "availability": 0, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Scores reflect a product that was demonstrated for six years and never shipped.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2020-01", "status": "concept", "note": "First shown at CES 2020" }, { "date": "2024-01", "status": "prototype", "note": "Redesigned Ballie with projector at CES 2024; '2024 launch' claimed" }, { "date": "2025-01", "status": "public-demo", "note": "CES 2025 re-announcement with Gemini; first-half 2025 launch promised" }, { "date": "2025-12", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Still delayed after missing every 2025 window" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "discontinued", "note": "Bloomberg: shelved indefinitely; absent from CES 2026; page later removed from samsung.com" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Samsung's rolling Ballie robot indefinitely shelved after delays", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07/samsung-s-rolling-ballie-robot-indefinitely-shelved-after-delays", "publisher": "Bloomberg", "date": "2026-01-07" }, { "title": "Why Samsung still hasn't shipped Ballie after six years", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/03/30/why-samsung-still-hasnt-shipped-ballie-after-six-years/", "publisher": "Forbes", "date": "2026-03-30" }, { "title": "Samsung Ballie still delayed", "url": "https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/samsung-ballie-still-delayed-again/", "publisher": "9to5Google", "date": "2025-12-08" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Samsung Electronics" }, { "slug": "booster-t1", "name": "Booster T1", "aliases": [ "Booster Robotics T1" ], "company": "booster-robotics", "country": "China", "category": "developer-platforms", "secondaryCategories": [ "education-entertainment" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-10", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Research, education and RoboCup competition", "tagline": "The sturdy little biped that became the standard body of RoboCup's humanoid soccer leagues.", "overview": [ "Booster Robotics' T1 is a 1.18 meter, 30 kilogram humanoid built to survive exactly the abuse student developers deliver: falls, collisions and soccer. It has become the de facto standard platform in RoboCup humanoid leagues and ships to university labs worldwide, with third-party pricing around $22,000.", "The T1's pitch is durability and serviceability rather than acrobatics: it gets up quickly, takes impacts, and exposes a full SDK. Booster, founded by former Tsinghua RoboCup competitors, updates the platform against the rhythm of the academic and competition calendar." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 22000, "display": "About $22,000", "note": "Third-party database figure; quotes via Booster and distributors" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide via distributors" ], "orderChannel": "Booster Robotics and distributors", "expectedDelivery": "Weeks-scale", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Units shipped to university labs and RoboCup teams; used in competition play", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 118, "weightKg": 30, "locomotion": "Bipedal; robust fall recovery, soccer play", "payload": "Light loads", "runtime": "About 1-2 hours by use", "charging": "Swappable battery", "maxSpeed": "Jogging pace", "degreesOfFreedom": "23", "hands": "Simple grippers", "face": "Sensor visor", "sensors": "Stereo cameras, IMU" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Booster SDK; ROS support; RoboCup software ecosystem", "voice": "Developer configured", "languages": "Developer configured", "visualRecognition": "Developer configured (ball and player tracking common)", "memory": "Developer configured", "processing": "Onboard compute", "autonomy": "Autonomous soccer play as programmed by teams", "teleoperation": "Supported", "updates": "Firmware", "developerAccess": "Open SDK" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "education", "claim": "University and competition platform", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Developer programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "RoboCup soccer matches", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None during play", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Owner controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner is the operator", "sensorKillSwitch": "Owner controlled", "dataDeletion": "Owner controlled", "accountRequired": "No", "emergencyStop": "Remote e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Small and light; supervision still required", "securityUpdates": "Firmware updates" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 2, "physical": 5, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": 5, "availability": 7, "value": 6 }, "scoreNotes": "A dependable niche platform priced between R1 and G1 EDU tiers.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-10", "status": "public-demo", "note": "T1 introduced" }, { "date": "2025-07", "status": "available", "note": "Widespread RoboCup adoption" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Booster T1 database entry", "url": "https://botmarket24.com/en/robot-database/booster-t1/", "publisher": "BotMarket", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "Booster T1 listing", "url": "https://humanoid.guide/product/booster-t1/", "publisher": "Humanoid Guide", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Official pricing is not published; the $22,000 figure is from aggregator databases" ], "companyName": "Booster Robotics" }, { "slug": "wandercraft-calvin-40", "name": "Calvin-40", "aliases": [ "Wandercraft Calvin" ], "company": "wandercraft", "country": "France", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "form": "biped", "announced": "2025-06", "status": "pilot", "intendedUse": "Automotive plant logistics and handling", "tagline": "The headless French biped born from exoskeleton engineering, with a 350-unit Renault commitment behind it.", "overview": [ "Calvin-40 is the industrial humanoid from Wandercraft, the Paris company best known for Atalante, its self-balancing medical exoskeleton that has helped paralyzed patients walk since 2019. That balance pedigree translated directly: Calvin, unveiled in June 2025 with Renault as partner and minority investor, is a roughly 1.7 meter biped that skips the head entirely, because a warehouse robot needs balance and hands more than a face.", "Renault turned the pilot into one of Europe's largest humanoid commitments in March 2026: 350 Calvin humanoids across French and Spanish plants within about 18 months, with Calvin-40 units already operational at the Douai plant and around ten robots targeted there by the end of 2026.", "Calvin is not sold openly; it exists inside the Renault partnership and Wandercraft's industrial program." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Partnership deployments; no open sales channel" }, "availability": { "status": "pilot", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "France", "Spain (planned)" ], "orderChannel": "Renault partnership; enterprise programs", "expectedDelivery": "350 units across Renault plants targeted by end of 2027", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Operational at Renault Douai; 350-unit commitment announced March 2026", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 170, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking (headless design)", "payload": "Industrial handling loads; figures unpublished", "runtime": "Shift-oriented; details unpublished", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Factory walking speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not fully published", "hands": "Industrial grippers", "face": "None, deliberately", "sensors": "Vision and force sensing derived from exoskeleton stack" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Wandercraft control stack; dynamic balance heritage from Atalante exoskeletons", "voice": "None", "languages": "Not applicable", "visualRecognition": "Industrial part recognition", "memory": "Task models", "processing": "Onboard", "autonomy": "Plant logistics tasks under pilot supervision", "teleoperation": "Supported in development", "updates": "Fleet updates", "developerAccess": "Partnership only" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Parts handling and logistics at Renault Douai", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Pilot supervision; split undisclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Workplace protocols", "sensorKillSwitch": "Site controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "Industrial e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable (industrial)", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 0, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": null, "availability": 2, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "The Renault order is among Europe's strongest humanoid commitments; everything else stays inside the partnership.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-06", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Calvin unveiled with Renault partnership" }, { "date": "2026-03", "status": "pilot", "note": "Renault commits to 350 units; Douai operations confirmed" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Renault to deploy 350 Wandercraft Calvin humanoids", "url": "https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/renault-to-deploy-350-wandercraft-calvin-humanoids-in-industrial-speed-run", "publisher": "Humanoids Daily", "date": "2026-03-10" }, { "title": "Wandercraft unveils new industrial humanoid with Renault", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/wandercraft-unveils-new-industrial-humanoid-renault/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2025-06" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Wandercraft" }, { "slug": "lg-cloid", "name": "CLOiD", "aliases": [ "LG CLOiD" ], "company": "lg", "country": "South Korea", "category": "domestic-helpers", "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2026-01", "status": "public-demo", "intendedUse": "Household chores in LG's 'Zero Labor Home' vision", "tagline": "LG's laundry-folding home robot concept, star of CES 2026 and heir to the never-launched Q9.", "overview": [ "CLOiD is LG's home robot, presented at CES 2026 as the centerpiece of a 'Zero Labor Home': a wheeled robot with arms shown folding laundry and handling household tasks in booth demonstrations. It builds on the CLOi service-robot line and the Q9 AI-agent program, whose own planned 2025 Korea launch never visibly materialized.", "LG announced no price and no release date, and the company's home-robot history counsels patience: the Q9 reached beta testing with a developer site and a Microsoft AI partnership, then went quiet as a consumer product. CLOiD is best read as LG's statement of direction, backed by real appliance-scale manufacturing should it ever commit.", "Every capability shown so far is a trade-show demonstration." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced" }, "availability": { "status": "public-demo", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None", "expectedDelivery": "Not announced", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None; CES demonstrations only", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": null, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Wheeled base", "payload": "Household objects", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Dock expected", "maxSpeed": "Household speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "Dual arms; figures unpublished", "hands": "Grippers for laundry and household items", "face": "Friendly display face", "sensors": "Cameras; ThinQ smart-home integration" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "LG AI stack with Q9 agent lineage; Microsoft AI partnership announced for Q9", "voice": "Conversational assistant demonstrated", "languages": "Korean, English demos", "visualRecognition": "Object recognition in demos", "memory": "ThinQ household integration planned", "processing": "Hybrid expected", "autonomy": "Laundry folding and chores shown in controlled booth demos", "teleoperation": "Not disclosed", "updates": "Not applicable", "developerAccess": "Q9 developer site exists (q9.developer.lge.com)" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "laundry", "claim": "Folds laundry", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Household tidying", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Home AI agent conversation", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not disclosed", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not disclosed", "dataDeletion": "Not disclosed", "accountRequired": "ThinQ account expected", "emergencyStop": "Not disclosed", "childPetSafety": "Not disclosed", "securityUpdates": "Not disclosed" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 3, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 2, "privacy": null, "availability": 0, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "A concept with a conglomerate behind it; the Q9's quiet fade keeps our expectations calibrated.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-03", "status": "prototype", "note": "Q9 predecessor beta tests in Korea; consumer launch never confirmed" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "public-demo", "note": "CLOiD presented at CES 2026 with laundry-folding demos" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "LG presents CLOiD home robot at CES 2026", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lg-electronics-presents-lg-cloid-home-robot-to-demonstrate-zero-labor-home-at-ces-2026-302652068.html", "publisher": "PR Newswire", "date": "2026-01-04" }, { "title": "CES 2026 robot roundup", "url": "https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-robots-we-saw-at-ces-2026-the-lovable-the-creepy-and-the-utterly-confusing-153537930.html", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2026-01-10" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "LG Electronics" }, { "slug": "clone-alpha", "name": "Clone Alpha", "aliases": [ "Protoclone", "Clone Robotics Alpha" ], "company": "clone-robotics", "country": "Poland / United States", "category": "realistic-androids", "secondaryCategories": [ "home-humanoids" ], "form": "android", "announced": "2024-12", "status": "preorder", "intendedUse": "Home android (claimed); currently a research prototype line", "tagline": "A synthetic-anatomy android with a thousand artificial muscles, 279 preorder slots and, so far, demos performed hanging from a ceiling.", "overview": [ "Clone Robotics is building androids the hard way: synthetic bones, ligaments and roughly 1,000 water-hydraulic 'Myofiber' artificial muscles instead of electric motors in metal joints. Its Protoclone prototype, a faceless, twitching, anatomically humanlike figure suspended from the ceiling, became one of the most viral robot videos ever when unveiled in February 2025.", "Clone Alpha is the company's planned product: a limited edition of 279 androids 'designed for the home,' announced for preorder in 2025. Third-party listings cite about $20,000 or a deposit-plus-subscription model, but the official preorder page lists no price, no date and no sold-out notice, and no shipment to any customer has been documented.", "In January 2026 the company signaled a Silicon Valley move and continued to circulate new demo footage. The engineering is genuinely novel; the product remains a promise." ], "realityCheck": [ "Every public Protoclone demonstration shows the android suspended or supported; free standing, walking or useful manipulation has not been shown. The gap between 'muscles that move like a human's' and 'a robot that works in your home' is the entire unsolved problem of robotics. Treat Clone Alpha's home-android claims as aspiration until a unit performs unsupported work in public." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 20000, "display": "About $20,000 (unofficial)", "note": "Third-party figures: $20,000 outright or $200 deposit plus $499/month; official page lists no price" }, "availability": { "status": "preorder", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Preorder waitlist, worldwide" ], "orderChannel": "clonerobotics.com preorder page", "expectedDelivery": "Not announced", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None; no customer unit documented", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" }, "statusNote": "Limited run of 279 units claimed; whether slots have sold is unverified" }, "physical": { "heightCm": 175, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Bipedal skeleton; free walking not yet demonstrated", "payload": "Not demonstrated", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Not disclosed", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable yet", "degreesOfFreedom": "200+ (claimed), via musculoskeletal anatomy", "hands": "Anatomically humanlike hands with tendon muscles", "face": "Faceless in current prototypes", "sensors": "About 500 sensors (claimed): muscle pressure, position, vision" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "In-house 'Cybernet' control models (company statements)", "voice": "Planned", "languages": "Not applicable yet", "visualRecognition": "In development", "memory": "Not disclosed", "processing": "Not disclosed", "autonomy": "Muscle-level control demonstrated; task autonomy not shown", "teleoperation": "Development tool; not disclosed as product feature", "updates": "Not applicable", "developerAccess": "Not announced" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Marketing lists home tasks like laundry and sandwiches", "evidence": "not-demonstrated", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not applicable; capability not shown", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Viscerally lifelike anatomical movement", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Suspended/supported demos", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not disclosed", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not disclosed", "dataDeletion": "Not disclosed", "accountRequired": "Not disclosed", "emergencyStop": "Not disclosed", "childPetSafety": "Not disclosed", "securityUpdates": "Not disclosed" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 1, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 1, "privacy": null, "availability": 3, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Physical capability credits genuinely novel actuation research; every product-facing score awaits a working product.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-12", "status": "concept", "note": "Clone Alpha announced: 279-unit limited edition, preorders 'in 2025'" }, { "date": "2025-02", "status": "prototype", "note": "Protoclone V1 goes viral: about 1,000 Myofiber muscles, suspended demo" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "preorder", "note": "New footage circulates; Silicon Valley move and $20,000 price point reported" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Clone Robotics preorder page", "url": "https://clonerobotics.com/pre-order/", "publisher": "Clone Robotics", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "Protoclone viral unveiling", "url": "https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/humanoid-protoclone-robot-twitches-into-action-while-hanging-from-ceiling-in-viral-video", "publisher": "Live Science", "date": "2025-02" }, { "title": "Clone Robotics announces limited edition Clone Alpha", "url": "https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/clone-robotics-announces-limited-edition-clone-alpha-humanoid-robot-for-pre-order-in-2025", "publisher": "Humanoids Daily", "date": "2024-12" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "No source confirms the 279 preorder slots have been claimed or sold", "All pricing is third-party; the official page lists none" ], "companyName": "Clone Robotics" }, { "slug": "xiaomi-cyberone", "name": "CyberOne", "aliases": [ "Xiaomi CyberOne", "CyberOne V2" ], "company": "xiaomi", "country": "China", "category": "developer-platforms", "secondaryCategories": [ "social-robots" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2022-08", "status": "prototype", "intendedUse": "Internal factory validation, moving toward social roles", "tagline": "Xiaomi's on-again humanoid: quiet for years, back in 2026 with a factory-tested V2 and a bionic hand that sweats.", "overview": [ "CyberOne was Xiaomi's answer to Tesla's Optimus announcement: a 1.77 meter, 52 kilogram humanoid revealed by CEO Lei Jun in August 2022, then barely heard from for years while the company denied mass-production plans. Its estimated build cost at reveal was 600,000 to 700,000 yuan, and it was never sold.", "The program resurfaced in April 2026 at Xiaomi's Investor Day with CyberOne V2, which had quietly run automotive assembly pilots in Xiaomi's EV operations, reporting a 90.2 percent success rate on nut-fastening within a 76 second cycle across three-hour runs. V2's debut task, handing out gift bags to investors, signaled a pivot from factory validation toward social and home integration.", "Alongside V2, Xiaomi showed a 1:1-scale bionic hand with 22 to 27 degrees of freedom whose 3D-printed internal liquid-cooling channels work like sweat glands to cool its motors, one of the more inventive pieces of hand engineering in the industry." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not for sale", "note": "2022 build cost estimated at 600,000-700,000 yuan; no commercialization timeline" }, "availability": { "status": "prototype", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None", "expectedDelivery": "Not announced", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Internal pilots only", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 177, "weightKg": 52, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "1.5 kg per arm (2022 figures)", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Not disclosed", "maxSpeed": "3.6 km/h (2022 figures)", "degreesOfFreedom": "21 (2022); V2 figures unpublished", "hands": "New bionic hand: 22-27 DoF with liquid-cooling 'sweat' channels", "face": "Curved OLED face panel", "sensors": "Mi Sense depth vision, microphone array with emotion recognition (claimed)" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Xiaomi AI stack (HyperOS ecosystem)", "voice": "Emotion-aware voice interaction (claimed)", "languages": "Chinese", "visualRecognition": "Person and emotion recognition (claimed)", "memory": "Not disclosed", "processing": "Onboard", "autonomy": "Factory nut-fastening pilot at 90.2% success (company figure)", "teleoperation": "Development use", "updates": "Not applicable", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Emotion-aware conversation", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Staged demos", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Investor-day social interactions", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not applicable (no product)", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not applicable", "dataDeletion": "Not applicable", "accountRequired": "Not applicable", "emergencyStop": "Lab controlled", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable", "securityUpdates": "Not applicable" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 3, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": null, "availability": 0, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "A research program with interesting components and no product path announced.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2022-08", "status": "prototype", "note": "CyberOne revealed by Lei Jun" }, { "date": "2026-04", "status": "prototype", "note": "CyberOne V2 at Investor Day; factory pilot stats; social pivot" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Xiaomi debuts CyberOne V2 at Investor Day", "url": "https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/xiaomi-debuts-cyberone-v2-at-investor-day-moving-beyond-the-factory-floor", "publisher": "Humanoids Daily", "date": "2026-04" }, { "title": "Xiaomi's sweating bionic robotic hand", "url": "https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/xiaomi-cyberone-humanoid-robotic-hand", "publisher": "Interesting Engineering", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Xiaomi" }, { "slug": "agility-digit", "name": "Digit", "aliases": [ "Agility Digit", "Digit v4", "Digit v5" ], "company": "agility-robotics", "country": "United States", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "form": "biped", "announced": "2019-01", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Warehouse logistics: tote handling, sequencing, material movement", "tagline": "The humanoid with the most real paid work on record: about 75 units and 65,000+ hours across customer sites.", "overview": [ "Digit is the humanoid that skipped the hype cycle and went to work. Agility Robotics' bird-legged biped has been moving totes in customer facilities since 2024, making it the strongest deployment story in the industry: roughly 75 units installed and more than 65,000 hours across nine customer facilities as of mid-2026, under robots-as-a-service contracts with GXO Logistics (running continuously for over a year), Schaeffler's South Carolina plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada and Mercado Libre.", "Agility opened RoboFab in Salem, Oregon in 2023, billed as the world's first humanoid factory, and announced in June 2026 that it will go public via a $2.5 billion SPAC merger (Nasdaq: AGLT expected by end of 2026), the first pure-play US humanoid company to do so. Alongside the listing it detailed Digit v5: swappable hands, roughly 23 kilogram payload and a 'cooperatively safe' design, launching early 2027 with over $300 million in contracted orders.", "Digit is not a companion and Agility does not pretend otherwise. It appears in this database because it defines what verified humanoid deployment actually looks like, the benchmark every home-robot claim should be measured against." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "RaaS contracts (no list price)", "note": "Multi-year enterprise robots-as-a-service; $300M+ in Digit v5 orders disclosed June 2026" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "United States", "Canada" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise contracts with Agility", "expectedDelivery": "Digit v5 commercial launch targeted early 2027", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "About 75 units installed, 65,000+ hours across 9 customer facilities; named customers on record", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 175, "weightKg": 65, "locomotion": "Bipedal with reverse-articulated legs", "payload": "16 kg (current); about 23 kg for Digit v5 (claimed)", "runtime": "About 4 hours; autonomous dock charging", "charging": "Autonomous docking", "maxSpeed": "1.5 m/s", "degreesOfFreedom": "About 20 (v4 class)", "hands": "Simple end effectors today; swappable dexterous hands on v5 (claimed)", "face": "LED 'eyes' panel for signaling intent to human coworkers", "sensors": "Lidar, depth cameras, RGB cameras, force sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Agility Arc cloud orchestration; learned and engineered controllers; partnership work with NVIDIA", "voice": "None (status signaling instead)", "languages": "Not applicable", "visualRecognition": "Tote and fixture recognition", "memory": "Fleet task orchestration", "processing": "Onboard autonomy with cloud fleet management", "autonomy": "Full-shift autonomous tote handling at customer sites", "teleoperation": "Remote monitoring and exception handling via Agility Arc", "updates": "Fleet software updates", "developerAccess": "Enterprise APIs" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Moves totes and materials for full shifts", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Remote exception handling", "notes": "Logistics work, listed here as the database's strongest evidence of sustained autonomous humanoid labor", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Remote fleet monitoring and intervention", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Operators resolve exceptions remotely", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled site data", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Workplace deployment under safety protocols", "sensorKillSwitch": "Site controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "Industrial e-stop systems; v5 designed for cooperative safety", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable (industrial)", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 1, "physical": 8, "autonomy": 8, "privacy": null, "availability": 6, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Autonomy is the database's benchmark: verified, sustained, paid work. Home and privacy scores are not applicable to an industrial machine.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2019-01", "status": "prototype", "note": "First Digit shown; Ford research partnership" }, { "date": "2023-09", "status": "pilot", "note": "RoboFab factory announced; Amazon R&D pilot" }, { "date": "2024-06", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "GXO recurring RaaS deployment begins" }, { "date": "2025-01", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Schaeffler live production work" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "$2.5B SPAC announced; Digit v5 detailed with $300M+ orders" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Agility Robotics SPAC merger announcement", "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260624555633/en/", "publisher": "Business Wire", "date": "2026-06-24" }, { "title": "First humanoid robot maker goes public in US", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/06/24/first-humanoid-robot-maker-goes-public-in-us-25-billion-deal-new-robot-300-million-in-pre-orders/", "publisher": "Forbes", "date": "2026-06-24" }, { "title": "Agility announces new innovations for Digit", "url": "https://www.agilityrobotics.com/content/agility-robotics-announces-new-innovations-for-market-leading-humanoid-robot-digit", "publisher": "Agility Robotics", "date": "2025-03-31" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Agility Robotics" }, { "slug": "eilik", "name": "Eilik", "aliases": [ "Energize Lab Eilik" ], "company": "energize-lab", "country": "China", "category": "desktop-companions", "form": "desktop", "announced": "2021-10", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Desktop emotional companionship", "tagline": "The $139 desk buddy that made robot companionship an impulse buy.", "overview": [ "Eilik is Energize Lab's stationary desk companion: a chunky little figure with an expressive screen face that reacts dramatically to being picked up, shaken, tapped or ignored. It plays micro-games, sulks, celebrates and interacts with other Eiliks placed nearby. At $139.99 (pairs for $269.98), it is the cheapest genuinely engaging companion robot on the market, sold through Energize Lab, Amazon and Walmart.", "There is no camera, no microphone-based assistant and no cloud dependency for core behavior, which makes Eilik both the most private and the least capable companion in this database: a deliberate toy, executed with enough personality that millions of TikTok viewers adopted one." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 140, "display": "$139.99", "note": "$269.98 for a pair; retail availability at Amazon and Walmart" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide (online retail)" ], "orderChannel": "Energize Lab store, Amazon, Walmart", "expectedDelivery": "In stock", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Mass retail distribution since 2022", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 13, "weightKg": 0.25, "locomotion": "Stationary; arm and body gestures", "payload": "None", "runtime": "Hours per charge", "charging": "USB-C", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "Arms, torso twist", "hands": "Stub arms", "face": "Expressive screen face", "sensors": "Touch sensors, accelerometer (no camera, no microphone)" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Onboard behavior engine; no cloud AI", "voice": "Chirps and sounds; no speech recognition", "languages": "None", "visualRecognition": "None", "memory": "Mood states", "processing": "Fully local", "autonomy": "Autonomous emotional reactions", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "USB firmware updates", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Reactive play and desk companionship", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "None; no camera or microphone", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off", "dataDeletion": "Nothing collected", "accountRequired": "No", "emergencyStop": "Not applicable", "childPetSafety": "Safe desk toy", "securityUpdates": "Not connectivity-dependent" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 5, "physical": 1, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": 9, "availability": 10, "value": 8 }, "scoreNotes": "Maximum availability, near-maximum privacy, minimum ambition: the honest baseline of the companion market.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2021-10", "status": "preorder", "note": "Kickstarter campaign" }, { "date": "2022-04", "status": "available", "note": "Retail availability scales" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Eilik at Energize Lab store", "url": "https://store.energizelab.com/products/eilik", "publisher": "Energize Lab", "date": "2026-07" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Energize Lab" }, { "slug": "elliq", "name": "ElliQ", "aliases": [ "ElliQ 3" ], "company": "intuition-robotics", "country": "Israel / United States", "category": "care-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "desktop-companions" ], "form": "desktop", "announced": "2017-01", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Proactive companionship and wellness for older adults living alone", "tagline": "The elder-care companion with the strongest deployment evidence in the category, distributed through state aging agencies.", "overview": [ "ElliQ is a tabletop companion for older adults: an abstract, faceless lamp-like head that lights up, gestures and speaks, paired with a screen. Instead of waiting for commands it initiates: good-morning check-ins, medication reminders, exercise prompts, conversation, video calls to family. Intuition Robotics designed it explicitly to combat loneliness, and deliberately made it non-humanoid to avoid uncanny expectations.", "It is the rare companion robot with public-sector deployment at scale. New York State's Office for the Aging provides ElliQ free to eligible older adults, with 834 enrolled as of May 2025 and thousands of applicants; the agency published a multi-year project update in February 2026 and reports large self-reported loneliness reductions. The device costs $249 plus $39.99 per month (or $29.99 billed annually).", "In September 2025, Japanese trading house Kanematsu invested in Intuition Robotics (total equity about $85 million) to localize ElliQ for Japan, with launch planned for 2026, the product's first international expansion. Conversation has been upgraded with large language models while keeping the proactive-care framework." ], "realityCheck": [ "ElliQ does what its evidence says and no more: it talks, reminds, engages and connects. It has no arms, does not move around the home and cannot respond to falls beyond conversation and alerts. Its strength is that the claims and the deliveries match, which cannot be said for most of this database." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 249, "display": "$249 + $39.99/month", "note": "$29.99/month billed annually; free to eligible seniors via NY State program" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "United States", "Japan (planned 2026)" ], "orderChannel": "elliq.com and agency programs", "expectedDelivery": "In stock", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "834 NY State enrollees as of May 2025; direct-to-consumer sales since 2022", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 30, "weightKg": 2, "locomotion": "Stationary tabletop", "payload": "None", "runtime": "Mains powered", "charging": "Mains", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "Head gesture articulation", "hands": "None", "face": "Deliberately faceless light-and-motion head plus companion screen", "sensors": "Microphones, camera on screen unit for video calls, presence sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Intuition Robotics platform with LLM-enhanced conversation", "voice": "Proactive, context-aware conversation tuned for older adults", "languages": "English; Japanese localization in progress", "visualRecognition": "Presence detection; video calling", "memory": "Remembers routines, preferences, health goals", "processing": "Cloud-connected", "autonomy": "Fully autonomous proactive engagement", "teleoperation": "None; family app for connection", "updates": "Continuous cloud updates", "developerAccess": "Agency and healthcare integrations" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Reduces loneliness; medication and wellness reminders", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None in operation", "notes": "NY State program reports high engagement and self-reported loneliness reduction", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Proactive daily conversation", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Video calls and family check-ins", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Family participation", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Games, music, trivia", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Cloud processing; Intuition publishes senior-specific privacy commitments", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable; family app access is permissioned", "sensorKillSwitch": "Mute and camera controls", "dataDeletion": "Account deletion supported", "accountRequired": "Yes", "emergencyStop": "Not applicable (stationary)", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable", "securityUpdates": "Continuous; enterprise deployments under agency agreements" }, "scores": { "home": 5, "social": 8, "physical": 1, "autonomy": 7, "privacy": 8, "availability": 9, "value": 7 }, "scoreNotes": "Scores reward the rare alignment of claims, evidence and deliveries. Physical capability is intentionally minimal.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2017-01", "status": "prototype", "note": "Unveiled at CES" }, { "date": "2022-03", "status": "available", "note": "Direct-to-consumer US launch" }, { "date": "2023-05", "status": "available", "note": "NY State OFA distribution scales" }, { "date": "2025-09", "status": "available", "note": "Kanematsu investment; Japan launch planned 2026" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "ElliQ proactive care companion initiative", "url": "https://aging.ny.gov/elliq-proactive-care-companion-initiative", "publisher": "New York State Office for the Aging", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "NYSOFA ElliQ project update", "url": "https://aging.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/02/nysofa-elliq-project-update-2026.pdf", "publisher": "NYSOFA", "date": "2026-02" }, { "title": "Intuition Robotics partners with Kanematsu to bring ElliQ to Japan", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/intuition-robotics-partners-with-kanematsu-to-bring-elliq-to-japan/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2025-09" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Intuition Robotics" }, { "slug": "emo", "name": "EMO", "aliases": [ "Living AI EMO", "EMO Pet" ], "company": "living-ai", "country": "China", "category": "desktop-companions", "form": "desktop", "announced": "2021-09", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Desktop pet companionship", "tagline": "The desk robot with legs and attitude: a $279-379 companion that wanders your desk, plays and sulks.", "overview": [ "EMO is Living AI's walking desktop pet: a palm-sized robot on two legs with an expressive screen face and headphone-style ears. It patrols the desk edge without falling off, recognizes faces, dances to music, plays games and reacts with a large repertoire of moods. Over 1,000 animations and steady firmware updates have kept a devoted community since 2022.", "Current models and bundles run about $279 to $379. EMO's cloud-connected features and historically long shipping waits are the recurring owner complaints; its personality is the recurring reason people keep it on the desk anyway." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 279, "display": "$279-379 by model", "note": "Bundles with charging skateboard and accessories" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide (direct online)" ], "orderChannel": "living.ai", "expectedDelivery": "Weeks-scale (historically variable)", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Sold continuously since 2022 with a large owner community", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 12, "weightKg": 0.25, "locomotion": "Two-legged desktop walking with edge detection", "payload": "None", "runtime": "About 2 hours; skateboard dock charging", "charging": "Charging dock (skateboard)", "maxSpeed": "Desk pace", "degreesOfFreedom": "Legs, head, ear articulation", "hands": "None", "face": "Expressive screen face", "sensors": "Camera with face recognition, microphones, touch sensors, edge-detection sensors" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Living AI stack with cloud features; ChatGPT integration added for conversation", "voice": "Voice commands and chat responses", "languages": "English primarily", "visualRecognition": "Face recognition for owners", "memory": "Recognizes people; daily routines", "processing": "On-device plus cloud", "autonomy": "Autonomous desk life: wandering, dancing, sleeping", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "Frequent firmware and animation updates", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Games, dances, moods, desk antics", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Voice chat via LLM integration", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Cloud-connected features; policy published by Living AI", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off", "dataDeletion": "Account deletion", "accountRequired": "App account", "emergencyStop": "Not applicable", "childPetSafety": "Small desk toy", "securityUpdates": "Regular updates" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 6, "physical": 2, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": 5, "availability": 8, "value": 7 }, "scoreNotes": "A polished, shipping product whose only real rival at the price is Eilik.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2021-09", "status": "preorder", "note": "Crowdfunding launch" }, { "date": "2022-06", "status": "available", "note": "Volume shipping and community growth" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "EMO pricing and status guide", "url": "https://us.keyirobot.com/blogs/buying-guide/emo-robot-price-is-this-ai-pet-worth-the-high-price-tag", "publisher": "Keyi Robot", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Living AI" }, { "slug": "ex-robot-androids", "name": "EX Robot Androids", "aliases": [ "EX Robot", "Dalian Tiasi androids" ], "company": "ex-robot", "country": "China", "category": "realistic-androids", "secondaryCategories": [ "education-entertainment" ], "form": "android", "announced": "2016-06", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Museums, exhibitions and public-service venues", "tagline": "China's hyper-realistic android production line: hundreds of custom lookalikes staffing museums while the West debates one-offs.", "overview": [ "EX Robot (Dalian Tiasi Technology) mass-produces what Hanson Robotics prototypes: hyper-realistic androids with silicone skin and real-time facial mimicry, built to order in two to four weeks per unit at its Dalian facility. Founder Li Boyang, an AI PhD from Waseda, runs the company alongside a robot museum showcasing its own products.", "By early 2024 the company reported more than 200 androids in operation, mostly across Chinese museums, science centers and government venues, with 2024 reporting citing per-unit prices around $137,000 to $205,000 and viral videos of androids mirroring human facial expressions in real time. The company positions psychotherapy and public service as future markets and forecasts home androids in the 2030s.", "This profile covers the product line rather than a single model; configurations are custom, from historical-figure recreations to customer lookalikes." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "About $137,000-205,000 (2024 reporting)", "note": "Custom builds; current pricing unpublished" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China; export by arrangement" ], "orderChannel": "Direct custom orders (B2B)", "expectedDelivery": "About 2-4 weeks build per unit (reported)", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "200+ units reported in operation by early 2024 across Chinese venues", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 170, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Stationary or seated installations; some wheeled bases", "payload": "Gesture only", "runtime": "Mains-powered installations", "charging": "Mains", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "Facial micro-motor arrays for expression mimicry; upper-body gesture", "hands": "Gesture hands", "face": "Hyper-realistic silicone with real-time expression mirroring", "sensors": "Cameras for face tracking and mimicry, microphones" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "EX Robot in-house stack with LLM conversation integrations", "voice": "Conversational Chinese; other languages by configuration", "languages": "Chinese primarily", "visualRecognition": "Face tracking and expression mirroring", "memory": "Installation configurable", "processing": "Local plus cloud", "autonomy": "Autonomous exhibit interaction; scripted programs common", "teleoperation": "Supported for events", "updates": "Program-based", "developerAccess": "None public" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Museum and exhibition androids, including lookalike builds", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Scripted programs and operator modes", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Visitor conversation with facial mimicry", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Venue configuration", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "Science-center and historical-figure exhibits", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Curated installations", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Venue-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Venue discretion", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Venue responsibility", "accountRequired": "Not applicable (B2B)", "emergencyStop": "Installation controlled", "childPetSafety": "Supervised public settings", "securityUpdates": "Program-based" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 6, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": null, "availability": 5, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "The volume leader in realistic androids; availability is real but strictly institutional.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2016-06", "status": "prototype", "note": "Company founded; early android development" }, { "date": "2022-08", "status": "available", "note": "Museum deployments scale" }, { "date": "2024-03", "status": "available", "note": "200+ units in operation reported; mass-production push" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "EX Robot company profile and strategy", "url": "https://mikekalil.com/blog/ex-robot/", "publisher": "Mike Kalil", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "Chinese humanoid robots reach new realism", "url": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/chinese-humanoid-robots-realistic/", "publisher": "New Atlas", "date": "2024" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Unit counts and pricing come from 2024 reporting; current figures unpublished" ], "companyName": "EX Robot (Dalian Tiasi)" }, { "slug": "figure-03", "name": "Figure 03", "aliases": [ "Figure AI F.03" ], "company": "figure-ai", "country": "United States", "category": "home-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "industrial-humanoids" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2025-10", "status": "pilot", "intendedUse": "General-purpose household and commercial work; home alpha testing", "tagline": "Figure's third-generation humanoid, purpose-built around the Helix AI model and already rolling off a production line, but not for sale.", "overview": [ "Figure 03, revealed on October 9, 2025, is the first Figure robot designed for the home: softgoods surfaces, washable outer layers, inductive charging feet, palm cameras, and a body about nine percent lighter than Figure 02. It exists to run Helix, the company's vision-language-action model that maps camera input and speech directly to full-body action.", "Unlike its home-humanoid rivals, Figure is not taking orders. The robot is produced at BotQ, Figure's dedicated factory, which reached a rate of one robot per hour in April 2026; the company says over 350 units have been delivered to its headquarters, commercial customer sites and a limited number of residential homes for alpha testing. CEO Brett Adcock has floated an eventual price under $20,000 at scale, but no price or consumer date is official.", "Figure's 2026 demonstrations set the public bar for humanoid autonomy: a four-minute unedited dishwasher unload and reload, two robots tidying a bedroom on a single Helix policy, and reported eight-hour autonomous logistics shifts. All are company-published; no independent audit of these demonstrations exists." ], "realityCheck": [ "Figure 03 is the strongest publicly documented case for home-humanoid autonomy, and also a reminder of how much rests on company-controlled evidence. The dishwasher and bedroom-tidying videos are presented as end-to-end neural network runs with no resets and no human intervention. Helix is trained on hundreds of hours of teleoperated demonstrations, but there is no evidence Figure's 2026 public demos were live-teleoperated, and equally no third party has been allowed to verify them.", "You cannot buy one, and Figure has not said when you will. The homes that have Figure 03 units are alpha-test placements of undisclosed number and terms. Until an ordinary customer can order a robot and journalists can test one unsupervised, Figure 03's household usefulness remains a well-documented company claim." ], "privacyNote": [ "Figure has published far less about consumer privacy than 1X, largely because it has no consumers yet. Figure 03 carries always-on cameras (including in each palm) and microphones, processes Helix onboard, and uploads fleet data to improve the model. How recordings from alpha homes are stored, reviewed and deleted has not been publicly documented." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not for sale", "note": "CEO has stated a long-term target under $20,000 at scale; a circulating $24,760 figure is unsourced" }, "availability": { "status": "pilot", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "United States (alpha program only)" ], "orderChannel": "None; no waitlist or preorder exists", "expectedDelivery": "No announced consumer availability date", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "350+ units delivered from BotQ to Figure HQ, customer sites and residential alpha homes, per company (April 2026)", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 168, "weightKg": 60, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "About 20 kg (claimed)", "runtime": "About 5 hours active use (claimed)", "charging": "Inductive charging through the feet on a floor dock (about 2 kW)", "maxSpeed": "About 1.2 m/s walking (claimed)", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not fully disclosed", "hands": "Five-finger hands with tactile fingertips and a camera in each palm", "face": "No face; sensor head, softgoods covering, audio for voice interaction", "sensors": "Upgraded RGB camera suite with wider field of view, palm cameras, microphones and speakers" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Helix (Figure's in-house vision-language-action model); Helix 02 since January 2026 adds full-body autonomy", "voice": "Yes, natural-language commands and conversation", "languages": "English demonstrated", "visualRecognition": "Objects, scenes and task context via Helix vision", "memory": "Task and environment context; personal long-term memory not documented", "processing": "Onboard GPUs run Helix locally; fleet learning via cloud", "autonomy": "Company-published demos show long-horizon autonomous chores (dishwasher, tidying, logistics shifts)", "teleoperation": "Used for training data collection; company states public demos run autonomously", "updates": "Continuous model updates fleet-wide", "developerAccess": "None; closed platform" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Unloads and reloads a dishwasher; tidies rooms", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Company states none ('no resets, no intervention'); not independently verified", "notes": "Four-minute unedited dishwasher video (January 2026); two-robot bedroom tidy in under two minutes (May 2026)", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "laundry", "claim": "Folds towels and handles laundry", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Company states none; demonstrated on earlier hardware and Helix policies", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Voice conversation and spoken task instructions", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None claimed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Teleoperation used internally for training data", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "teleoperated", "humanIntervention": "Human operators generate demonstration data; not an owner-facing feature", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Onboard Helix processing; fleet data uploaded for training. Consumer-facing storage policy not published", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not documented for alpha homes", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not documented", "dataDeletion": "Not documented", "accountRequired": "Not applicable; no consumer product", "emergencyStop": "Not documented for home units", "childPetSafety": "Softgoods exterior and compliant control marketed as home-safe; no published certification", "securityUpdates": "Continuous updates during pilot; no consumer commitment stated" }, "scores": { "home": 4, "social": 5, "physical": 8, "autonomy": 7, "privacy": 3, "availability": 2, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Autonomy is the highest we assign on company-only evidence, reflecting unedited long-horizon footage. Availability is near the floor: there is no way to buy, reserve or even join a list. Value is unscored with no price.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-10", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Figure 03 revealed with home-first design" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "prototype", "note": "Helix 02 announced; four-minute autonomous dishwasher task published" }, { "date": "2026-02", "status": "pilot", "note": "BotQ production ramp; deployments to customer sites and alpha homes" }, { "date": "2026-04", "status": "pilot", "note": "Company reports 350+ units delivered and one-robot-per-hour production rate" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Ramping Figure 03 production", "url": "https://www.figure.ai/news/ramping-figure-03-production", "publisher": "Figure AI", "date": "2026-04-29" }, { "title": "Helix 02 announcement", "url": "https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-02", "publisher": "Figure AI", "date": "2026-01-27" }, { "title": "Figure 03 reveal coverage", "url": "https://time.com/7324233/figure-03-robot-humanoid-reveal/", "publisher": "TIME", "date": "2025-10-09" }, { "title": "Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/figure-reaches-39b-valuation-in-latest-funding-round/", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2025-09-16" }, { "title": "Helix 02 full-body autonomy coverage", "url": "https://www.eweek.com/news/figure-helix-02-humanoid-robot-autonomy/", "publisher": "eWeek", "date": "2026-02" }, { "title": "Figure robots complete 8-hour autonomous shifts", "url": "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/316632/20260514/figure-ais-helix-02-robots-complete-full-8-hour-autonomous-shifts-humanoid-race-intensifies.htm", "publisher": "TechTimes", "date": "2026-05-14" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "The '$24,760 price' circulating on aggregator sites does not come from Figure", "No independent party has verified that Figure's 2026 demos involved zero live human assistance", "The number of alpha homes, and whether occupants are employees, is undisclosed" ], "companyName": "Figure AI" }, { "slug": "unitree-g1", "name": "G1", "aliases": [ "Unitree G1", "G1 EDU" ], "company": "unitree", "country": "China", "category": "developer-platforms", "secondaryCategories": [ "education-entertainment" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-05", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Research, development, education and performance", "tagline": "The robot that broke the humanoid price floor: a genuinely capable biped you can order today, now at $13,500.", "overview": [ "The G1 changed the humanoid market's arithmetic. Launched in May 2024 at $16,000, the 1.3 meter biped brought backflips, kip-ups and running to a price previously associated with a single robot joint; by July 2026 Unitree's official shop lists the base configuration at $13,500. It is the most widely distributed humanoid in the world, standard equipment in research labs and the star of countless viral videos.", "The base G1 is a developer platform, not a butler: it ships with locomotion capabilities and an SDK, while dexterous three-finger hands, higher-DoF configurations and the EDU tiers (from around $44,000) serve serious research. Unitree, which filed for a Shanghai STAR Market IPO approved in July 2026, targets shipping 20,000 humanoids across its line in 2026.", "G1s have danced at China's Spring Festival Gala, fought in kickboxing exhibitions and taught in classrooms worldwide. Whatever the humanoid future looks like, more people have touched it through a G1 than any other robot." ], "realityCheck": [ "A stock G1 walks, balances, recovers and performs impressively; it does not cook, clean or converse out of the box. Its household usefulness is whatever its owner programs. Buyers routinely underestimate the integration work: the G1's value is as hardware for developers, educators and performers, where it is unmatched per dollar." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 13500, "display": "$13,500 (base)", "note": "Launched at $16,000; EDU configurations from about $44,000 to $74,000" }, "priceHistory": [ { "date": "2024-05", "display": "$16,000", "amountUSD": 16000, "note": "Launch price" }, { "date": "2026-07", "display": "$13,500", "amountUSD": 13500, "note": "Official shop base price, cut date not announced" } ], "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide via official shop and distributors" ], "orderChannel": "shop.unitree.com and distributors", "expectedDelivery": "2-8 weeks typical", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Routine retail shipping since 2024; ubiquitous in research labs worldwide", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 132, "weightKg": 35, "locomotion": "Bipedal; walking, running, jumps, flips", "payload": "About 3 kg per arm (base)", "runtime": "About 2 hours", "charging": "Swappable battery pack, charger included", "maxSpeed": "2 m/s", "degreesOfFreedom": "23 to 43 depending on configuration", "hands": "Optional Dex3-1 three-finger dexterous hands", "face": "Sensor visor with light ring; no expressive face", "sensors": "3D lidar, depth camera, microphone array, IMU" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Unitree SDK; ROS support; NVIDIA Isaac ecosystem; UnifoLM models optional", "voice": "Basic voice features; developers add LLMs", "languages": "Developer configured", "visualRecognition": "Developer configured via onboard sensors", "memory": "Developer configured", "processing": "Onboard compute (upgradable tiers); optional Jetson modules", "autonomy": "World-class locomotion autonomy; task autonomy is up to the developer", "teleoperation": "Full remote control supported by design", "updates": "Firmware updates", "developerAccess": "Excellent: open SDK, simulation support, huge community" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "education", "claim": "Research and teaching platform", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Developer programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Dances, flips, boxing exhibitions", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Routines choreographed; some events use operator control", "notes": "Spring Festival Gala performances; kickboxing events", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Conversational AI via developer integrations", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Requires developer setup", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Owner controlled; local processing by default", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner is the operator", "sensorKillSwitch": "Owner controlled", "dataDeletion": "Owner controlled", "accountRequired": "App account for setup", "emergencyStop": "Remote e-stop and app controls", "childPetSafety": "A fast 35 kg machine; Unitree provides safety guidance, supervision required", "securityUpdates": "Firmware updates; researchers have documented cloud-connectivity concerns on Unitree products" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 3, "physical": 8, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": 5, "availability": 9, "value": 9 }, "scoreNotes": "Value and availability set the database benchmark for buyable humanoids; home usefulness is honestly near zero out of the box.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-05", "status": "preorder", "note": "Unveiled at $16,000" }, { "date": "2024-08", "status": "available", "note": "Volume shipping begins" }, { "date": "2026-02", "status": "available", "note": "Unitree targets 20,000 humanoid shipments in 2026" }, { "date": "2026-07", "status": "available", "note": "Official shop base price at $13,500" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Unitree official humanoid shop", "url": "https://shop.unitree.com/collections/humanoid-robot", "publisher": "Unitree", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "Unitree G1 configurations and pricing", "url": "https://botinfo.ai/articles/unitree-g1", "publisher": "BotInfo", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "Unitree targets 20,000 humanoid shipments in 2026", "url": "https://www.eweek.com/news/unitree-20000-humanoid-robots-2026-china/", "publisher": "eWeek", "date": "2026-02" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Unitree Robotics" }, { "slug": "galbot-g1", "name": "Galbot G1", "aliases": [], "company": "galbot", "country": "China", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "domestic-helpers" ], "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2024-06", "status": "pilot", "intendedUse": "Retail service: stocking, picking and delivery in stores", "tagline": "The wheeled Chinese semi-humanoid quietly staffing convenience stores while the bipeds do backflips.", "overview": [ "Galbot's G1 is a wheeled, dual-arm semi-humanoid from the Beijing startup founded in 2023 out of Peking University robotics research. At about 173 centimeters and 85 kilograms with 47 degrees of freedom and a claimed 10-hour battery, it is built for a specific, unglamorous job: fetching, stocking and handing over items in retail spaces.", "Galbot has publicized unmanned and robot-assisted store deployments in China, where G1 units pick products and fulfill orders, and claims grasp success rates around 95 to 97 percent across more than 5,000 object types, figures that remain company-reported. The company made its US debut at CES 2026 amid a record 38 humanoid exhibitors.", "No public pricing exists; deployments run through partnerships. The G1's case for this database is as the leading example of humanoids entering retail service rather than factories or living rooms." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Partnership and enterprise deployments" }, "availability": { "status": "pilot", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise partnerships", "expectedDelivery": "Deployment-based", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Company-publicized retail store deployments in China; independent counts unavailable", "evidence": "real-world-demo" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 173, "weightKg": 85, "locomotion": "Wheeled base", "payload": "Retail item handling; per-arm figures unpublished", "runtime": "About 10 hours (claimed)", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Indoor service speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "47", "hands": "Two-finger and suction end effectors", "face": "Sensor head; no expressive face", "sensors": "RGB-D cameras, lidar" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Galbot foundation models for grasping (GraspVLA lineage)", "voice": "Service interactions via kiosk and app", "languages": "Chinese", "visualRecognition": "Product recognition across 5,000+ SKUs (claimed)", "memory": "Store inventory models", "processing": "Onboard plus cloud", "autonomy": "Autonomous picking and stocking in deployed stores (company evidence)", "teleoperation": "Supported for exceptions", "updates": "Fleet updates", "developerAccess": "Enterprise" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Stocks shelves, picks and delivers products in stores", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Remote exception handling; extent undisclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed in stores", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "E-stop", "childPetSafety": "Operates around the public at low speeds", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 2, "physical": 5, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": null, "availability": 3, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Autonomy credits sustained store operations, discounted for company-only reporting.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-06", "status": "public-demo", "note": "G1 revealed" }, { "date": "2025-06", "status": "pilot", "note": "Retail deployments publicized in China" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "pilot", "note": "US debut at CES 2026" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "CES 2026 humanoid roundup including Galbot's US debut", "url": "https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-robots-we-saw-at-ces-2026-the-lovable-the-creepy-and-the-utterly-confusing-153537930.html", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2026-01-10" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Grasp success rates and store deployment counts are company-reported without independent verification" ], "companyName": "Galbot" }, { "slug": "fourier-gr-3", "name": "GR-3", "aliases": [ "Fourier GR-3", "Care-bot" ], "company": "fourier", "country": "China", "category": "care-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "social-robots", "home-humanoids" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2025-08", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Interactive companionship in homes, hospitals and assisted living", "tagline": "Fourier's soft-shelled 'Care-bot': the first full-size humanoid marketed primarily as a companion rather than a worker.", "overview": [ "The GR-3 is Shanghai-based Fourier's third-generation humanoid and a deliberate break from the industry's warehouse obsession: 165 centimeters, 71 kilograms, wrapped in warm-toned soft materials, with expressive eyes and multimodal interaction aimed at companionship, rehabilitation support and assisted living. Fourier, which built its reputation in rehabilitation robotics, calls it a Care-bot.", "China pre-sales opened in September 2025 with deliveries starting from October 2025, making GR-3 one of the few companion-positioned humanoids actually reaching customers, mostly institutional buyers. Pricing is murky: figures between roughly $27,500 and $80,000 circulate from third-party trackers, and Fourier publishes no official number. The robot made its US debut at CES 2026.", "GR-3 pairs 55 degrees of freedom with a full-body touch-sensing skin concept and Fourier's rehabilitation heritage, a plausible foundation for care roles that remain, for now, demonstrations rather than validated clinical use." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "No official price (est. $27,500-80,000)", "note": "Conflicting third-party figures; early-bird China pre-sale discounts reported" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China; international by inquiry" ], "orderChannel": "Fourier and resellers (B2B)", "expectedDelivery": "Backordered at international resellers", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Deliveries stated from October 2025; counts unpublished", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 165, "weightKg": 71, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "Care-interaction loads; figures unpublished", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Walking pace", "degreesOfFreedom": "55", "hands": "Dexterous hands for interaction tasks", "face": "Expressive digital eyes and soft head design", "sensors": "Vision, microphone array, full-body touch sensing (claimed)" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Fourier interaction stack with LLM conversation", "voice": "Multimodal conversation in Chinese; English shown at CES", "languages": "Chinese, English", "visualRecognition": "Person recognition and tracking (claimed)", "memory": "Personalization claimed", "processing": "Hybrid onboard and cloud", "autonomy": "Interaction and navigation in controlled settings", "teleoperation": "Supported for development; disclosure practices unpublished", "updates": "OTA", "developerAccess": "SDK for institutional partners" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Companionship and engagement in assisted living", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Multimodal conversation with emotional expression", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None claimed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Interactive engagement and demonstrations", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None claimed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not publicly documented", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not documented", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not documented", "dataDeletion": "Not documented", "accountRequired": "Institutional accounts", "emergencyStop": "E-stop expected from rehab heritage; consumer documentation absent", "childPetSafety": "Soft-shell design marketed; no certification published", "securityUpdates": "Not documented" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 6, "physical": 5, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": null, "availability": 5, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "The most credible companion-first humanoid from China, held back by opaque pricing and unpublished delivery numbers.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-08", "status": "public-demo", "note": "GR-3 unveiled as Care-bot" }, { "date": "2025-09", "status": "preorder", "note": "China pre-sale opens" }, { "date": "2025-10", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Stated delivery start" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "US debut at CES 2026" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Fourier GR-3 pre-sale launch", "url": "https://www.rzautoassembly.com/fourier-humanoid-robot-gr-3-launches-pre-sale-165cm-in-height-focusing-on-interactive-companionship/", "publisher": "Gasgoo syndication", "date": "2025-09-09" }, { "title": "CES 2026: Fourier unveils GR-3 in the US", "url": "https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/news/ces-2026-fourier-intelligence-unveils-full-size-humanoid-robot-gr-3-2008896810972438528", "publisher": "Gasgoo", "date": "2026-01" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Price: figures from about $27,500 to $80,000 circulate with no official confirmation" ], "companyName": "Fourier" }, { "slug": "hanson-grace", "name": "Grace", "aliases": [ "Hanson Robotics Grace" ], "company": "hanson-robotics", "country": "Hong Kong", "category": "care-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "realistic-androids" ], "form": "android", "announced": "2021-06", "status": "public-demo", "intendedUse": "Healthcare engagement and elder-care assistance", "tagline": "Sophia's nurse-styled sister, built for healthcare in the pandemic and still looking for her ward.", "overview": [ "Grace is Hanson Robotics' healthcare android, unveiled in mid-2021 through Awakening Health, a joint venture with SingularityNET. Dressed as a nurse with the same Frubber expressive skin as Sophia, she was designed for elder care and patient engagement: talking with isolated patients, running through wellness checklists and reading temperatures with a chest thermal camera.", "The pandemic-era pitch outpaced deployment. Grace has appeared at care facilities, conferences and trials across Asia, but no sustained commercial care deployment has been documented, and Hanson's chronic funding constraints (chronicled in the 2025 documentary about Sophia) apply to her program too.", "Grace remains the most serious attempt to point hyper-realistic androids at care work, and a live test of whether human likeness helps or unsettles in a hospital room." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not sold at retail", "note": "Partnership and pilot placements" }, "availability": { "status": "public-demo", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "Asia (demonstrations and trials)" ], "orderChannel": "Partnership inquiries", "expectedDelivery": "Not applicable", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Care-facility demonstrations and trials; no sustained commercial deployment documented", "evidence": "real-world-demo" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 168, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Stationary or wheeled base", "payload": "None; interaction only", "runtime": "Session-based", "charging": "Mains", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "Facial articulation focus (Frubber face); arm gestures", "hands": "Gesture hands", "face": "Frubber expressive face with 48 major muscles simulated (company figures)", "sensors": "Eye cameras, chest thermal camera, microphones" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Hanson AI with SingularityNET services; LLM integrations in later demos", "voice": "Multilingual care conversation (English, Mandarin, Cantonese demonstrated)", "languages": "English, Mandarin, Cantonese", "visualRecognition": "Face tracking; temperature reading", "memory": "Patient-interaction personalization (claimed)", "processing": "Local plus cloud", "autonomy": "Conversational autonomy; care workflows facilitated", "teleoperation": "Operator curation common, as across the Hanson line", "updates": "Program-based", "developerAccess": "Research partnerships" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Patient engagement, wellness checks, temperature reading", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Facilitated sessions; operator involvement varies", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Multilingual care conversation", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Operator curation common", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Program-controlled; health-data handling not publicly documented", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not standardized", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Not documented", "accountRequired": "Not applicable", "emergencyStop": "Operator controlled", "childPetSafety": "Supervised settings only", "securityUpdates": "Program-based" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 6, "physical": 2, "autonomy": 3, "privacy": null, "availability": 1, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Expressive care conversation is real; a deployable care product has not materialized.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2021-06", "status": "prototype", "note": "Grace unveiled via Awakening Health" }, { "date": "2023-07", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Global appearances including UN AI for Good" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Hanson Robotics", "url": "https://www.hansonrobotics.com/", "publisher": "Hanson Robotics", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "My Robot Sophia documentary coverage (program context)", "url": "https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/05/29/my-robot-sophia", "publisher": "WBUR", "date": "2025-05-29" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Hanson Robotics" }, { "slug": "unitree-h1", "name": "H1", "aliases": [ "Unitree H1" ], "company": "unitree", "country": "China", "category": "developer-platforms", "form": "biped", "announced": "2023-08", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Full-size research humanoid", "tagline": "Unitree's original full-size humanoid, holder of the humanoid speed record and workhorse of a hundred labs.", "overview": [ "The H1 was Unitree's statement that it could build full-size humanoids, not just robot dogs. The 1.8 meter, 47 kilogram biped set a world speed record for humanoids at 3.3 meters per second and became famous doing synchronized dances at China's 2025 Spring Festival Gala. It remains listed at $90,000 (inquiry pricing in practice) as the legacy full-size research platform.", "H1 units have shipped to research customers since 2024 and appear throughout academic literature. The line has since been succeeded by the H2 generation, but the H1's combination of size, speed and relative affordability keeps it in service worldwide." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 90000, "display": "$90,000 (inquiry)", "note": "Official listing with contact-for-price note; configuration dependent" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide via official shop and distributors" ], "orderChannel": "shop.unitree.com and distributors", "expectedDelivery": "Built to order", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Research deliveries since 2024; broad academic install base", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 180, "weightKg": 47, "locomotion": "Bipedal; record-setting speed", "payload": "About 30 kg lift class (claimed)", "runtime": "About 2 hours", "charging": "Swappable battery", "maxSpeed": "3.3 m/s (world record); >5 m/s potential (claimed)", "degreesOfFreedom": "19 (base body); hands optional", "hands": "Optional Dex3 hands", "face": "Sensor visor", "sensors": "3D lidar, depth camera, IMU" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Unitree SDK; ROS; common RL research target", "voice": "Developer configured", "languages": "Developer configured", "visualRecognition": "Developer configured", "memory": "Developer configured", "processing": "Onboard compute", "autonomy": "Locomotion autonomy; tasks developer-built", "teleoperation": "Fully supported", "updates": "Firmware", "developerAccess": "Open SDK" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "education", "claim": "Full-size research platform", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Developer programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Gala dance performances, speed showcases", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Choreographed routines", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Owner controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner is the operator", "sensorKillSwitch": "Owner controlled", "dataDeletion": "Owner controlled", "accountRequired": "App account for setup", "emergencyStop": "Remote e-stop", "childPetSafety": "A powerful full-size machine; professional supervision required", "securityUpdates": "Firmware updates" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 1, "physical": 8, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": 5, "availability": 7, "value": 5 }, "scoreNotes": "Superseded by H2 but still a capable full-size platform with real availability.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2023-08", "status": "prototype", "note": "H1 unveiled" }, { "date": "2024-03", "status": "available", "note": "Research shipments; humanoid speed record" }, { "date": "2025-02", "status": "available", "note": "Spring Festival Gala dance performance" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Unitree official humanoid shop", "url": "https://shop.unitree.com/collections/humanoid-robot", "publisher": "Unitree", "date": "2026-07" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Unitree Robotics" }, { "slug": "unitree-h2", "name": "H2", "aliases": [ "Unitree H2", "H2 Plus" ], "company": "unitree", "country": "China", "category": "developer-platforms", "secondaryCategories": [ "industrial-humanoids" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2025-10", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Full-size research and development; NVIDIA's reference humanoid", "tagline": "Unitree's $29,900 full-size flagship, now shipping, and the body NVIDIA chose for its open humanoid reference design.", "overview": [ "The H2 is Unitree's second-generation full-size humanoid, revealed in October 2025: 1.8 meters, about 70 kilograms, with smoother, more humanlike proportions than the H1 and a base price of $29,900, a third of its predecessor's. The base unit ships with non-functional dummy hands; dexterous hands and higher tiers (commercial about $41,000, EDU about $69,000 via distributors) cost more.", "Phased deliveries to North America began around April 2026. At Computex in June 2026, NVIDIA announced the H2-based 'H2 Plus' as the first Isaac GR00T reference humanoid, with Jetson Thor onboard and availability promised for October 2026 to anyone, with Stanford, ETH Zurich, UC San Diego and Ai2 as academic launch partners; Unitree's shop lists it at $100,000.", "The H2 generation anchors Unitree's move upmarket as the company heads for its Shanghai IPO, approved by regulators in July 2026 with a raise around $618 million." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 29900, "display": "$29,900 (base, dummy hands)", "note": "Commercial about $40,900 and EDU about $68,900 via distributors; H2 Plus listed at $100,000" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide via official shop and distributors" ], "orderChannel": "shop.unitree.com and distributors", "expectedDelivery": "Phased shipping since Q2 2026; H2 Plus from October 2026", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Distributor-reported deliveries from April 2026; no published counts", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 180, "weightKg": 70, "locomotion": "Bipedal with notably humanlike gait", "payload": "Not fully published", "runtime": "About 2 hours class", "charging": "Swappable battery", "maxSpeed": "Fast walking and dynamic moves", "degreesOfFreedom": "31 (company figure)", "hands": "Dummy hands standard; dexterous hands optional", "face": "Sensor visor", "sensors": "3D lidar, depth cameras, microphone array" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Unitree SDK; NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference stack on H2 Plus (Jetson Thor)", "voice": "Developer configured", "languages": "Developer configured", "visualRecognition": "Developer configured", "memory": "Developer configured", "processing": "Onboard; H2 Plus adds Jetson Thor Blackwell compute", "autonomy": "Locomotion autonomy out of the box; GR00T models target general skills", "teleoperation": "Fully supported", "updates": "Firmware and Isaac ecosystem", "developerAccess": "Open SDK; GR00T reference design" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "education", "claim": "Flagship research platform; NVIDIA reference humanoid", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Developer programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Dynamic demonstrations; reported Spring Festival Gala 2026 appearance", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Choreographed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Owner controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner is the operator", "sensorKillSwitch": "Owner controlled", "dataDeletion": "Owner controlled", "accountRequired": "App account for setup", "emergencyStop": "Remote e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Full-size powerful machine; professional use", "securityUpdates": "Firmware updates" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 2, "physical": 8, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": 5, "availability": 7, "value": 7 }, "scoreNotes": "Full-size hardware at a $29,900 base rewrites the value curve above the G1.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-10", "status": "preorder", "note": "H2 revealed; preorders open" }, { "date": "2026-04", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Phased North American deliveries reported" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "NVIDIA announces H2 Plus as Isaac GR00T reference humanoid (October availability)" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "NVIDIA and Unitree humanoid robotics system for researchers", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-unitree-humanoid-robotics-system-researchers.html", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-06-01" }, { "title": "NVIDIA open humanoid robot reference design", "url": "https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-open-humanoid-robot-reference-design", "publisher": "NVIDIA", "date": "2026-06" }, { "title": "Unitree wins approval for $618 million STAR Market IPO", "url": "https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-07-03/unitree-robotics-wins-approval-for-618-million-star-market-ipo-102460136.html", "publisher": "Caixin Global", "date": "2026-07-03" }, { "title": "Unitree official humanoid shop", "url": "https://shop.unitree.com/collections/humanoid-robot", "publisher": "Unitree", "date": "2026-07" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "H2 Plus final pricing: the shop lists $100,000 while launch press said pricing was not announced", "The February 2026 Spring Festival Gala H2 performance is reported by a single aggregator" ], "companyName": "Unitree Robotics" }, { "slug": "xpeng-iron", "name": "IRON", "aliases": [ "XPeng IRON" ], "company": "xpeng-robotics", "country": "China", "category": "home-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "industrial-humanoids" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-11", "status": "prototype", "intendedUse": "Commercial service roles in XPeng facilities first; consumer sales planned later", "tagline": "The Chinese EV maker's strikingly humanlike biped, famous for a gait so smooth the company cut one open on stage to prove no human was inside.", "overview": [ "IRON is XPeng's flagship humanoid, first shown in November 2024 and re-revealed in far more humanlike form at the company's AI Day on November 5, 2025. The new IRON walks with a catwalk-smooth, hip-swaying gait that immediately spawned accusations of a person in a suit; XPeng responded on stage by cutting open the robot's leg covering to show the machinery. Hong Kong shares rose about nine percent in the aftermath.", "XPeng positions IRON as a core business alongside its EVs. CEO He Xiaopeng took direct control of the robotics unit in February 2026, mandating mass production by the end of 2026, and the company broke ground on a 110,000 square meter dedicated humanoid factory in the first quarter of 2026. Claimed specifications are aggressive: 82 degrees of freedom, 22-DoF hands, three of XPeng's Turing AI chips delivering roughly 3,000 TOPS, and a solid-state battery.", "Initial deployments are planned for XPeng's own showrooms and factories and industrial partner Baosteel. There is no sales channel, no price and no delivery evidence yet." ], "realityCheck": [ "Everything public about IRON comes from XPeng events and controlled press showings. The walking is genuinely state of the art; nothing about manipulation, chores or sustained autonomous work has been demonstrated at comparable depth. The end-of-2026 mass production deadline is a CEO mandate, not a shipping product, and mid-2026 trade coverage still describes IRON as in the final stretch before production." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Third-party estimates around $150,000 for early enterprise units are unofficial" }, "availability": { "status": "prototype", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China (planned first)" ], "orderChannel": "None yet", "expectedDelivery": "Mass production mandated for end of 2026; deployments in XPeng facilities and Baosteel first", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None; factory under construction as of early 2026", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 178, "weightKg": 70, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking with notably humanlike gait", "payload": "Not disclosed", "runtime": "Not disclosed; solid-state battery (claimed)", "charging": "Not disclosed", "maxSpeed": "Not disclosed", "degreesOfFreedom": "82 total (claimed)", "hands": "22-DoF dexterous hands (claimed)", "face": "Humanlike head with customizable appearance; female and male body forms shown", "sensors": "Camera and sensor suite derived from XPeng's driving stack; details not fully published" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "XPeng Turing AI chips (about 3,000 TOPS across three chips) with in-house VLA models", "voice": "Conversational interaction demonstrated at events", "languages": "Chinese and English demonstrated", "visualRecognition": "Claimed; details not published", "memory": "Not disclosed", "processing": "Onboard compute emphasized", "autonomy": "Walking and stage interaction demonstrated; task autonomy not yet shown in depth", "teleoperation": "Not disclosed", "updates": "Not disclosed", "developerAccess": "Not announced" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Conversational interaction", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Catwalk-quality humanlike walking", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None; on-stage teardown performed to dispel suspicion of a human inside", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not disclosed", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not disclosed", "dataDeletion": "Not disclosed", "accountRequired": "Not applicable yet", "emergencyStop": "Not disclosed", "childPetSafety": "Not disclosed", "securityUpdates": "Not disclosed" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 4, "physical": 7, "autonomy": 3, "privacy": null, "availability": 1, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Physical capability reflects best-in-class demonstrated locomotion. Everything else awaits evidence beyond staged events.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-11", "status": "prototype", "note": "First IRON shown at XPeng AI Day" }, { "date": "2025-11", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Next-generation IRON's humanlike gait goes viral; on-stage cut-open rebuttal" }, { "date": "2026-02", "status": "prototype", "note": "CEO He Xiaopeng takes direct control of robotics; end-2026 mass production mandate" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "XPeng next-generation IRON announcement", "url": "https://www.xpeng.com/news/019a56f54fe99a2a0a8d8a0282e402b7", "publisher": "XPeng", "date": "2025-11" }, { "title": "Robot stuns crowd after shocking onstage reveal", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/tech/robot-stuns-crowd-after-shocking-onstage-reveal", "publisher": "Fox News", "date": "2025-11" }, { "title": "XPeng CEO takes helm of robotics unit targeting 2026 mass production", "url": "https://www.edgen.tech/news/post/xpeng-ceo-takes-helm-of-robotics-unit-targeting-2026-mass-production", "publisher": "Edgen", "date": "2026-02" }, { "title": "XPeng CEO targets late 2026 for massive IRON deployment", "url": "https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/xpeng-ceo-targets-late-2026-for-massive-iron-deployment", "publisher": "Humanoids Daily", "date": "2025-11" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "The $150,000 price estimate is third-party speculation", "Whether end-of-2026 mass production is on track has not been confirmed as of July 2026" ], "companyName": "XPeng Robotics" }, { "slug": "tombot-jennie", "name": "Jennie", "aliases": [ "Tombot Jennie" ], "company": "tombot", "country": "United States", "category": "care-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "robot-pets" ], "form": "pet", "announced": "2019-03", "status": "preorder", "intendedUse": "Emotional support for people with dementia, anxiety and loneliness", "tagline": "A hyper-realistic robotic Labrador puppy for dementia care, with 23,000 preorders and first deliveries promised for fall 2026.", "overview": [ "Jennie is a robotic Labrador retriever puppy designed by Tombot founder Tom Stevens after his mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis forced her to give up her dog, with animatronics by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. She responds to touch and voice commands with lifelike movement and puppy sounds, and is aimed at older adults with dementia, for whom live animals are often impractical.", "The product has been one of the longest-running preorders in robotics: announced in 2019, repeatedly delayed through engineering and funding rounds, with the waitlist growing to more than 23,000 by mid-2026. At CES 2026 Tombot showed final production cosmetics at a price around $1,500, and a $7 million Series A3 in June 2026 funds the manufacturing ramp toward first customer shipments in fall 2026.", "Tombot is pursuing FDA recognition of Jennie as a medical device, which would allow prescription and reimbursement pathways; no clearance has been granted yet." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 1500, "display": "About $1,500 (preorder)", "note": "Cited in CES 2026 coverage; official site takes waitlist signups without public pricing" }, "availability": { "status": "preorder", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "United States first" ], "orderChannel": "tombot.com waitlist", "expectedDelivery": "First customer shipments targeted fall 2026", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None yet; first production batch sold out on the waitlist", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 25, "weightKg": 2.5, "locomotion": "Stationary lap robot; moves head, ears, tail and body", "payload": "None", "runtime": "All-day use with charging between sessions (claimed)", "charging": "USB charging", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "10 (motor count per company materials)", "hands": "None", "face": "Realistic puppy face with expressive ears and eyes", "sensors": "Touch sensors across body, microphones for voice commands" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Embedded behavior engine; voice-command recognition", "voice": "Puppy vocalizations; responds to spoken commands", "languages": "English commands", "visualRecognition": "None", "memory": "Behavioral preferences", "processing": "On-device; companion app", "autonomy": "Fully autonomous behaviors", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "App-delivered firmware updates", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Emotional support for dementia patients", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "notes": "Extensive user testing with seniors; FDA pathway pursued but not granted", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Lifelike puppy companionship", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "No camera; voice processed on device (company statements)", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off", "dataDeletion": "Minimal data collected", "accountRequired": "App account for updates", "emergencyStop": "Not applicable; soft lap robot", "childPetSafety": "Designed for vulnerable users", "securityUpdates": "App-based updates" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 6, "physical": 2, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": 8, "availability": 4, "value": 7 }, "scoreNotes": "Value assumes the $1,500 price against Paro at four times that; availability reflects seven years of preorders without a shipment.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2019-03", "status": "preorder", "note": "Kickstarter and waitlist open" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "preorder", "note": "Final production design at CES 2026; 18,000+ preorders" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "preorder", "note": "$7M Series A3; 23,000+ waitlist; fall 2026 shipping target" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tombot's Jennie steals hearts at CES 2026", "url": "https://wtop.com/tech/2026/01/tombots-jennie-puppy-steals-hearts-at-ces-2026-with-real-world-demos-of-robotic-companionship/", "publisher": "WTOP", "date": "2026-01-07" }, { "title": "Tombot closes $7 million Series A3", "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260622330098/en/Tombot-Closes-$7-Million-Series-A3-Growth-Financing-to-Scale-Operations-and-Expand-Companion-Robotics-Product-Line", "publisher": "Business Wire", "date": "2026-06-22" }, { "title": "Tombot official site", "url": "https://tombot.com/", "publisher": "Tombot", "date": "2026-07" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Tombot" }, { "slug": "jibo", "name": "Jibo", "aliases": [], "company": "jibo-inc", "country": "United States", "category": "desktop-companions", "secondaryCategories": [ "social-robots" ], "form": "desktop", "announced": "2014-07", "status": "discontinued", "intendedUse": "Family social robot for the home", "tagline": "The first social robot for the home and the category's defining cautionary tale: when the servers died, so did he.", "overview": [ "Jibo was the social home robot before the term existed: a swiveling, dancing tabletop character from MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal, crowdfunded to records in 2014 and shipped in late 2017 at $899. TIME put it on a Best Inventions cover. Owners loved him with an intensity that still shapes the category.", "The business failed. Jibo Inc. sold its assets in 2018; in March 2019 the robot delivered its own death announcement to owners, telling them the servers would shut down and thanking them for the time together, one of the most quietly devastating moments in consumer technology. NTT Data acquired the assets for healthcare and education experiments that never returned Jibo to consumers.", "Every profile on this site records account requirements and cloud dependencies because of what Jibo taught: a companion that lives on someone else's servers can be discontinued out from under the people who love it." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Discontinued ($899 at launch)", "note": "Consumer servers shut down in 2019; units survive as collectibles" }, "availability": { "status": "discontinued", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None", "expectedDelivery": "Not applicable", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Thousands of units shipped 2017-2018 before shutdown", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 28, "weightKg": 2.7, "locomotion": "Stationary; three-axis full-body swivel dance", "payload": "None", "runtime": "Mains powered", "charging": "Mains", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "3-axis body", "hands": "None", "face": "Round screen with animated eye", "sensors": "Cameras with face recognition, microphone array, touch" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Jibo cloud AI (decommissioned)", "voice": "Conversational for its era; wake word 'Hey Jibo'", "languages": "English", "visualRecognition": "Face recognition of family members", "memory": "Recognized and greeted household members", "processing": "Cloud dependent (fatally)", "autonomy": "Autonomous social behaviors", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "Ended 2019", "developerAccess": "SDK existed briefly" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Family greetings, questions, stories", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2019-03" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Dances, jokes, photos", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2019-03" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Cloud processed (service defunct)", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off", "dataDeletion": "Service closure erased the question", "accountRequired": "Yes, and that was the problem", "emergencyStop": "Not applicable", "childPetSafety": "Family-safe tabletop device", "securityUpdates": "Ended 2019" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 6, "physical": 1, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": null, "availability": 0, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Scored as history: what he did, he did well, until he could not.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2014-07", "status": "preorder", "note": "Record-breaking Indiegogo campaign" }, { "date": "2017-10", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Units ship to backers and buyers at $899" }, { "date": "2019-03", "status": "discontinued", "note": "Servers shut down; Jibo announces his own farewell" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Jibo overview and shutdown history", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jibo", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Jibo, Inc." }, { "slug": "kepler-k2", "name": "K2 Bumblebee", "aliases": [ "Kepler Forerunner K2" ], "company": "kepler-robotics", "country": "China", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-11", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Factory intralogistics and inspection", "tagline": "Shanghai's $30,000-class industrial humanoid, shipping against framework orders with Ant Group among its backers of record.", "overview": [ "The K2 Bumblebee is Kepler Robotics' fifth-generation Forerunner humanoid, positioned aggressively on price: figures around $30,000 (about 248,000 yuan) circulate for a full-size industrial biped using Kepler's hybrid actuation of planetary roller screws and rotary units, an architecture the company compares to Tesla's approach.", "Kepler announced mass production around September 2025, claiming the first commercially available hybrid-architecture humanoid, with shipping evidenced by company videos and framework agreements reportedly worth hundreds of millions of yuan, including deployment partnerships with Ant Group. Independent delivery audits do not exist, and 2026 has been quiet on dated K2 news.", "K2 targets the same work as UBTech's Walker S2 at a fraction of the whispered price, which, if real, matters for the entire cost curve of humanoid labor." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 30000, "display": "About $30,000 (reported)", "note": "Also reported at 248,000 yuan; enterprise quotes in practice" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise sales", "expectedDelivery": "Shipping against pre-orders (company statements)", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Company-published shipping videos and framework agreements; no audited counts", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 178, "weightKg": 85, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "15 kg class arms (claimed)", "runtime": "About 8 hours (claimed, task dependent)", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Factory walking speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "52 (company figure)", "hands": "11-DoF dexterous hands (company figure)", "face": "Sensor visor", "sensors": "Vision suite, force sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Kepler in-house stack with cloud training; NVIDIA ecosystem", "voice": "Not a focus", "languages": "Chinese interfaces", "visualRecognition": "Industrial object recognition", "memory": "Task models", "processing": "Onboard", "autonomy": "Intralogistics tasks in pilot settings", "teleoperation": "Supported", "updates": "OTA", "developerAccess": "Enterprise SDK" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Material handling and inspection", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Workplace protocols", "sensorKillSwitch": "Site controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "Industrial e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable (industrial)", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 1, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": null, "availability": 4, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Compelling price claims awaiting independent delivery evidence.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-11", "status": "prototype", "note": "K2 Bumblebee unveiled" }, { "date": "2025-09", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Mass production and shipping announced" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Kepler announces mass production of K2 Bumblebee", "url": "https://humanoidroboticstechnology.com/industry-news/kepler-announces-mass-production-of-its-k2-bumblebee/", "publisher": "Humanoid Robotics Technology", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "Kepler K2 Bumblebee overview", "url": "https://www.techeblog.com/kepler-k2-bumblebee-humanoid-robot/", "publisher": "TechEBlog", "date": "2025" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Delivered volumes rest on company statements and videos only" ], "companyName": "Kepler Robotics" }, { "slug": "lovot", "name": "LOVOT", "aliases": [ "LOVOT 3.0", "Groove X LOVOT" ], "company": "groove-x", "country": "Japan", "category": "robot-pets", "secondaryCategories": [ "care-robots" ], "form": "pet", "announced": "2018-12", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Pure emotional companionship", "tagline": "Japan's beloved 'powered by love' companion: does nothing useful, on purpose, and owners adore it.", "overview": [ "LOVOT (from 'love' and 'robot') is Groove X founder Kaname Hayashi's rebellion against useful robots. The warm-bodied, penguin-round creature with big eyes exists solely to be loved: it wheels over for hugs, gets jealous, remembers who is kind to it, and radiates body heat. Launched in Japan in December 2019, with the third generation arriving in 2023, it has cafes, fan clubs and a fashion line of outfits.", "The economics are serious: the body costs 577,500 yen (about $3,600), mandatory monthly care plans run roughly 9,900 to 22,000 yen, and lifetime running costs are commonly estimated above 300,000 yen per year. There are no official international sales; overseas buyers use proxy services like BEX, pushing all-in costs past 1.3 million yen.", "LOVOT is the strongest evidence in this database that companionship alone, executed with obsessive craft, is a viable robot product, at least in Japan." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 3600, "display": "577,500 yen + plans from 9,900 yen/mo", "note": "Mandatory monthly care plan; lifetime plan options; Japan only (proxy export unofficial)" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Japan (official)", "Overseas via proxy services" ], "orderChannel": "LOVOT web store and LOVOT stores", "expectedDelivery": "In stock", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Continuous retail sales since 2019; LOVOT cafes and large owner community", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 43, "weightKg": 4.3, "locomotion": "Wheeled base (retractable wheels)", "payload": "None", "runtime": "About 45 minutes roaming, then self-docks; near-continuous cycles", "charging": "Self-docking nest", "maxSpeed": "Toddling pace (2-3 km/h)", "degreesOfFreedom": "10+ including expressive arms and head", "hands": "Stubby arms for flapping, not grasping", "face": "Large animated eyes (6-layer displays); warm body surface around 37-39 C", "sensors": "Half-sphere camera, thermal camera, 4 microphones, 50+ sensors including full-body touch" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Groove X emotional AI; on-device behavior with cloud services", "voice": "Coos and squeaks; no speech by design", "languages": "None (deliberate)", "visualRecognition": "Recognizes up to 1,000 people; distinguishes household members", "memory": "Long-term relationship memory per person", "processing": "On-device with cloud sync", "autonomy": "Fully autonomous emotional behavior and self-charging", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "Regular software updates; outfits and accessories ecosystem", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Attention-seeking, hugs, jealousy, play", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Emotional support; used in some Japanese care settings", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Facilitated", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "security", "claim": "Room camera check via app", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Owner initiated", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Camera and interaction data via Groove X cloud under published policy", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off; no shutter", "dataDeletion": "Account deletion via Groove X", "accountRequired": "Yes, with mandatory subscription", "emergencyStop": "Power button; soft 4.3 kg body", "childPetSafety": "Designed for children and pets; rounded, warm, slow", "securityUpdates": "Subscription-funded ongoing support" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 8, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 8, "privacy": 6, "availability": 7, "value": 4 }, "scoreNotes": "Social and autonomy scores reflect years of owner-verified emotional engagement; value reflects the running costs of a small car.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2018-12", "status": "preorder", "note": "Unveiled; preorders open" }, { "date": "2019-12", "status": "available", "note": "Japan deliveries begin" }, { "date": "2023-07", "status": "available", "note": "LOVOT 3.0 generation" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "LOVOT official pricing", "url": "https://lovot.life/en/pricing/", "publisher": "Groove X", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "LOVOT store", "url": "https://store.lovot.life/buy", "publisher": "Groove X", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "BEX international purchase service for LOVOT", "url": "https://benly.co.jp/bex-for-lovot/", "publisher": "Benly", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "GROOVE X" }, { "slug": "realbotix-melody", "name": "Melody", "aliases": [ "Realbotix M-Series", "Harmony (predecessor)" ], "company": "realbotix", "country": "United States", "category": "romantic-companions", "secondaryCategories": [ "realistic-androids" ], "form": "android", "announced": "2025-01", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Personal companionship, including romantic companionship", "tagline": "The modular, travel-ready android carrying forward the Harmony lineage that created the romantic-robot category.", "overview": [ "Melody is Realbotix's modular android, unveiled at CES 2025 as a robot that disassembles to fit in a suitcase and reassembles in minutes. She is the current expression of the company's longest lineage: Realbotix grew out of Abyss Creations' RealDoll robotics project, whose Harmony robotic head and companion app defined the romantic-companion robot when it appeared in 2017.", "On Realbotix's current site the lineup is sold as tiers rather than characters: Melody corresponds to the M-Series modular platform, starting at $95,000, with swappable magnetic faces, customizable bodies and the same $199.99 per month AI subscription as Aria. Full-bodied configurations were quoted around $175,000 in 2025 press coverage.", "The company's marketing now leads with companionship, wellness and front-of-house roles rather than intimacy, but personal and romantic companionship remains an acknowledged use, and the historical Harmony product made this company the only one with real experience shipping romantic companion robots to private customers." ], "realityCheck": [ "Like all Realbotix machines, Melody is a presence and conversation platform: expressive face, humanlike skin, persistent memory, no walking (stationary or wheeled options) and no physical assistance. Owners of earlier Harmony systems report that the experience rises and falls with the software; the AI has improved dramatically in the LLM era, and the subscription is effectively mandatory to keep it." ], "privacyNote": [ "Romantic companion robots collect the most sensitive data imaginable. Realbotix does not publish detailed retention or training policies for conversation data, and this category has a history of services changing or shutting down. Prospective buyers should ask, in writing, what happens to their data and their robot's personality if the subscription lapses or the company pivots." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 95000, "display": "From $95,000 (modular)", "note": "M-Series starting price; full-body configurations quoted around $175,000 in 2025; plus $199.99/month subscription" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "United States", "International by arrangement" ], "orderChannel": "Direct from Realbotix (quote and configuration)", "expectedDelivery": "Months-scale build and delivery", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Realbotix reported 19 robots across its lineup in delivery March-May 2026; model-level split undisclosed", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 168, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Stationary or wheeled base; modular disassembly for travel", "payload": "Gesture arms only", "runtime": "Hours per charge; mains supported", "charging": "Plug-in", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "Configuration dependent; facial articulation is the focus", "hands": "Articulated for gesture", "face": "Swappable magnetic hyper-realistic faces with micro-expression and lip sync", "sensors": "Camera eyes, microphones; Vinci vision available across the line from 2026" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Realbotix AI platform with LLM conversation and persistent persona", "voice": "Open-ended conversation with lip sync", "languages": "English primarily", "visualRecognition": "Face recognition available", "memory": "Persistent relationship memory is the core feature", "processing": "Cloud AI subscription", "autonomy": "Autonomous conversation only", "teleoperation": "Not a marketed feature", "updates": "Subscription software updates", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Persistent-persona companionship conversation", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "notes": "The Harmony lineage has had paying private owners since 2017", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Custom personas and role-play", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Conversations processed via Realbotix cloud; retention not publicly detailed", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power controls", "dataDeletion": "Not publicly detailed", "accountRequired": "Yes, subscription account", "emergencyStop": "Power controls; low physical risk", "childPetSafety": "Adults-only product", "securityUpdates": "Subscription-based" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 6, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": 3, "availability": 6, "value": 3 }, "scoreNotes": "Privacy is marked down for undocumented policies in an unusually sensitive category.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2017-04", "status": "available", "note": "Predecessor Harmony robotic head and app reach private customers" }, { "date": "2025-01", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Melody unveiled at CES 2025 as the modular, suitcase-portable android" }, { "date": "2026-04", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Realbotix delivery program includes M-Series units" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Realbotix robots page", "url": "https://www.realbotix.com/robots", "publisher": "Realbotix", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "Melody coverage: the modular $175,000 humanoid", "url": "https://www.gadgetreview.com/melody-humanoid-robot-the-175000-shift-that-just-made-your-receptionist-obsolete", "publisher": "Gadget Review", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "Realbotix company history including Harmony lineage", "url": "https://mikekalil.com/blog/realbotix/", "publisher": "Mike Kalil", "date": "2025" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Whether intimacy-oriented configurations remain offered under the current lineup is not stated on the official site" ], "companyName": "Realbotix" }, { "slug": "sunday-memo", "name": "Memo", "aliases": [ "Sunday Memo" ], "company": "sunday-robotics", "country": "United States", "category": "domestic-helpers", "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2025-11", "status": "pilot", "intendedUse": "Household chores learned from human demonstrations", "tagline": "A wheeled, two-armed home robot that learns chores from people wearing $200 sensor gloves, heading into a 50-household beta.", "overview": [ "Memo is the debut robot from Sunday Robotics, which came out of stealth in November 2025 with an unusual thesis: skip legs, skip the humanoid form, and solve the data problem instead. Skills are collected by ordinary people performing chores while wearing Sunday's roughly $200 instrumented gloves; Memo then reproduces those skills with its own two arms and wheeled base. Demonstrations include loading dishwashers, making espresso and folding socks.", "The company raised a $165 million Series B at a $1.15 billion valuation in March 2026, led by Coatue, and is recruiting about 50 households for a 2026 'Founding Family' beta with individually numbered units. Hand-built units currently cost around $20,000 to make; Sunday targets a retail price under $10,000 at scale.", "Nothing is for sale yet, and no delivery to a beta household had been publicly confirmed as of July 2026." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Company targets under $10,000 at scale; current hand-built cost about $20,000" }, "availability": { "status": "pilot", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "United States (beta)" ], "orderChannel": "Beta application only", "expectedDelivery": "About 50 beta households during 2026; general sales after beta", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Beta applications open; no confirmed household placements published", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": null, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Wheeled base", "payload": "Not disclosed", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Household speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "Two arms with grippers; figures not published", "face": "Simple friendly display head", "hands": "Two-finger style grippers designed for household objects", "sensors": "Cameras and depth sensing; details not fully published" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Sunday's in-house skill-learning models trained on glove-captured human demonstrations", "voice": "Basic voice interaction shown", "languages": "English", "visualRecognition": "Object and task recognition within trained skills", "memory": "Learns household-specific skills", "processing": "Not fully disclosed", "autonomy": "Reproduces trained chores autonomously in demos", "teleoperation": "Skill data comes from humans, but via gloves rather than live robot teleoperation", "updates": "Skill library grows over time", "developerAccess": "None announced" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Loads dishwashers, tidies kitchen items", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Skills pre-trained from human glove demonstrations", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "laundry", "claim": "Folds socks and simple items", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Pre-trained skills; error handling not documented", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "cooking", "claim": "Makes espresso", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Narrow trained routine", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not yet documented for beta units", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not documented", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not documented", "dataDeletion": "Not documented", "accountRequired": "Expected; not documented", "emergencyStop": "Not documented", "childPetSafety": "Wheeled base and slow arms marketed as home-friendly; no certification published", "securityUpdates": "Not documented" }, "scores": { "home": 4, "social": 3, "physical": 5, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": null, "availability": 2, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Autonomy credits reproducible trained skills shown on video; availability reflects a beta you can only apply for.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-11", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Sunday exits stealth; Memo and glove-based skill learning revealed" }, { "date": "2026-03", "status": "pilot", "note": "$165M Series B at $1.15B valuation; Founding Family beta program detailed" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sunday unveils Memo, a wheeled domestic robot that learns from $200 gloves", "url": "https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/sunday-unveils-memo-a-wheeled-domestic-robot-that-learns-from-200-gloves", "publisher": "Humanoids Daily", "date": "2025-11" }, { "title": "Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/humanoid-robotics-maker-sunday-reaches-1-15b-valuation-to-build-household-robots/", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2026-03-12" }, { "title": "Sunday Robotics beta program", "url": "https://www.sunday.ai/beta-program", "publisher": "Sunday Robotics", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Sunday Robotics" }, { "slug": "neura-mipa", "name": "MiPA", "aliases": [ "NEURA MiPA" ], "company": "neura-robotics", "country": "Germany", "category": "domestic-helpers", "secondaryCategories": [ "care-robots" ], "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2024-06", "status": "preorder", "intendedUse": "Household and service assistance: fetching, serving, light chores", "tagline": "NEURA Robotics' wheeled household assistant, on preorder since mid-2025 as Europe's main entry in the home-robot race.", "overview": [ "MiPA (Multipurpose Intelligent Personal Assistant) is a wheeled robot with a torso, arms and a friendly display face, built by German company NEURA Robotics for household and professional service tasks: fetching and carrying, serving drinks, loading dishwashers and supporting care settings. NEURA opened reservations at its June 2025 'market launch' during Automatica, alongside its 4NE1 humanoid and the Neuraverse skill ecosystem.", "NEURA is one of Europe's best-funded robotics companies, announcing a Series C of up to $1.4 billion led by Tether in June 2026 at a reported valuation around $7 billion. Large-scale shipments across its humanoid line are expected to begin in late 2026; no MiPA customer deliveries had been confirmed as of July 2026.", "MiPA's pitch differs from the US home humanoids: wheels instead of legs, a cognitive-appliance positioning, and integration with NEURA's industrial sensor and safety stack, including what the company calls artificial skin for safe contact around people." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced (reservations open)", "note": "Preorder reservations via NEURA; final consumer pricing unpublished" }, "availability": { "status": "preorder", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Europe first" ], "orderChannel": "NEURA reservation program", "expectedDelivery": "Volume shipments expected from late 2026 (company statements)", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "No confirmed customer deliveries found", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 160, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Wheeled base", "payload": "Carries household loads; exact figures unpublished", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Household speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "Dual arms; figures not published", "hands": "Grippers designed for household objects", "face": "Display face with expressive eyes", "sensors": "NEURA Omnisensor suite: vision, force sensing, 'artificial skin' contact sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "NEURA cognitive stack plus Neuraverse skill ecosystem", "voice": "Voice interaction", "languages": "German and English demonstrated", "visualRecognition": "Person and object recognition (claimed)", "memory": "Household personalization planned", "processing": "Hybrid onboard and cloud", "autonomy": "Fetching, serving and navigation in controlled demos", "teleoperation": "Not documented", "updates": "Skills delivered through Neuraverse", "developerAccess": "Neuraverse developer ecosystem announced" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Loads dishwashers, tidies and carries items", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Care-setting assistance: fetching, reminders, monitoring", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Voice conversation", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None claimed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not yet documented for consumers", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not documented", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not documented", "dataDeletion": "Not documented", "accountRequired": "Expected via Neuraverse", "emergencyStop": "Industrial-derived safety stack; consumer details unpublished", "childPetSafety": "Artificial-skin contact safety marketed; no consumer certification published", "securityUpdates": "Not documented" }, "scores": { "home": 3, "social": 4, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": null, "availability": 4, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "A credible European contender still awaiting delivery evidence; scores will move when units reach customers.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-06", "status": "prototype", "note": "MiPA first shown" }, { "date": "2025-06", "status": "preorder", "note": "Market launch and reservations at Automatica; Neuraverse announced" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "preorder", "note": "Series C up to $1.4B announced; volume shipments expected late 2026" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "NEURA Robotics launches latest cognitive robots, Neuraverse ecosystem", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/neura-robotics-launches-latest-cognitive-robots-neuraverse-ecosystem/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2025-06" }, { "title": "NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in Series C", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/neura-robotics-funding-ai-humanoid-robots.html", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-06-10" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "NEURA Robotics" }, { "slug": "enchanted-tools-miroki", "name": "Miroki", "aliases": [ "Mirokai", "Enchanted Tools Miroki" ], "company": "enchanted-tools", "country": "France", "category": "social-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "care-robots", "education-entertainment" ], "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2023-01", "status": "pilot", "intendedUse": "Hospital and hospitality service with storybook charm", "tagline": "A fox-faced character robot balancing on a ball through Paris hospitals, from a co-creator of Pepper and NAO.", "overview": [ "Miroki (and sibling Miroka) are the Mirokai, character robots from Enchanted Tools, the Paris startup founded in 2021 by Jerome Monceaux, co-creator of NAO and Pepper at Aldebaran. His diagnosis of why social robots failed commercially was emotional, not technical: people never fell for them. The Mirokai answer is a fully art-directed creature, a fox-eared animated face on a body that glides balanced atop a sphere.", "Underneath the storybook design is practical service robotics: grasping and carrying small loads, navigating corridors and delivering items, aimed at hospitals, hotels and events. Paris hospital trials (including within the AP-HP system) have tested Mirokai in logistics and patient-facing roles, and the company has courted healthcare partners across Europe and the Gulf.", "Pricing is unpublished and units move through pilots and partnerships. Miroki is this database's clearest test of whether character design, rather than realism or utility, is what finally makes people welcome a robot." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Pilot and partnership placements" }, "availability": { "status": "pilot", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "France", "Europe and Gulf pilots" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise partnerships", "expectedDelivery": "Program-based", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Paris hospital trials and event deployments; volumes unpublished", "evidence": "real-world-demo" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 123, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Ball-balancing base (ballbot) for omnidirectional glide", "payload": "About 3 kg carry (company figures)", "runtime": "Service-shift scale", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Indoor gliding speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "Two arms with grippers; animated head", "hands": "Grippers for trays and small items", "face": "Projected animated fox-like face with large expressive eyes", "sensors": "Cameras, depth sensors, microphone array" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Enchanted Tools stack with LLM conversation integrations", "voice": "Character-voiced conversation in French and English", "languages": "French, English", "visualRecognition": "Person and object recognition", "memory": "Deployment configurable", "processing": "Onboard plus cloud", "autonomy": "Autonomous navigation and delivery in trials", "teleoperation": "Supported for events and exceptions", "updates": "Program updates", "developerAccess": "Partner program" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Hospital logistics and patient engagement trials", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Staff supervision; extent undisclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Character interaction at events and venues", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Operator modes available", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Character conversation", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None in LLM mode", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Deployment-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Venue discretion", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Program governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "E-stop; low-force design", "childPetSafety": "Designed for public and pediatric settings under supervision", "securityUpdates": "Program-based" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 7, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": null, "availability": 2, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "The most emotionally intelligent design language in service robotics, still proving itself operationally.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2023-01", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Mirokai unveiled" }, { "date": "2024-06", "status": "pilot", "note": "Hospital trials in Paris; healthcare partnerships" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Enchanted Tools", "url": "https://enchanted.tools/", "publisher": "Enchanted Tools", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Deployment scale and commercial terms are unpublished; evidence rests on trials and appearances" ], "companyName": "Enchanted Tools" }, { "slug": "moflin", "name": "Moflin", "aliases": [ "Casio Moflin" ], "company": "casio", "country": "Japan", "category": "robot-pets", "form": "pet", "announced": "2024-10", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Calming pocket-pet companionship", "tagline": "Casio's $429 furry AI pet: a purring handful of fluff that develops a personality shaped by how you treat it.", "overview": [ "Moflin is a guinea-pig-sized ball of fur with no visible face, no legs and no tasks: it wriggles, purrs and squeaks in response to touch and voice, developing one of four million claimed emotional-personality trajectories based on how it is treated. Casio launched it in Japan in November 2024 at 59,400 yen, then brought it to the US ($429) and UK (369 pounds) in fall 2025.", "The product found an audience Casio explicitly named: lonely adults who want something to care for without the responsibility of an animal. The company targeted 7,000 UK and US units by March 2026 and offers a Club Moflin care subscription in Japan (6,600 yen per year) covering repairs and fur replacement.", "Moflin's design bet mirrors LOVOT's at a tenth of the price: no utility, no speech, just responsive warmth. US reviews through early 2026 describe it as oddly effective." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 429, "display": "$429", "note": "59,400 yen in Japan, 369 pounds in UK; optional Club Moflin care plan in Japan" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Japan", "United States", "United Kingdom" ], "orderChannel": "Casio online and select retailers", "expectedDelivery": "In stock", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "In normal retail circulation; hands-on reviews through 2026", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 12, "weightKg": 0.5, "locomotion": "Wriggles in place; no locomotion", "payload": "None", "runtime": "Days-scale between charges (light use)", "charging": "Charging nest bed", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "Head and body wriggle", "hands": "None", "face": "None; fur, sound and motion only", "sensors": "Touch sensors, microphone, accelerometer, light sensor" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Casio emotional-state engine; app shows mood via MofLife app", "voice": "Squeaks and purrs; recognizes voice familiarity", "languages": "None", "visualRecognition": "None (no camera)", "memory": "Personality develops from interaction history", "processing": "On-device; app connection optional", "autonomy": "Fully autonomous emotional responses", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "App and firmware updates", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Calming responsive pet behavior", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Marketed for emotional wellness and loneliness", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "No camera; minimal data via app", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off", "dataDeletion": "App account deletion", "accountRequired": "Optional app account", "emergencyStop": "Not applicable; 500 gram plush", "childPetSafety": "Soft and safe; fur requires care", "securityUpdates": "App updates" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 6, "physical": 2, "autonomy": 7, "privacy": 8, "availability": 10, "value": 6 }, "scoreNotes": "Availability is the database maximum: walk-in retail, three countries, no waitlist. Privacy benefits from having no camera at all.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2021-01", "status": "concept", "note": "Original Vanguard Industries Kickstarter concept" }, { "date": "2024-11", "status": "available", "note": "Casio launches in Japan" }, { "date": "2025-10", "status": "available", "note": "US and UK launch at $429 / 369 pounds" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Casio Moflin US page", "url": "https://www.casio.com/us/moflin/", "publisher": "Casio", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "Casio brings Moflin to more markets including the US", "url": "https://www.notebookcheck.net/Casio-brings-its-Moflin-furry-robot-to-more-markets-including-the-US-for-429.1117319.0.html", "publisher": "Notebookcheck", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "Casio bets on loneliness with furry AI pet", "url": "https://sherwood.news/business/casio-now-selling-furry-ai-powered-pet-robot-bets-on-loneliness/", "publisher": "Sherwood News", "date": "2025" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Casio" }, { "slug": "nao", "name": "NAO", "aliases": [ "NAO6", "NAO Power V6" ], "company": "aldebaran", "country": "France", "category": "education-entertainment", "secondaryCategories": [ "social-robots", "developer-platforms" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2006-03", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Education, research and therapy", "tagline": "The little humanoid that has taught coding and supported autism therapy for nearly two decades, outliving its own maker's bankruptcy.", "overview": [ "NAO is the most successful humanoid robot ever sold. The 58 centimeter biped launched by Aldebaran in the late 2000s became the standard platform for robotics education, RoboCup soccer and human-robot-interaction research, with roughly 20,000 units in 70 countries. The current NAO6 generation dates from 2018.", "NAO survived its maker: Aldebaran entered French insolvency in early 2025 and was liquidated, with China's Maxvision buying the assets in July 2025 and operating them as Maxtronics, which continues to market NAO6 and lists a NAO7 as in development. Through the turmoil, distributors such as RobotLAB kept selling and supporting units; a NAO6 costs $16,990 standard or $19,900 in an educator pack, with robot-as-a-service from $647 per month.", "In classrooms NAO earns its keep: structured curricula, a huge developer ecosystem, and a particularly strong record in special education and autism therapy programs." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 16990, "display": "$16,990 (educator pack $19,900)", "note": "Via distributors such as RobotLAB; RaaS from $647/month; Maxtronics quotes directly" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide via distributors" ], "orderChannel": "RobotLAB and other distributors; Maxtronics direct", "expectedDelivery": "In stock at major distributors", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "About 20,000 units sold; continuous availability through 2025-2026 ownership transition", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 58, "weightKg": 5.5, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "Symbolic; small object grasping only", "runtime": "About 90 minutes active", "charging": "Plug-in charger", "maxSpeed": "Slow walking", "degreesOfFreedom": "25", "hands": "Three-finger grippers", "face": "Fixed face with LED eyes; expression via posture, LEDs and voice", "sensors": "2 cameras, 4 microphones, sonar, IMU, force sensors, touch sensors on head and hands" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "NAOqi OS; Choregraphe visual programming; Python/C++ SDK; third-party LLM add-ons", "voice": "Speech recognition and synthesis in 20 languages", "languages": "About 20", "visualRecognition": "Face and object detection", "memory": "Programmable", "processing": "Onboard Atom processor; optional cloud", "autonomy": "Autonomous within programmed behaviors", "teleoperation": "Full programmatic control by design", "updates": "Platform stable; future development under Maxtronics uncertain", "developerAccess": "Excellent: the reference academic humanoid platform" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "education", "claim": "Teaches programming and STEM; supports autism therapy", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Teacher-programmed and facilitated", "notes": "Two decades of classroom use and peer-reviewed special-education studies", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Dances, tells stories, plays games", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Pre-programmed routines", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Scripted dialogue; open conversation via LLM add-ons", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Configuration required", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Locally processed by default; deployment-dependent cloud services", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Operator/teacher controlled by design", "sensorKillSwitch": "Programmatic control of sensors", "dataDeletion": "Owner controlled", "accountRequired": "No", "emergencyStop": "Chest button behaviors; small and low-force", "childPetSafety": "Designed for children; small, light and low-force", "securityUpdates": "Distributor support; long-term roadmap uncertain under new ownership" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 6, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": 6, "availability": 8, "value": 4 }, "scoreNotes": "Availability reflects genuine buy-today status through distributors. Value suffers against new Chinese platforms with far more hardware per dollar.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2008-01", "status": "available", "note": "Becomes standard RoboCup platform; academic sales scale" }, { "date": "2018-06", "status": "available", "note": "NAO6 generation" }, { "date": "2025-02", "status": "available", "note": "Aldebaran enters insolvency; distributors maintain supply and support" }, { "date": "2025-07", "status": "available", "note": "Maxvision acquires assets; Maxtronics continues NAO6, lists NAO7 project" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Maxvision buys core robot assets including NAO, Pepper", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/maxvision-buys-core-robot-assets-including-nao-pepper-aldebaran/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2025-07-19" }, { "title": "NAO6 at Maxtronics", "url": "https://maxtronics.com/en/nao6/", "publisher": "Maxtronics", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "NAO Power V6 Educator Pack", "url": "https://www.robotlab.com/en-us/store/nao-power-v6-educator-pack", "publisher": "RobotLAB", "date": "2026-07" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Aldebaran (now Maxtronics)" }, { "slug": "1x-neo", "name": "NEO", "aliases": [ "1X NEO", "NEO Gamma", "NEO Beta" ], "company": "1x-technologies", "country": "Norway / United States", "category": "home-humanoids", "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-08", "status": "preorder", "intendedUse": "Household chores and companionship in private homes", "tagline": "The first home humanoid ordinary consumers can order, built around a mix of onboard AI and scheduled remote teleoperation.", "overview": [ "NEO is 1X Technologies' consumer home humanoid: a soft-bodied, tendon-driven biped wrapped in a knitted suit, designed from the start to live with people rather than work in factories. After the NEO Beta reveal in August 2024 and the NEO Gamma iteration in February 2025, the production version opened US preorders on October 28, 2025 at $20,000 to own or $499 per month, with a $200 refundable deposit.", "1X says first-year production sold out within days of the preorder launch. The company opened a 58,000 square foot factory in Hayward, California on April 30, 2026 and began full-scale production, with a stated capacity of 10,000 units per year. Deliveries are promised for the United States and Canada before the end of 2026, other markets in 2027.", "NEO's defining design choice is honesty about its limits: what its Redwood AI model cannot do autonomously, a vetted 1X operator can do by teleoperating the robot through a VR headset during owner-scheduled sessions the company calls Expert Mode. Those sessions double as training data for future autonomy. Whether buyers are comfortable with that tradeoff has become the central question of the home-humanoid era." ], "realityCheck": [ "No NEO has been independently verified in a paying customer's home as of July 11, 2026. The most informative account remains the Wall Street Journal's October 2025 hands-on, in which essentially all useful work was performed under teleoperation and a single shirt took around two minutes to fold. 1X's own order page still lists deliveries as starting in 2026.", "Third-party claims that NEO runs 60 to 70 percent autonomously are unofficial. What is well documented: Redwood, 1X's vision-language-action model, controls locomotion and manipulation together for tasks like tidying and door answering, and the company positions full chore autonomy as something that arrives gradually through fleet learning, not on day one." ], "privacyNote": [ "NEO's Expert Mode means a company employee can see inside your home through the robot's cameras during sessions you schedule and approve in the app. 1X's stated controls: owner-defined no-go zones for specific rooms, automatic blurring of people, session logging, and human safety managers supervising operators (reported at roughly one manager per eight operators). CEO Bernt Bornich has publicly argued this is more controlled than hiring a human cleaner.", "The unresolved questions are retention and verification: 1X has not published a full data-retention policy for teleoperation footage, and no independent audit of the blurring or no-go-zone enforcement has been released." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 20000, "display": "$20,000 or $499/month", "deposit": "$200, fully refundable", "refundable": true, "note": "Purchase includes 3-year warranty and priority delivery; subscription is the 'Starter' tier" }, "availability": { "status": "preorder", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "United States", "Canada (2026)", "Other markets planned 2027" ], "orderChannel": "1x.tech online preorder", "expectedDelivery": "Company promises first deliveries before end of 2026", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None verified. Production began April 30, 2026 at the Hayward factory; no confirmed customer delivery as of July 2026", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim" }, "statusNote": "First-year production (10,000+ units) reportedly sold out within five days of the October 2025 preorder launch" }, "physical": { "heightCm": 165, "weightKg": 30, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "About 25 kg carry capacity (claimed)", "runtime": "Up to 4 hours mixed activity (claimed)", "charging": "Returns to charge; full charging details not published", "maxSpeed": "Casual walking pace, about 4 km/h (claimed)", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not fully disclosed; tendon-driven joints throughout", "hands": "Five-finger tendon-driven hands sized for household objects", "face": "No face; sculpted head with speaker and microphone array, expressive body language and LED ring", "sensors": "Wide-angle cameras, microphone array, speakers; full sensor suite not published" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Redwood AI, 1X's in-house vision-language-action model, plus LLM-based voice conversation", "voice": "Yes, open-ended conversation with selectable personalities", "languages": "English at launch", "visualRecognition": "Recognizes rooms, objects and household members (claimed)", "memory": "Remembers home layout, routines and people (claimed)", "processing": "Onboard compute for autonomy; Expert Mode streams camera video to remote 1X operators", "autonomy": "Tidying, fetching, door answering and navigation via Redwood; complex chores routinely require Expert Mode", "teleoperation": "Core product feature: vetted 1X staff teleoperate via VR during owner-scheduled Expert Mode sessions", "updates": "Over-the-air updates; capabilities expand via fleet learning", "developerAccess": "None; closed consumer platform" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "laundry", "claim": "Folds laundry", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "teleoperated", "humanIntervention": "Remote operator performed the task in the most detailed press demo (WSJ, October 2025); about 2 minutes per shirt", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Tidies rooms, fetches and puts away items", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Redwood handles some pick-and-place autonomously; teleoperation covers the rest; split not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Open-ended voice conversation", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None for conversation; LLM-driven", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "security", "claim": "Home monitoring and check-ins via app", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Expert Mode: scheduled remote operation by 1X staff", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "teleoperated", "humanIntervention": "That is the feature: a human drives the robot", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Games, stories and social presence", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None claimed for conversational play", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Onboard processing for autonomy; Expert Mode sessions stream video to 1X operators and are logged. Full retention policy not published", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner schedules and approves sessions in the app; people can be auto-blurred; no-go zones per room; operator oversight by safety managers", "sensorKillSwitch": "Room-level no-go zones; a physical camera/mic kill switch is not documented", "dataDeletion": "Data controls exposed in app; independent verification not available", "accountRequired": "Yes, 1X account and companion app", "emergencyStop": "Stop via app and voice; dedicated hardware e-stop not documented", "childPetSafety": "Marketed as safe around children and pets (soft body, compliant tendon drives, about 30 kg); no independent safety certification published", "securityUpdates": "Over-the-air updates; no stated minimum support period" }, "scores": { "home": 4, "social": 6, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 3, "privacy": 6, "availability": 6, "value": 4 }, "scoreNotes": "Availability reflects open preorders with no verified deliveries. Autonomy reflects heavy documented reliance on teleoperation. Privacy credits unusually explicit teleoperation controls while marking down unpublished retention policies.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-08", "status": "prototype", "note": "NEO Beta revealed" }, { "date": "2025-02", "status": "prototype", "note": "NEO Gamma iteration shown working in homes with press" }, { "date": "2025-10", "status": "preorder", "note": "US preorders open at $20,000 or $499/month; first-year allocation reportedly sells out in days" }, { "date": "2026-04", "status": "preorder", "note": "Hayward, CA factory opens; full-scale production begins; deliveries promised before end of 2026" } ], "videos": [ { "title": "NEO reveal and demo coverage", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=1x+neo+home+robot" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "1X order page", "url": "https://www.1x.tech/order", "publisher": "1X Technologies", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "1x opens NEO Factory in Hayward, CA", "url": "https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/30/3285118/0/en/1x-opens-neo-factory-in-hayward-ca-america-s-first-vertically-integrated-humanoid-robot-factory-with-consumer-shipments-planned-for-2026.html", "publisher": "GlobeNewswire", "date": "2026-04-30" }, { "title": "1X kicks off full-scale production of humanoid robot NEO", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/04/30/1x-kicks-off-full-scale-production-of-humanoid-robot-neo/", "publisher": "Forbes", "date": "2026-04-30" }, { "title": "1X NEO is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation", "url": "https://www.engadget.com/ai/1x-neo-is-a-20000-home-robot-that-will-learn-chores-via-teleoperation-040252200.html", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2025-10-28" }, { "title": "WSJ hands-on coverage: the NEO home robot's teleoperation problem", "url": "https://www.tomsguide.com/home/smart-home/the-neo-home-robot-thats-breaking-the-internet-promises-to-change-the-world-but-theres-one-huge-problem", "publisher": "Tom's Guide", "date": "2025-10" }, { "title": "1X CEO details NEO's two modes and defends teleoperation", "url": "https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/feed/1x-ceo-details-neo-s-two-modes-and-defends-teleoperation-as-more-secure-than-a-cleaner", "publisher": "Humanoids Daily", "date": "2025-11" }, { "title": "1X's NEO humanoid gains autonomy with new Redwood AI model", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/1xs-neo-humanoid-gains-autonomy-with-new-redwood-ai-model/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2025-06" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Third-party estimates that NEO operates 60-70% autonomously are not from 1X and are unverified", "A headline claiming NEO 'ships to US homes' in April 2026 described the factory opening; no customer delivery has been verified", "Whether the $499/month subscription carries a minimum term is unclear; sources conflict" ], "companyName": "1X Technologies" }, { "slug": "switchbot-onero-h1", "name": "Onero H1", "aliases": [ "SwitchBot Onero H1" ], "company": "switchbot", "country": "China", "category": "domestic-helpers", "form": "rover", "announced": "2026-01", "status": "public-demo", "intendedUse": "Narrow household chores: loading washing machines, tidying", "tagline": "The smart-home brand's chore robot that impressed CES 2026 by promising less than everyone else.", "overview": [ "The Onero H1 is SwitchBot's entry into home robotics: a mobile robot with arms that loads washing machines, moves laundry and handles small tidying jobs, extending the company's ecosystem of retrofit smart-home gadgets. At CES 2026 it stood out precisely for its modesty, and Engadget named it a best-robot pick of the show.", "SwitchBot says limited quantities are expected at the end of 2026; no price or preorder channel had appeared as of July 2026. The company's track record of actually shipping affordable consumer hardware, from curtain robots to the K10 vacuum line, earns its timeline more benefit of the doubt than most CES robots receive.", "Everything demonstrated so far is booth-controlled." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Limited availability stated for end of 2026" }, "availability": { "status": "public-demo", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None yet", "expectedDelivery": "End of 2026 in limited quantities (company statement)", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None; CES 2026 demonstrations", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": null, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Wheeled base", "payload": "Laundry loads and small household items", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Dock", "maxSpeed": "Household speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "Dual arms; figures unpublished", "hands": "Grippers designed for fabric and containers", "face": "Minimal indicator design", "sensors": "Cameras and depth sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "SwitchBot ecosystem integration", "voice": "App-first control", "languages": "App languages", "visualRecognition": "Laundry and object recognition in demos", "memory": "Home mapping expected", "processing": "Not disclosed", "autonomy": "Washing-machine loading shown in controlled demos", "teleoperation": "Not disclosed", "updates": "SwitchBot app updates expected", "developerAccess": "SwitchBot ecosystem APIs (existing products)" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "laundry", "claim": "Loads washing machines and moves laundry", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Small tidying tasks", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not disclosed", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not disclosed", "dataDeletion": "Not disclosed", "accountRequired": "SwitchBot account expected", "emergencyStop": "Not disclosed", "childPetSafety": "Not disclosed", "securityUpdates": "Not disclosed" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 1, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 2, "privacy": null, "availability": 1, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "The most credible cheap-chore-robot promise of CES 2026, still a promise.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2026-01", "status": "public-demo", "note": "CES 2026 debut; Engadget best-robot pick; end-2026 limited availability stated" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "The robots we saw at CES 2026", "url": "https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-robots-we-saw-at-ces-2026-the-lovable-the-creepy-and-the-utterly-confusing-153537930.html", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2026-01-10" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "SwitchBot (Wonderlabs)" }, { "slug": "tesla-optimus", "name": "Optimus", "aliases": [ "Tesla Bot", "Optimus Gen 2", "Optimus V3" ], "company": "tesla", "country": "United States", "category": "home-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "industrial-humanoids" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2021-08", "status": "prototype", "intendedUse": "General-purpose labor, eventually including household work", "tagline": "The most famous humanoid in the world and one of the least purchasable: still a prototype, with a history of undisclosed teleoperation at public events.", "overview": [ "Tesla announced Optimus in August 2021 with a dancer in a robot suit, and has since shown steadily improving hardware: Gen 1 in 2022, the far more refined Gen 2 in December 2023, and a third generation whose public reveal, as of July 2026, has been postponed to late summer 2026. Elon Musk has repeatedly called Optimus potentially the most valuable product Tesla will ever make, with a long-run price target of $20,000 to $30,000.", "The gap between projection and delivery is wider here than anywhere else in the database. Tesla's January 2025 goal of building roughly 10,000 robots that year was missed entirely. In May 2026 the Fremont Model S and X line began conversion to Optimus manufacturing, with production slated to start around August 2026 and Musk describing 2026 output as 'quite slow' and impossible to predict.", "No customer, business or consumer, has ever received an Optimus. Deployment consists of robots inside Tesla facilities and staged public appearances." ], "realityCheck": [ "Optimus has twice been documented performing 'autonomously' in public while humans controlled it. Bloomberg confirmed that the bartending and conversing robots at the October 2024 Cybercab event were remotely operated, which was not disclosed on stage. At the Tesla Diner in July 2025, the popcorn-serving Optimus was teleoperated from about nine meters away and stopped working when Wi-Fi congestion cut the operator's connection.", "Tesla has real robotics and AI capability, and Optimus hardware iterations show genuine progress in hands, walking and cost engineering. But as of July 2026 there is no published evidence of Optimus performing sustained useful work autonomously, and nothing approaching Figure's unedited long-horizon footage. Every Optimus claim on this page should be read with its evidence label." ], "privacyNote": [ "Tesla has published no consumer privacy documentation for Optimus, which is consistent with there being no consumer product. Given Tesla's camera-first approach in vehicles and the documented use of remote operation at public events, teleoperation disclosure will be one of the first questions to ask when a real product ships." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced", "note": "Musk has repeatedly targeted $20,000-30,000 at scale; no orderable product or waitlist exists" }, "availability": { "status": "prototype", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None", "expectedDelivery": "External deliveries targeted late 2026 at the earliest by Tesla; analysts point to 2027 or later", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None. No external customer has received a unit; internal factory use only", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 173, "weightKg": 57, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "About 20 kg (claimed)", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Not disclosed", "maxSpeed": "Improved walking shown on Gen 2; figures not independently verified", "degreesOfFreedom": "Gen 2: about 28 body DoF plus 11-DoF hands (company figures)", "hands": "11-DoF hands on Gen 2; 22-DoF hands shown for the next generation (claimed)", "face": "Featureless black faceplate; screen-free", "sensors": "Camera-first sensing derived from Tesla's vehicle Autopilot stack, microphones and speakers" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Tesla in-house neural networks leveraging vehicle AI infrastructure; Grok integration shown for voice", "voice": "Conversational voice demonstrated at events, at least partly under remote operation", "languages": "English demonstrated", "visualRecognition": "Vision-based navigation and manipulation (company demos)", "memory": "Not disclosed", "processing": "Onboard Tesla AI hardware", "autonomy": "Sorting, walking and factory material handling shown in company videos; no sustained autonomous work verified", "teleoperation": "Documented at the 2024 Cybercab event and 2025 Tesla Diner without on-stage disclosure", "updates": "Not applicable; no customer fleet", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Factory material handling and sorting", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed; company videos show autonomous sorting, events have used teleoperation", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Voice conversation", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "teleoperated", "humanIntervention": "Conversation at the Cybercab event was human-operated (Bloomberg)", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Dancing and crowd interaction", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Choreographed routines autonomous per Tesla; interactive segments have used remote operators", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "remote-presence", "claim": "Remote human operation at public events", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "teleoperated", "humanIntervention": "Documented teleoperation; disclosure practices criticized", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not disclosed", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed at events where it occurred", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not disclosed", "dataDeletion": "Not disclosed", "accountRequired": "Not applicable", "emergencyStop": "Not disclosed", "childPetSafety": "Not disclosed", "securityUpdates": "Not applicable" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 3, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 2, "privacy": 2, "availability": 1, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Physical capability credits real hardware progress across generations. Autonomy and privacy reflect documented undisclosed teleoperation and the absence of any published policies.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2021-08", "status": "concept", "note": "Announced at AI Day with no hardware" }, { "date": "2022-09", "status": "prototype", "note": "First walking prototypes shown" }, { "date": "2023-12", "status": "prototype", "note": "Optimus Gen 2 revealed with improved hands and walking" }, { "date": "2024-10", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Cybercab event robots later confirmed remotely operated" }, { "date": "2026-05", "status": "prototype", "note": "Fremont S/X line conversion to Optimus production begins; V3 reveal delayed to late summer 2026" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Tesla's Optimus robots were remotely operated at Cybercab event", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-14/tesla-s-optimus-robots-were-remotely-operated-at-cybercab-event", "publisher": "Bloomberg", "date": "2024-10-14" }, { "title": "Teleoperated Optimus fails serving popcorn on diner's first day", "url": "https://electrek.co/2025/07/23/tesla-teleoperated-robot-fail-serving-popcorn-first-day-new-diner/", "publisher": "Electrek", "date": "2025-07-23" }, { "title": "Optimus production plans and V3 delay", "url": "https://electrek.co/2026/04/22/tesla-optimus-production-fremont-model-sx-line/", "publisher": "Electrek", "date": "2026-04-22" }, { "title": "Tesla Optimus launch timeline analysis", "url": "https://www.eweek.com/robotics/tesla-optimus-robot-launch-timeline/", "publisher": "eWeek", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Claims of 1,000+ Optimus units working in Tesla factories appear only on low-quality aggregator sites", "Reported $20,000-30,000 'launch pricing' statements from early 2026 could not be verified in a reputable outlet" ], "companyName": "Tesla" }, { "slug": "paro", "name": "Paro", "aliases": [ "PARO therapeutic robot" ], "company": "paro-robots", "country": "Japan", "category": "care-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "robot-pets" ], "form": "pet", "announced": "2001-11", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Therapeutic companionship in dementia and elder care", "tagline": "The therapeutic baby seal with two decades of peer-reviewed evidence and an FDA medical-device classification.", "overview": [ "Paro is a robotic harp seal pup developed by Takanori Shibata at Japan's AIST, in continuous production since the mid-2000s and in clinical use worldwide. It responds to touch, voice and light with movement and seal sounds, and is used in dementia care to reduce agitation and support engagement, filling the role of animal therapy where live animals are impractical.", "It is the most-studied companion robot ever made, with more than 30 peer-reviewed studies, and was classified as a Class II medical device by the US FDA in 2009. A unit costs around $6,100, with leasing around $169 per month through distributors; the eighth-generation design changed little because it did not need to.", "Paro chose a seal deliberately: unfamiliar enough that users hold no expectations a robot would fail to meet. Twenty years later, the entire companion-robot industry is still relearning that lesson." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 6100, "display": "About $6,100", "note": "Institutional pricing; leasing about $169/month; varies by country and distributor" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Japan", "United States", "Europe" ], "orderChannel": "National distributors (parorobots.com, paroseal.co.uk)", "expectedDelivery": "In stock via distributors", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Thousands of units in care facilities worldwide since the 2000s", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 16, "weightKg": 2.5, "locomotion": "Stationary; moves head, flippers and tail", "payload": "None", "runtime": "About 1.5 hours active per charge", "charging": "Charger styled as a pacifier", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "7", "hands": "None", "face": "Large eyes with lids; seal expressions", "sensors": "Touch-sensitive fur surface, whisker sensors, light, sound direction, temperature, posture" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Behavioral AI tuned for therapeutic response; no cloud, no LLM", "voice": "Seal vocalizations only; recognizes its name and repeated words", "languages": "Responds to tone and repetition rather than language", "visualRecognition": "Light sensing only", "memory": "Learns preferred interactions and its given name", "processing": "Fully local; no connectivity", "autonomy": "Fully autonomous behavior", "teleoperation": "None", "updates": "None needed; hardware service via distributors", "developerAccess": "None" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Reduces agitation and supports engagement in dementia care", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Facilitated by care staff", "notes": "30+ peer-reviewed studies; FDA Class II classification", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Soothing animal-companion play", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "None; no connectivity and no recording", "teleopPossible": "no", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power switch", "dataDeletion": "Nothing to delete", "accountRequired": "No", "emergencyStop": "Power switch; soft and harmless", "childPetSafety": "Extremely safe; used with vulnerable populations", "securityUpdates": "Not applicable (offline)" }, "scores": { "home": 2, "social": 7, "physical": 2, "autonomy": 7, "privacy": 9, "availability": 8, "value": 4 }, "scoreNotes": "Privacy is the highest score in the database: it collects nothing. Value reflects a six-thousand-dollar plush with clinical evidence behind it.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2001-11", "status": "research", "note": "AIST research prototypes" }, { "date": "2005-03", "status": "available", "note": "Commercial sales begin in Japan" }, { "date": "2009-10", "status": "available", "note": "US FDA Class II classification; international clinical adoption" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Paro official site", "url": "http://www.parorobots.com/", "publisher": "PARO Robots", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "Paro therapeutic pricing and status", "url": "https://robotomated.com/explore/medical/paro-therapeutic", "publisher": "Robotomated", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "Paro overview and FDA classification", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro_(robot)", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "PARO Robots (Intelligent System Co.)" }, { "slug": "pepper", "name": "Pepper", "aliases": [ "SoftBank Pepper" ], "company": "aldebaran", "country": "France / Japan", "category": "social-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "education-entertainment" ], "form": "wheeled", "announced": "2014-06", "status": "discontinued", "intendedUse": "Retail greeting, reception, education and research", "tagline": "The robot that taught the world what a social robot is, out of production since 2021 but still working lobbies and classrooms.", "overview": [ "Pepper was the first mass-produced humanoid designed to read emotions and hold conversations with the public. Launched by SoftBank and Aldebaran in June 2014, the 1.2 meter wheeled robot with a chest tablet became a global icon, greeting customers in banks, phone stores, hospitals and airports; lifetime sales are cited between 17,000 and 27,000 units depending on source.", "Production was paused in 2021 amid weak demand, and Pepper's corporate story since has been turbulent: SoftBank sold its robotics European operations to United Robotics Group in 2022 (the company reverting to the Aldebaran name), Aldebaran entered French insolvency proceedings in early 2025, and its assets, including Pepper and NAO, were bought at auction by China's Maxvision in July 2025, which operates the brand as Maxtronics.", "Thousands of Peppers remain in service, supported by distributors like RobotLAB, which pledged zero-disruption support in 2025. No new Peppers are being made, and a revival under Maxvision is unconfirmed." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "No longer sold new", "note": "Historically about $1,800-2,000 plus mandatory subscriptions in Japan; B2B pricing varied; used units circulate" }, "availability": { "status": "discontinued", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "Used market and existing fleets" ], "orderChannel": "None (support via distributors continues)", "expectedDelivery": "Not applicable", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "17,000-27,000 units sold across 70 countries before production pause", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 120, "weightKg": 28, "locomotion": "Three omnidirectional wheels", "payload": "Gesture-only arms; no useful payload", "runtime": "Up to 12 hours (retail configuration)", "charging": "Manual plug-in", "maxSpeed": "About 3 km/h", "degreesOfFreedom": "20", "hands": "Five-finger hands for gesture, not grasping strength", "face": "Fixed friendly face; expression through eyes/LEDs, voice and a 10.1 inch chest tablet", "sensors": "2 RGB cameras, depth sensor, 4 microphones, sonar, laser, bump and gyro sensors" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "NAOqi OS; emotion-reading engine; later third-party LLM integrations", "voice": "Multilingual scripted and conversational speech", "languages": "15+ languages supported over its life", "visualRecognition": "Face detection, basic emotion estimation", "memory": "Customer-deployment dependent", "processing": "Onboard with cloud services", "autonomy": "Autonomous greeting, dialogue and navigation within venues", "teleoperation": "Operator and scripting tools for venues", "updates": "Support continues via distributors; platform development effectively frozen", "developerAccess": "Yes: SDK, Choregraphe, large academic ecosystem" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Greets, answers questions, reads basic emotion", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Venue scripting; live operator optional", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "Classroom and research platform", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Teacher-programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "elder-care", "claim": "Care-home engagement programs", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Facilitated sessions; studies show mixed results", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Dances, games and photo moments", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Venue-controlled; cloud services for speech in most deployments", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Venue discretion", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Venue responsibility", "accountRequired": "B2B accounts", "emergencyStop": "Power button; low-force design", "childPetSafety": "Designed for public interaction with children; low-force compliant arms", "securityUpdates": "Distributor-supported; long-term commitment uncertain after ownership changes" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 6, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": 5, "availability": 1, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "A historically important product now scored as what it is: discontinued, supported, and still visible in the wild.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2014-06", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Unveiled by SoftBank and Aldebaran" }, { "date": "2015-06", "status": "available", "note": "Consumer launch in Japan; first 1,000 units sell out in a minute" }, { "date": "2021-06", "status": "discontinued", "note": "Production paused amid weak demand" }, { "date": "2025-07", "status": "discontinued", "note": "IP acquired by Maxvision after Aldebaran liquidation; support continues via distributors" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Aldebaran, maker of Pepper and NAO robots, put in receivership", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/aldebaran-pepper-nao-robots-receivership/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2025-02" }, { "title": "Maxvision buys core robot assets including NAO, Pepper", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/maxvision-buys-core-robot-assets-including-nao-pepper-aldebaran/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2025-07-19" }, { "title": "RobotLAB pledges zero disruption to servicing Aldebaran robots", "url": "https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/06/09/robotlab-pledges-zero-disruption-to-servicing-aldebaran-robots-despite-liquidation-of-business/91629/", "publisher": "Robotics and Automation News", "date": "2025-06-09" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Lifetime unit counts vary: about 17,000 (2025 reporting) versus 27,000 (2021 reporting)" ], "companyName": "Aldebaran (now Maxtronics)" }, { "slug": "sanctuary-phoenix", "name": "Phoenix", "aliases": [ "Sanctuary AI Phoenix" ], "company": "sanctuary-ai", "country": "Canada", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "developer-platforms" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2023-05", "status": "prototype", "intendedUse": "General-purpose work research; industrial-grade robot hands", "tagline": "The humanoid with the industry's best hands, from a company that has pivoted from full robots to the hands themselves.", "overview": [ "Phoenix is Sanctuary AI's humanoid, notable for one component above all: hydraulic hands with about 21 degrees of freedom and tactile sensitivity in the millinewton range, widely regarded as the closest thing to human hands in the industry. The eighth-generation Phoenix, revealed in December 2024, was built primarily as a data-capture platform for the company's Carbon control models.", "Sanctuary's corporate journey has been rough: founding CEO Geordie Rose was removed in late 2024 amid layoffs, and in June 2026 the board appointed former MDA chief Daniel Friedmann as CEO with an explicit strategy shift toward scaling existing technology, centering industrial-grade hands and simpler item-moving robots rather than near-term full-humanoid commercialization. Reporting through 2026 describes ongoing fundraising pressure.", "Nothing is for sale, and prior pilots (such as with Magna) predate the pivot. A June 2026 demonstration of automotive wire and connector plugging showcased the dexterity thesis that remains the company's core asset." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not sold", "note": "No commercial product; technology partnerships" }, "availability": { "status": "prototype", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [], "orderChannel": "None", "expectedDelivery": "Not announced", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None; internal research and demos", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 170, "weightKg": 70, "locomotion": "Bipedal (walking secondary to manipulation research)", "payload": "25 kg class", "runtime": "Research sessions", "charging": "Tethered and battery research configurations", "maxSpeed": "Not a focus", "degreesOfFreedom": "About 21 DoF in each hydraulic hand; body figures not emphasized", "hands": "Industry-leading hydraulic hands with about 5 millinewton tactile sensitivity", "face": "Sensor head", "sensors": "Vision suite plus dense hand tactile sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Carbon AI control system; teleoperation-driven data capture", "voice": "Not a focus", "languages": "Not applicable", "visualRecognition": "Manipulation-focused perception", "memory": "Task models", "processing": "Onboard plus lab infrastructure", "autonomy": "Task autonomy demonstrated on narrow manipulations; teleoperation central to data pipeline", "teleoperation": "Core methodology", "updates": "Research iteration", "developerAccess": "Partnerships" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Fine manipulation: wire plugging, item handling", "evidence": "controlled-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Teleoperation used heavily; autonomy on trained tasks", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not applicable (no product)", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Not applicable", "sensorKillSwitch": "Lab controlled", "dataDeletion": "Not applicable", "accountRequired": "Not applicable", "emergencyStop": "Lab e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable", "securityUpdates": "Not applicable" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 1, "physical": 5, "autonomy": 3, "privacy": null, "availability": 0, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "The hands alone would score 9; the whole-robot program is in strategic retreat.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2023-05", "status": "prototype", "note": "Phoenix Gen 6 unveiled" }, { "date": "2024-11", "status": "prototype", "note": "CEO removed; layoffs; strategy questions" }, { "date": "2024-12", "status": "prototype", "note": "Gen 8 released for data capture" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "prototype", "note": "New CEO Daniel Friedmann; pivot to scaling hands and simpler robots" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sanctuary AI appoints former MDA exec as CEO", "url": "https://betakit.com/robotics-startup-sanctuary-ai-appoints-former-mda-exec-as-ceo/", "publisher": "BetaKit", "date": "2026-06" }, { "title": "Sanctuary AI releases new generation of AI robots for data capture", "url": "https://www.sanctuary.ai/blog/sanctuary-ai-releases-new-generation-of-ai-robots-for-high-quality-data-capture", "publisher": "Sanctuary AI", "date": "2024-12" }, { "title": "Sanctuary AI fundraising efforts", "url": "https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/sanctuary-ai-humanoid-robot-fundraise-efforts/", "publisher": "The Logic", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Sanctuary AI" }, { "slug": "engineai-pm01", "name": "PM01", "aliases": [ "EngineAI PM01" ], "company": "engineai", "country": "China", "category": "developer-platforms", "secondaryCategories": [ "education-entertainment" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-12", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Commercial and education development platform", "tagline": "The $12,000 biped that landed the world's first humanoid front flip, from Shenzhen's most acrobatic robot lab.", "overview": [ "EngineAI's PM01 arrived in December 2024 at 88,000 yuan (about $12,000), a compact 1.38 meter humanoid with an unusually smooth, straight-kneed walking gait. In March 2025 it performed the first front flip by a humanoid robot, a harder trick than the backflip because the robot cannot see its landing, and EngineAI has leaned into performance ever since, including a viral demo in which the CEO kicks the robot to show its recovery.", "Units have shipped to universities and commercial buyers since 2025, with distributor listings around $12,000 to $16,000 by edition; availability in mid-2026 is inconsistent across channels, with one tracker listing it as unavailable while distributors show backorders. At CES 2026 EngineAI showed PM01 alongside its combat-oriented T800 and announced fighting-event ambitions.", "Like all Chinese developer platforms, PM01 is hardware plus SDK; its target buyers are labs, schools and service integrators, not households." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 12000, "display": "About $12,000 (88,000 yuan)", "note": "Distributor listings $12,000-16,000 by edition; availability inconsistent mid-2026" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "China; international via distributors" ], "orderChannel": "EngineAI and distributors", "expectedDelivery": "Backorder-scale at distributors", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "University and lab deliveries since 2025; volumes unpublished", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 138, "weightKg": 40, "locomotion": "Bipedal; straight-knee humanlike gait, front flips", "payload": "Light loads", "runtime": "About 2 hours class", "charging": "Swappable battery", "maxSpeed": "2 m/s class", "degreesOfFreedom": "24 (company figure)", "hands": "Simple grippers; options", "face": "Display visor", "sensors": "Depth cameras, IMU, microphone array" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "EngineAI SDK; open platform positioning", "voice": "Developer configured", "languages": "Developer configured", "visualRecognition": "Developer configured", "memory": "Developer configured", "processing": "Onboard compute", "autonomy": "Locomotion autonomy; tasks developer-built", "teleoperation": "Supported", "updates": "Firmware", "developerAccess": "Open SDK" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "education", "claim": "University and lab platform", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Developer programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "World-first front flip; performance routines", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Choreographed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Owner controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner is the operator", "sensorKillSwitch": "Owner controlled", "dataDeletion": "Owner controlled", "accountRequired": "Setup app", "emergencyStop": "Remote e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Fast machine; supervision required", "securityUpdates": "Firmware updates" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 3, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": 5, "availability": 6, "value": 7 }, "scoreNotes": "Strong hardware value; marked down for inconsistent mid-2026 availability.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-12", "status": "preorder", "note": "Launched at 88,000 yuan" }, { "date": "2025-03", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "World-first humanoid front flip; shipments to labs" }, { "date": "2026-01", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "CES 2026 showcase with combat robot T800" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "EngineAI releases PM01 humanoid for commercial, educational use", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/engineai-releases-pm01-humanoid-robot-for-commercial-educational-use/", "publisher": "The Robot Report", "date": "2024-12" }, { "title": "CES 2026: CEO-kicking combat-ready humanoid robots", "url": "https://interestingengineering.com/ces-2026/ceo-kicking-combat-ready-humanoid-robots", "publisher": "Interesting Engineering", "date": "2026-01" }, { "title": "EngineAI PM01 product page", "url": "https://en.engineai.com.cn/product-pm01.html", "publisher": "EngineAI", "date": "2026-07" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Mid-2026 availability conflicts between 'not available' trackers and backordered distributor listings" ], "companyName": "EngineAI" }, { "slug": "unitree-r1", "name": "R1", "aliases": [ "Unitree R1", "R1 AIR" ], "company": "unitree", "country": "China", "category": "developer-platforms", "secondaryCategories": [ "education-entertainment" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2025-07", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Entry-level humanoid development and education", "tagline": "The cheapest real humanoid you can buy: a cartwheeling 25-kilogram biped from $4,900.", "overview": [ "The R1 is Unitree's answer to the question nobody expected to ask this decade: what does a humanoid under $6,000 look like? Launched in July 2025 at $5,900 (with a stripped-down R1 AIR later listed from $4,900), the 1.21 meter, 25 kilogram biped walks, cartwheels and does kung-fu routines while costing less than many laptops-and-lidar research setups.", "Phased customer deliveries began around April 2026 after preorders, through the official shop and distributors across North America, Europe and Asia. Forbes called it the most affordable humanoid you can buy now. An EDU version (from about $16,000) adds compute and sensors for serious development.", "Like the G1, the R1 is a platform: lighter, cheaper, less powerful, and aimed squarely at students, hobbyist developers and labs that could never justify a G1 EDU." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 5900, "display": "$5,900 ($4,900 AIR)", "note": "EDU version from about $16,000; China-market discounts reported" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide via official shop and distributors" ], "orderChannel": "shop.unitree.com and distributors", "expectedDelivery": "In stock to weeks-scale", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Phased deliveries reported from April 2026; retail listings in stock", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 121, "weightKg": 25, "locomotion": "Bipedal; walking, cartwheels, acrobatics", "payload": "Light objects only", "runtime": "About 1 hour active", "charging": "Swappable battery", "maxSpeed": "2 m/s class", "degreesOfFreedom": "26 (20 on AIR)", "hands": "Simple grippers; optional upgrades", "face": "Sensor visor", "sensors": "Binocular camera (standard), microphone array, IMU" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Unitree SDK; developer LLM and VLA integrations", "voice": "Developer configured; built-in basics", "languages": "Developer configured", "visualRecognition": "Developer configured", "memory": "Developer configured", "processing": "Onboard compute; EDU adds Jetson-class modules", "autonomy": "Locomotion autonomy; tasks up to developer", "teleoperation": "Full remote control supported", "updates": "Firmware updates", "developerAccess": "Open SDK and simulation support" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "education", "claim": "Classroom and entry research platform", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Developer programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Acrobatics and performance routines", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Choreographed; operator control at events", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Owner controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner is the operator", "sensorKillSwitch": "Owner controlled", "dataDeletion": "Owner controlled", "accountRequired": "App account for setup", "emergencyStop": "Remote e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Lighter than G1 but still a fast machine; supervision required", "securityUpdates": "Firmware updates" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 3, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 4, "privacy": 5, "availability": 9, "value": 9 }, "scoreNotes": "The price-to-capability outlier of the entire database.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-07", "status": "preorder", "note": "Launched at $5,900" }, { "date": "2026-04", "status": "available", "note": "Phased customer deliveries begin; Forbes names it cheapest buyable humanoid" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Unitree R1 official listing", "url": "https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-r1", "publisher": "Unitree", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "The most affordable humanoid robot you can buy now", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/04/12/heres-the-most-affordable-humanoid-robot-you-can-buy-now/", "publisher": "Forbes", "date": "2026-04-12" }, { "title": "Unitree's 55-pound humanoid costs $6,000, can cartwheel", "url": "https://www.automate.org/robotics/industry-insights/unitrees-55-pound-humanoid-costs-6-000-can-cartwheel", "publisher": "A3 Automate", "date": "2025" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Unitree Robotics" }, { "slug": "hengbot-sirius", "name": "Sirius", "aliases": [ "Hengbot Sirius" ], "company": "hengbot", "country": "China", "category": "robot-pets", "secondaryCategories": [ "education-entertainment" ], "form": "pet", "announced": "2023-05", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Trainable robotic puppy for play and tinkering", "tagline": "A $1,200 crowdfunded robot puppy with LLM voice commands, adored for its character and notorious for falling over.", "overview": [ "Sirius is Hengbot's kilogram-class robotic dog, crowdfunded on Kickstarter (raising over $900,000 from 1,150+ backers) and marketed as the world's first trainable AI robotic dog. It responds to LLM-processed voice commands, performs tricks, and exposes customization tools for owners who want to program their own behaviors, with 14 degrees of freedom in a distinctly puppy-proportioned body.", "Backer units shipped and were reviewed during 2025, with direct sales via hengbot.com since. Reviews consistently praise the design and personality while criticizing walking stability: it falls often and cannot right itself, a reminder of how much engineering separates a $1,200 pet from a $2,900 aibo.", "Sirius fills the gap between desktop toys and Sony's flagship: a real legged robot pet, priced for enthusiasts, honest about being a work in progress." ], "price": { "amountUSD": 1200, "display": "About $1,200", "note": "Kickstarter pricing tiers varied; direct sales via hengbot.com" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": true, "regions": [ "Worldwide (direct online)" ], "orderChannel": "hengbot.com", "expectedDelivery": "In stock to weeks", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Kickstarter backer units shipped and reviewed in 2025; ongoing direct sales", "evidence": "owner-verified" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 27, "weightKg": 1, "locomotion": "Quadruped walking (stability criticized)", "payload": "None", "runtime": "About 40-60 minutes", "charging": "USB-C", "maxSpeed": "Puppy trot", "degreesOfFreedom": "14", "hands": "None", "face": "LED eyes; expressive ears", "sensors": "Camera, microphones, IMU, touch" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Hengbot stack with LLM voice-command integration", "voice": "Voice commands via LLM; barks in response", "languages": "English, Chinese", "visualRecognition": "Basic camera features", "memory": "Training profiles", "processing": "On-device plus app", "autonomy": "Autonomous tricks and behaviors", "teleoperation": "App remote control", "updates": "App and firmware updates", "developerAccess": "Customization tools and editor" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Tricks, play, trainable behaviors", "evidence": "independent-test", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None", "notes": "Reviewers verified play value while documenting frequent falls", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "Programmable robot for learning", "evidence": "owner-verified", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Owner programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "App-connected; camera data handled per Hengbot policy", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Owner is the operator", "sensorKillSwitch": "Power off", "dataDeletion": "App account deletion", "accountRequired": "App account", "emergencyStop": "Power button; 1 kg toy scale", "childPetSafety": "Light and safe; fragile in falls", "securityUpdates": "App updates" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 5, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 5, "privacy": 6, "availability": 8, "value": 5 }, "scoreNotes": "Charming, buyable and honestly reviewed; stability keeps physical scores modest.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2023-05", "status": "preorder", "note": "Kickstarter campaign" }, { "date": "2025-07", "status": "available", "note": "Backer shipments, reviews and direct sales" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sirius Kickstarter campaign", "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hengbot/sirius-the-worlds-most-dynamic-robotic-dog-for-endless-fun", "publisher": "Kickstarter", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "Gizmodo Sirius review", "url": "https://gizmodo.com/this-robot-dog-is-as-good-at-walking-as-i-am-at-being-a-robot-dog-2000623865", "publisher": "Gizmodo", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "Hengbot official site", "url": "https://hengbot.com/", "publisher": "Hengbot", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Hengbot" }, { "slug": "sophia", "name": "Sophia", "aliases": [ "Sophia the Robot" ], "company": "hanson-robotics", "country": "Hong Kong", "category": "realistic-androids", "secondaryCategories": [ "social-robots" ], "form": "android", "announced": "2016-03", "status": "public-demo", "intendedUse": "Media appearances, events, education and research", "tagline": "The world's most famous android and its first robot citizen, a decade into a career of appearances rather than products.", "overview": [ "Sophia, activated by Hanson Robotics in 2016, is the android non-roboticists are most likely to recognize: patented Frubber skin, 60+ facial expressions, and a media career that includes talk shows, UN panels and, in 2017, headline-grabbing Saudi citizenship. Founder David Hanson built her to explore human-robot rapport, and on that measure she succeeded beyond any robot before her.", "Sophia is not a product. Units exist in the single digits, appearances are booked through Hanson Robotics, and a 2021 announcement of mass production did not materialize at scale. Her conversational stack, groundbreaking in 2016, now trails modern LLM-driven robots, a gap noted in recent commentary and in the 2025 documentary My Robot Sophia, which chronicled the company's funding struggles.", "She remains actively working: a November 2025 partnership had Sophia leading guided meditation with students at USC's School of Cinematic Arts." ], "realityCheck": [ "Sophia's conversations blend scripted material, retrieval and generative responses, with human operators curating many public appearances. Critics have long argued her media persona overstated AI progress; Hanson has framed her as a platform and artwork. Both can be true. Treat any Sophia 'interview' as a produced performance unless the format proves otherwise." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not for sale", "note": "Appearance bookings only; the related Little Sophia educational toy was offered around $149 on preorder" }, "availability": { "status": "public-demo", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "Event bookings worldwide" ], "orderChannel": "None", "expectedDelivery": "Not applicable", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "No commercial deliveries; a handful of units operated by or with Hanson Robotics", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 167, "weightKg": 20, "locomotion": "Stationary or wheeled base; walking shown only in research collaborations", "payload": "None", "runtime": "Mains or battery sessions", "charging": "Mains", "maxSpeed": "Not applicable", "degreesOfFreedom": "About 74 in full configuration (company figures)", "hands": "Articulated hands for gesture", "face": "Frubber skin, 60+ expressions, camera eyes; the defining feature", "sensors": "Eye cameras, chest 3D sensor, microphones" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "Hanson AI stack blending scripted dialogue, chatbot engines and LLM integrations; OpenCog research lineage", "voice": "Conversational speech with expressive face sync", "languages": "English primarily", "visualRecognition": "Face tracking and recognition", "memory": "Session and show dependent", "processing": "Local plus cloud", "autonomy": "Autonomous conversation possible; public appearances typically curated", "teleoperation": "Operator curation common in appearances", "updates": "Ongoing platform work", "developerAccess": "Research collaborations only" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Celebrity-grade interviews and panel appearances", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Operator curation and scripting common; extent varies by event", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Global media and event star", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Produced appearances", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "University programs, including 2025 USC meditation sessions", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Facilitated", "lastVerified": "2025-11" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Event-production controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Rarely disclosed at events", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Not applicable", "accountRequired": "Not applicable", "emergencyStop": "Operator controlled", "childPetSafety": "Supervised appearances only", "securityUpdates": "Not applicable" }, "scores": { "home": 0, "social": 7, "physical": 3, "autonomy": 3, "privacy": null, "availability": 1, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Social score honors the expression engineering that made the category; autonomy reflects a decade of curated performance.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2016-03", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Public debut at SXSW" }, { "date": "2017-10", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Saudi citizenship announcement" }, { "date": "2021-01", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Mass production announced; did not materialize at scale" }, { "date": "2025-11", "status": "public-demo", "note": "USC meditation partnership; documentary released earlier in 2025" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Sophia leads meditation at USC", "url": "https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/11/21/sophia-the-robot-meditates-with-students-at-the-usc-school-of-cinematic-arts/", "publisher": "USC Annenberg Media", "date": "2025-11-21" }, { "title": "My Robot Sophia documentary coverage", "url": "https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/05/29/my-robot-sophia", "publisher": "WBUR", "date": "2025-05-29" }, { "title": "Hanson Robotics Sophia page", "url": "https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/", "publisher": "Hanson Robotics", "date": "2026-07" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "companyName": "Hanson Robotics" }, { "slug": "ubtech-walker-c1", "name": "Walker C1", "aliases": [ "UBTech Walker C1" ], "company": "ubtech", "country": "China", "category": "home-humanoids", "secondaryCategories": [ "social-robots" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2026-06", "status": "public-demo", "intendedUse": "Consumer companion and home assistant (stated)", "tagline": "UBTech's first consumer-facing humanoid of the new era, riding the Walker S2's industrial credibility toward the living room.", "overview": [ "The Walker C1 surfaced in mid-2026 as UBTech's consumer-oriented humanoid, the C standing for exactly what you think. It borrows the Walker S2's engineering lineage, the industrial sibling in mass delivery since late 2025, and points it at companionship and household roles.", "Details remain thin: no published price, no order channel and no delivery date. UBTech's humanoid revenue and 10,000-unit 2026 delivery target are anchored by industrial and enterprise sales; the C1 is the company's stated bet that the consumer market comes next.", "Until specifications and a sales channel appear, the C1 sits at public-demonstration status, and its profile here will grow as facts do." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Not announced" }, "availability": { "status": "public-demo", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China (expected first)" ], "orderChannel": "None yet", "expectedDelivery": "Not announced", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "None; debut demonstrations only", "evidence": "not-demonstrated" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": null, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "Not disclosed", "runtime": "Not disclosed", "charging": "Not disclosed", "maxSpeed": "Not disclosed", "degreesOfFreedom": "Not disclosed", "hands": "Not disclosed", "face": "Consumer-styled head; details unpublished", "sensors": "Not disclosed" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "UBTech BrainNet lineage expected; unconfirmed", "voice": "Conversational features expected; unconfirmed", "languages": "Chinese expected", "visualRecognition": "Not disclosed", "memory": "Not disclosed", "processing": "Not disclosed", "autonomy": "Not demonstrated publicly in depth", "teleoperation": "Not disclosed", "updates": "Not disclosed", "developerAccess": "Not disclosed" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Companion conversation", "evidence": "manufacturer-claim", "autonomy": "unknown", "humanIntervention": "Not disclosed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Not disclosed", "teleopPossible": "unknown", "teleopDisclosure": "Not disclosed", "sensorKillSwitch": "Not disclosed", "dataDeletion": "Not disclosed", "accountRequired": "Not disclosed", "emergencyStop": "Not disclosed", "childPetSafety": "Not disclosed", "securityUpdates": "Not disclosed" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 3, "physical": 4, "autonomy": 2, "privacy": null, "availability": 1, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Scored on what has been shown, which is very little; the S2 lineage earns it the benefit of attention, not of the doubt.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2026-06", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Walker C1 debuts as UBTech's consumer humanoid" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "UBTech 2025 sales and consumer plans", "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3573683700078727", "publisher": "36Kr", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Nearly everything: specifications, pricing and timeline are unannounced" ], "companyName": "UBTech Robotics" }, { "slug": "ubtech-walker-s2", "name": "Walker S2", "aliases": [ "UBTech Walker S2" ], "company": "ubtech", "country": "China", "category": "industrial-humanoids", "form": "biped", "announced": "2025-07", "status": "limited-delivery", "intendedUse": "Factory and logistics work in Chinese industry", "tagline": "The first humanoid that swaps its own battery, in mass delivery with a nine-figure order backlog in China.", "overview": [ "Walker S2 is UBTech's industrial humanoid and China's volume leader in factory deployments. Its signature feature is a world first: fully autonomous battery hot-swapping, with the robot exchanging its own dual batteries in about three minutes for near-continuous operation. Mass production and paid deliveries began in mid-November 2025 with launch orders exceeding 800 million yuan.", "UBTech, listed in Hong Kong, delivered roughly 1,000 humanoids across its lines in 2025 (about 1.3 billion yuan in product sales) to customers including automakers and electronics manufacturers, with a reported backlog around 1.4 billion yuan by June 2026 and a 2026 target of 10,000 humanoid deliveries. The Walker line has worked in BYD, Foxconn and other plants since earlier generations.", "Per-unit pricing has never been published; sales are enterprise quotes. A consumer-oriented sibling, Walker C1, began appearing in mid-2026 as UBTech tests the companion market." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Enterprise quotes only", "note": "Launch orders exceeded 800M yuan; no per-unit price published" }, "availability": { "status": "limited-delivery", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China; export deals reported" ], "orderChannel": "Enterprise sales", "expectedDelivery": "In mass production; 2026 target of 10,000 humanoids company-wide", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "Mass production and delivery since November 2025; about 1,000 UBTech humanoids delivered in 2025; publicly traded company reporting", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 176, "weightKg": null, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking", "payload": "Industrial handling loads; figures configuration-dependent", "runtime": "Near-continuous via 3-minute autonomous battery hot-swap", "charging": "Dual swappable batteries plus dock", "maxSpeed": "Factory walking speeds", "degreesOfFreedom": "52 (company figure)", "hands": "Dexterous hands for industrial tasks", "face": "Sensor head with light signaling", "sensors": "Multi-camera vision, lidar, force sensing" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "UBTech BrainNet swarm intelligence framework and in-house models", "voice": "Not a focus", "languages": "Chinese, English interfaces", "visualRecognition": "Industrial part and fixture recognition", "memory": "Fleet task orchestration", "processing": "Onboard with factory network coordination", "autonomy": "Sorting, quality inspection, material transport in live plants", "teleoperation": "Supported for training and exceptions", "updates": "Fleet updates", "developerAccess": "Enterprise integration" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "cleaning", "claim": "Material handling and sorting in live factories", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Supervised fleets; exception handling", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "security", "claim": "Patrol and inspection deployments (including border-area contract)", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "mixed", "humanIntervention": "Operator oversight", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Enterprise-controlled", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Workplace protocols", "sensorKillSwitch": "Site controlled", "dataDeletion": "Contract governed", "accountRequired": "Enterprise", "emergencyStop": "Industrial e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Not applicable (industrial)", "securityUpdates": "Enterprise support" }, "scores": { "home": null, "social": 1, "physical": 8, "autonomy": 7, "privacy": null, "availability": 6, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "The battery-swap architecture and audited-company delivery numbers earn high physical and availability marks within the B2B world.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2025-07", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Walker S2 unveiled with autonomous battery swapping" }, { "date": "2025-11", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Mass production and delivery begin; 800M+ yuan in orders" }, { "date": "2026-06", "status": "limited-delivery", "note": "Backlog about 1.4B yuan; 10,000-unit 2026 target" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "UBTech Walker S2 official page", "url": "https://www.ubtrobot.com/en/humanoid/products/walker-s2", "publisher": "UBTech", "date": "2026-07" }, { "title": "Walker S2 begins mass production and delivery", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ubtech-humanoid-robot-walker-s2-begins-mass-production-and-delivery-with-orders-exceeding-800-million-yuan-302616924.html", "publisher": "PR Newswire", "date": "2025-11" }, { "title": "UBTech 2025 sales and industry reality check", "url": "https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3573683700078727", "publisher": "36Kr", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "How many of the 10,000 targeted 2026 units have shipped by mid-2026 is unpublished" ], "companyName": "UBTech Robotics" }, { "slug": "agibot-a2", "name": "Yuanzheng A2", "aliases": [ "AgiBot A2", "Zhiyuan A2" ], "company": "agibot", "country": "China", "category": "social-robots", "secondaryCategories": [ "industrial-humanoids" ], "form": "biped", "announced": "2024-08", "status": "available", "intendedUse": "Reception, exhibition, service and data-collection work", "tagline": "The interactive humanoid from China's highest-volume maker, which shipped more humanoids in 2025 than the rest of the industry's flagships combined.", "overview": [ "The Yuanzheng A2 is the interactive service flagship of AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics), the Shanghai company co-founded in 2023 by former Huawei prodigy Peng Zhihui. A2 works receptions, expos and showrooms: a full-size biped with a friendly head, dexterous hands and LLM-driven conversation in Chinese and English.", "AgiBot's distinguishing fact is volume. The company shipped more than 5,100 humanoids in 2025, roughly 39 percent global share by one analyst count, and rolled its 10,000th cumulative robot off the line in March 2026. At MWC 2026 it launched a global online store, European rental programs and distribution partnerships, making it one of the most internationally accessible Chinese humanoid vendors.", "In November 2025 an A2 set a Guinness World Record by walking 106.286 kilometers on a single journey, a stunt with a point: AgiBot wants the A2 associated with reliability rather than backflips." ], "price": { "amountUSD": null, "display": "Quote / rental (B2B)", "note": "Sold via quotes and regional distributors; European robot-as-a-service rentals from March 2026" }, "availability": { "status": "available", "consumerCanBuy": false, "regions": [ "China", "Europe (RaaS)", "Global store" ], "orderChannel": "AgiBot global store and distributors", "expectedDelivery": "In production at scale", "deliveryEvidence": { "text": "5,100+ humanoids shipped in 2025; 10,000th cumulative robot March 2026", "evidence": "commercially-deployed" } }, "physical": { "heightCm": 169, "weightKg": 69, "locomotion": "Bipedal walking (wheeled A2-W variant exists)", "payload": "Service-task loads; figures configuration-dependent", "runtime": "Hours-scale; extended by battery swap on some configurations", "charging": "Dock and swap options", "maxSpeed": "Walking record: 106.286 km continuous (Guinness, November 2025)", "degreesOfFreedom": "40+ (configuration dependent)", "hands": "Dexterous multi-finger hands", "face": "Screen-face with expressions", "sensors": "RGB-D cameras, lidar, microphone array" }, "intelligence": { "aiPlatform": "AgiBot's Genie foundation models plus partner LLMs", "voice": "Fluent Chinese and English conversation", "languages": "Chinese, English, more via config", "visualRecognition": "Person and object recognition", "memory": "Deployment configurable", "processing": "Onboard compute with cloud services", "autonomy": "Autonomous reception, patrol and interaction routines", "teleoperation": "Supported for data collection and control", "updates": "OTA platform updates", "developerAccess": "SDK and developer program; AgiBot also open-sources datasets" }, "capabilities": [ { "capability": "conversation", "claim": "Reception and guide conversations", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Deployment scripting", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "entertainment", "claim": "Expo and showroom engagement", "evidence": "commercially-deployed", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "None in routine operation", "lastVerified": "2026-07" }, { "capability": "education", "claim": "Research and developer platform", "evidence": "real-world-demo", "autonomy": "autonomous", "humanIntervention": "Developer programmed", "lastVerified": "2026-07" } ], "privacy": { "recordingStorage": "Deployment controlled; cloud services for language", "teleopPossible": "yes", "teleopDisclosure": "Deployment dependent", "sensorKillSwitch": "Operator controlled", "dataDeletion": "Customer responsibility", "accountRequired": "B2B accounts", "emergencyStop": "Hardware e-stop", "childPetSafety": "Public-space operation with safety monitoring", "securityUpdates": "Vendor supported" }, "scores": { "home": 1, "social": 6, "physical": 6, "autonomy": 6, "privacy": null, "availability": 7, "value": null }, "scoreNotes": "Availability reflects real volume shipping, unusual in this industry; consumer relevance remains limited.", "statusHistory": [ { "date": "2024-08", "status": "public-demo", "note": "Yuanzheng A2 family unveiled" }, { "date": "2025-01", "status": "available", "note": "Volume production and B2B sales scale through 2025" }, { "date": "2025-11", "status": "available", "note": "Guinness record: 106.286 km continuous walk" }, { "date": "2026-03", "status": "available", "note": "10,000th robot; global store and European RaaS launch at MWC" } ], "sources": [ { "title": "AgiBot makes its US market debut at CES 2026", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agibot-makes-its-us-market-debut-at-ces-2026-with-its-full-humanoid-robot-portfolio-302652403.html", "publisher": "PR Newswire", "date": "2026-01" }, { "title": "AgiBot Europe expansion and shipment share", "url": "https://www.robotseuropa.com/Agibot.htm", "publisher": "Robots Europa", "date": "2026" } ], "lastFactChecked": "2026-07-11", "disputed": [ "Per-model shipment splits are not published; the 5,100-unit figure covers all AgiBot humanoids" ], "companyName": "AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics)" } ] }