Track what is actually available, what is in pilot, and what remains a prototype.
AGIBOT · Announced 2025
Status: Available now
A smaller, showier humanoid that is genuinely mobile and already being demonstrated publicly, but its strongest current use case is events, interaction and development rather than dependable work. The ability to rent one is more meaningful than the acrobatics.
Booster Robotics · Released 2025
Status: Available now
A serious small humanoid for university teams and embodied-AI developers, not a consumer robot. Its strongest evidence is the developer ecosystem and real hands-on use; buyers should expect to write the behaviours they want rather than receive a useful autonomous assistant.
Booster Robotics · Announced 2024
Status: Available now
A genuinely credible compact humanoid for robotics labs, education and RoboCup-style research. Its strength is robustness and developer access, not household usefulness.
Fourier · Released 2024
Status: Available now
A capable research humanoid with a clearer engineering purpose than consumer proposition. It makes sense for labs exploring locomotion and manipulation; there is little reason for a household buyer to consider it.
Fourier · Released 2025
Status: Available now
A care-oriented humanoid concept with a softer, more approachable design than factory-first rivals. It is interesting for research into social and assisted-care interaction, but there is not enough deployment evidence to treat it as a proven care worker.
Fourier · Announced 2025
Status: Available now
A compact open research humanoid aimed squarely at developers. The open-source angle is useful, but it competes in a crowded research market and has far less community evidence than Unitree's established platforms.
LimX Dynamics · Released 2026
Status: Available now
Luna is best understood as a commercial performance and venue robot, not a factory worker or domestic assistant. For that narrower job the expressive design makes sense; for practical manipulation it is the wrong comparison set.
LimX Dynamics · Released 2025
Status: Available now
A well-proportioned research humanoid for labs that want a full-size platform without pretending it is ready for household work. The engineering proposition is clearer than the commercial one.
Unitree · Released 2025
Status: Available now
An impressive full-size humanoid platform for research and demonstrations, not a finished autonomous worker. The base price looks attractive for the hardware, but the standard version leaves out the developer access and hands most technical buyers actually need.
Unitree · Released 2025
Status: Available now
One of the cheapest serious humanoid platforms available, but the low headline price is for an experimental robot rather than a programmable household worker. The EDU version is the meaningful choice for developers.
1X · Released 2025
Status: Preorder
The most credible home-humanoid preorder today, but still an early-access robotics programme rather than a finished autonomous housekeeper. The hardware is genuinely interesting; the autonomy and privacy trade-offs are the reason to wait.
AGIBOT · Year not confirmed
Status: Commercial pilot
A2 Ultra is a credible enterprise humanoid project with stronger manufacturing evidence than many concept-stage rivals, but most performance claims still originate with AGIBOT. It belongs on an enterprise shortlist, not a consumer shopping list.
AGIBOT · Announced 2025
Status: Commercial pilot
G2 looks more like serious industrial equipment than a consumer humanoid, and AGIBOT has real production momentum behind it. The remaining question is not whether the hardware exists, but how consistently it performs useful tasks outside controlled deployments.
Agility Robotics · Released 2023
Status: Commercial pilot
The most commercially proven humanoid in the catalogue today. Digit has real warehouse deployment evidence and paid customer programmes, but it only makes sense where legs genuinely solve a material-flow problem better than simpler automation.
Apptronik · Released 2026
Status: Commercial pilot
One of the more credible industrial humanoid development platforms because Apptronik is building the software, data and pilot ecosystem around the robot rather than only showing demos. It is still a pilot platform, not a finished product with a normal price and delivery date.
Boston Dynamics · Released 2024
Status: Commercial pilot
Probably the strongest humanoid brand on mobility and engineering credibility, but Atlas is still an enterprise development platform rather than a normal product. We would watch it for industrial pilots, not treat it as something a buyer can order today.
DEEP Robotics · Announced 2025
Status: Commercial pilot
DR02 is interesting because DEEP Robotics is targeting harsher outdoor industrial environments rather than stage demos. The IP66 story is relevant, but most evidence for the exact model still comes from the manufacturer.
Figure · Released 2025
Status: Prototype
One of the most technically convincing humanoids in development, but not a normal product anyone should budget for yet. The hardware and autonomy demos are impressive; pricing, support and broad availability are still unresolved.
Galbot · Announced 2024
Status: Commercial pilot
One of the more interesting commercial robots because the wheeled base avoids the cost and instability of bipedal walking. Real retail and pharmacy trials matter more than humanoid styling; this is a logistics/manipulation platform, not a household robot.
Leju Robotics · Announced 2025
Status: Commercial pilot
KUAVO 5 is an ambitious full-size humanoid with an active development programme, but its evidence level is still closer to pre-release robotics than commercial equipment. Treat the specification sheet as a roadmap until customer task results appear.
NEURA Robotics · Announced 2026
Status: Preorder
One of the more ambitious European humanoids, but the evidence is still much stronger for the specification sheet than for independent deployment results. Treat reservations as access to an emerging platform, not proof of a finished general-purpose worker.
ROBOTERA · Announced 2025
Status: Commercial pilot
An athletic humanoid demonstration platform with impressive speed claims, but the evidence is still demonstration-heavy. We would track it as a robotics platform rather than treat it as deployable labour.
Sanctuary AI · Announced 2024
Status: Commercial pilot
A research and enterprise manipulation platform rather than something a customer can simply buy and put to work. The dexterous-hand story is interesting, but the commercial evidence is still about pilots and Physical AI development rather than a finished general-purpose worker.
Tesla · Released 2022
Status: Prototype
One of the highest-profile humanoid programmes, but still not a product you can buy or meaningfully compare on owner experience. The big promise is Tesla's manufacturing scale; the big weakness is the lack of independent access and proven commercial deployment.
UBTECH · Released 2025
Status: Commercial pilot
A serious industrial humanoid with better real-factory credentials than most consumer-facing robots. It is relevant to manufacturers that need long shifts and coordinated fleets, not to households.
Unitree · Released 2024
Status: Commercial pilot
A genuinely important low-cost humanoid platform for research and development, but it is not a household robot. The real value is the hardware, SDK access and developer ecosystem.
Unitree · Released 2023
Status: Stock unclear
A serious full-size humanoid development platform, not a general-purpose robot worker. For a lab or startup that needs a full-size biped with SDK access, it is one of the more accessible options; for commercial autonomous work, the evidence is still thin.
Unitree · Year not confirmed
Status: Stock unclear
An impressive high-performance humanoid platform, but still specialist robotics equipment. Independent testing shows that the hardware can be exercised seriously; it does not show that H1-2 is a safe, autonomous household worker.
Wandercraft · Announced 2025
Status: Commercial pilot
Calvin-40 has something many humanoids still lack: a named industrial trial doing a physically meaningful job. Renault's tyre-handling work is useful evidence, although it remains a pilot rather than proof of a scalable autonomous workforce.
XPENG · Announced 2025
Status: Prototype
IRON has moved beyond a pure concept because XPENG is putting the platform into manufacturing environments and has stated a production timetable. It is still too early to confuse that with a proven general-purpose humanoid business.
