20 Humanoid Robots You Can Actually Buy in 2026

For most of the last decade, asking where to buy a humanoid robot produced a list of research prototypes, conference demonstrations and company videos. In 2026, the answer is more concrete. Several manufacturers operate public online stores. Others accept deposits for scheduled delivery. Established robotics suppliers continue to sell research platforms through quotations and institutional purchase orders.

That does not mean twenty robotic workers are ready to replace a person in a home or factory. The machines below span four very different categories: full-size biped development platforms, compact walking robots, wheeled or stationary humanoids built for manipulation and social robots designed around faces, speech and human interaction. Their commercial availability is real. Their autonomy, payload, durability and support requirements vary sharply.

The prices and order status in this guide were checked on July 11, 2026. Public prices generally exclude shipping, local tax, customs duties, optional hands, additional batteries, service contracts and developer configurations. Quote-only systems can cost substantially more than their visible base hardware suggests once training, integration and support are included.

A robot qualifies here when its manufacturer provides one of three active purchase paths: direct checkout with a displayed price, a paid reservation tied to a delivery program or a request-a-quote channel for the named production platform. A contact form alone is not enough when the machine is still described as a prototype. This is why high-profile systems such as Tesla Optimus, Figure, Apptronik Apollo and Boston Dynamics Atlas are absent: public demonstrations do not create a buyer-accessible product.

Commercial availability also says nothing by itself about autonomous capability. Some platforms arrive as programmable machines with SDK access. Some are primarily teleoperated. Some perform scripted social interactions. The 1X NEO early-access program explicitly combines basic autonomy with scheduled remote expert assistance for tasks the robot cannot yet complete. Buyers should treat control mode, safety envelope and support model as core specifications, not footnotes.

Unitree lists the R1 from $4,900 through its official store. The robot stands about 123 centimeters tall, weighs roughly 29 kilograms and is offered with 20 to 26 degrees of freedom depending on configuration. Unitree describes open joint and sensor interfaces, simulation support and a multimodal speech-and-vision model, positioning the R1 as an entry platform for developers rather than a sealed consumer appliance.

The attractive base price needs careful reading. Compute, hands, development access and end-effectors can differ across versions. A team buying the R1 for locomotion research may need a different configuration from a team collecting manipulation data. The practical purchase step is to obtain a written configuration sheet showing exactly which actuators, sensors, compute module, battery and software permissions are included.

The Unitree G1 is listed at $13,500 in the manufacturer’s online store. At about 132 centimeters tall and roughly 35 kilograms, it is compact enough for laboratories that cannot safely manage a 70-kilogram full-size machine. The platform is sold in several configurations, with degrees of freedom, hands and onboard computing changing between the standard and EDU-oriented versions.

G1 has become visible in reinforcement-learning, teleoperation and manipulation work because the hardware can be purchased rather than accessed only through a partnership. Buyers should still separate mobility demonstrations from delivered software. A robot capable of dynamic movement is not automatically supplied with autonomous task policies, a production safety case or reliable grasping for unstructured objects.

Unitree lists the 180-centimeter H2 at $29,900. The official specification describes 31 degrees of freedom and joint torque reaching 360 newton-meters. The store also states that only the EDU version supports secondary development, so a buyer intending to run custom controllers or embodied-AI policies should not assume the base listing provides the required access.

H2 is a much larger operational commitment than R1 or G1. Its mass, torque and reach increase the consequences of a fall or control error. A serious purchase plan needs a protected test area, lifting and transport procedures, spare-part availability, emergency-stop architecture and staff who understand high-power legged systems.

The Unitree store continues to list H1 at $90,000 while instructing buyers to contact the company for the real price. H1 stands around 180 centimeters, weighs about 47 kilograms and uses a replaceable 864-watt-hour battery. Unitree publishes a 3.3-meter-per-second running figure for the platform, although delivered control packages and operating limits depend on the purchased configuration.

H1 remains relevant for teams that need a mature Unitree full-size research base and existing developer resources. It is less compelling as an impulse purchase. The quoted package must identify whether arms, hands, perception sensors, high-level control software, training and support are included.

Booster Robotics advertises K1 from $5,999 and provides a Buy Now path. The robot stands about 95 centimeters, weighs 19.5 kilograms and uses 22 degrees of freedom. Compute options are listed at 48, 117 or 200 TOPS, giving universities and student teams a way to match onboard AI capacity to budget.

K1 is closely associated with RoboCup and embodied-AI education. That matters because repeated falls, rapid repairs and software access are normal requirements in robot soccer and locomotion research. Its size reduces handling risk compared with a full-size humanoid, but it still requires a clear fall zone and disciplined battery and actuator maintenance.

Booster T1 is available through the manufacturer’s Buy Now flow. It is approximately 1.18 meters tall and 30 kilograms, with configurations ranging from 23 degrees of freedom to 41 when seven-degree-of-freedom arms and dexterous hands are added. Booster lists up to 200 TOPS of AI compute and approximately two hours of walking time from the 10.5-amp-hour battery.

The version choice changes the robot’s role. A basic T1 can support locomotion and robot-soccer development. A manipulation program needs the appropriate arms, end-effectors, wrist sensing and cameras. Buyers should compare the complete configured quotation rather than treating the word T1 as one fixed bill of materials.

Booster T2 is presented with active Buy Now links for Professional P1, P2 and P3 configurations. The robot stands about 1.4 meters and weighs roughly 42 to 43 kilograms. All three versions use 31 body degrees of freedom, while end-effectors progress from optional hardware to a gripper and then a six-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand.

Booster specifies a maximum dual-arm payload of 10 kilograms, a walking speed of 2 meters per second and two hours of continuous walking. Those are platform specifications, not proof of autonomous handling across arbitrary tasks. The T2 makes the most sense for a lab or company prepared to build perception, planning and manipulation software around the hardware.

1X accepts a refundable $200 deposit for NEO. The Early Access ownership option is advertised at $20,000 with a three-year warranty, premium support and priority delivery. A $499-per-month subscription is also shown, with the subscription shipment scheduled later. The company states that US deliveries begin in 2026 before expansion to other markets from 2027.

NEO is the most consumer-oriented purchase on this list, but its operating model must be understood before ordering. 1X says early units arrive with basic autonomy and improve over time. For complex chores the robot does not know, customers can schedule Expert Mode, in which a 1X operator remotely supervises actions. That is a hybrid service, not unlimited independent household autonomy.

Pollen Robotics sells Reachy Mini Lite for €348.90 and the Wireless version for €436.34. Both ship as DIY kits with nine servo motors, six-degree-of-freedom head motion, a wide-angle camera, four microphones and a speaker. The Wireless model adds a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, Wi-Fi, an IMU and battery power, while the Lite model relies on an external computer over USB-C.

Reachy Mini does not walk and cannot perform household manipulation. Its value is accessible human-robot interaction, expressive motion, audio-visual applications and AI experimentation on a desk. Pollen’s store states a lead time of up to 90 days and calculates shipping, duties and tax during checkout.

Reachy 2 is available through Pollen Robotics’ Get your Reachy sales channel. The system can be ordered with one or two seven-degree-of-freedom arms and with or without an omniwheel mobile base. Each arm is rated to lift objects up to 3 kilograms. The software stack supports Python, ROS 2 Humble and a VR teleoperation application.

This is a humanoid mobile manipulator rather than a biped. That design removes walking and fall recovery from the problem and concentrates the platform on reaching, seeing and grasping. Research groups studying imitation learning or vision-language-action policies may gain more usable manipulation time from this architecture than from a legged robot that spends much of the project on locomotion.

Engineered Arts offers Ameca through a commercial quotation. The full-size robot is about 1.87 meters tall, weighs roughly 62 kilograms and provides 61 actuated degrees of freedom, including a highly articulated head. Its camera, microphone, speech and facial systems are designed to embody conversational AI for public demonstrations, research and customer-facing installations.

Ameca’s strength is expressive interaction, not bipedal work. The robot does not provide the walking and general manipulation profile suggested by many humanoid-labor videos. A buyer is purchasing a sophisticated social embodiment platform, together with the company’s Tritium software environment and support options.

Engineered Arts marks Ameca Desktop as available and provides both Buy Now and Get a Quote routes. The Gen 3 desktop unit is approximately 525 millimeters tall and has 32 degrees of freedom, 27 of them in the head. It brings Ameca’s facial motion and conversational embodiment into a format that fits on a counter or laboratory bench.

The desktop model is easier to transport and deploy than the full robot, but it is not a mobile worker. Its practical applications are AI-agent embodiment, reception, museums, exhibitions, remote presence and human-robot interaction studies where gaze and facial timing matter more than locomotion.

Ami Desktop is listed as available now with Buy Now and quotation options. Engineered Arts records a June 22, 2026 release date and a 32-degree-of-freedom desktop architecture. Ami gives customers a different face and character identity while retaining the company’s browser-based management and conversational-robot software environment.

The purchase decision between Ami, Azi and Ameca Desktop is therefore less about locomotion hardware and more about presentation, audience, voice, role design and brand fit. Organizations should evaluate the robot under the lighting, viewing distance, language model and network conditions of the actual installation.

Azi Desktop is also marked available now and carries Buy Now and Get a Quote controls on the official product page. The package includes the Gen 3 humanoid desktop robot, power equipment and quick-start documentation, with a standard one-year warranty listed in the specifications.

Azi is a social interface rather than a general-purpose manipulator. Its value depends on the quality of the connected AI, dialogue design, animation and operational support. A convincing demo can be built quickly, but a reliable public installation still needs moderation, privacy rules, fallback behavior and staff who can recover the system when speech or network services fail.

Engineered Arts offers Mesmer through Rent Mesmer and Get a Quote channels. Mesmer is built around realistic facial appearance, detailed skin and tightly controlled facial mechanics. Customers use the platform for entertainment, exhibitions, character work and installations where a specific humanlike visual identity is required.

Mesmer should not be confused with a walking industrial humanoid. It is a custom social and performance robot whose commercial value lies in appearance and interaction. Customization, artistic work, installation and content production can be as important to the total project cost as the robot hardware.

Maxtronics, the company continuing the Aldebaran humanoid line, sells NAO6 through a quotation and partner network. NAO6 stands about 58 centimeters, weighs 5.48 kilograms and has 25 degrees of freedom. Its sensors include cameras, microphones, tactile inputs, sonar and an inertial measurement unit.

NAO6 remains useful because it arrives as an established product with documentation, classroom material, support and a large research history. It is not a dexterous labor platform. The small hands, limited payload and 45-to-90-minute operating time suit interaction, teaching, rehabilitation studies and algorithm development rather than physical work.

PAL Robotics sells TALOS through a request-a-quote process. The robot stands 1.75 meters, weighs about 95 kilograms and has 32 degrees of freedom. PAL specifies a 6-kilogram payload per arm with the arm extended, joint-level torque control and a ROS-based software architecture.

TALOS is built for advanced whole-body control, manipulation and industrial research. It requires institutional infrastructure, experienced operators and a serious safety process. The purchase is closer to acquiring a laboratory system than ordering a consumer device, with configuration, training, maintenance and long-term support forming part of the decision.

ARI is offered by PAL Robotics for customer service, human-robot interaction and AI research. The robot combines an expressive head and arms with a mobile base and a touchscreen in the torso. PAL highlights person detection, speech and intent recognition and multimodal interaction, while sales are handled through direct contact with the company.

The wheeled base makes ARI suitable for smooth indoor floors without introducing biped balance. Its useful work is conversation, guidance, information delivery and interaction research. Buyers still need to define privacy, navigation boundaries, microphone use and what happens when the conversational system cannot answer a request.

ROBOTIS sells the OP3 directly through its US store for $13,764.35. The fully assembled robot is about 510 millimeters tall, weighs roughly 3.5 kilograms without its skin cover and uses 20 degrees of freedom. It includes an Intel NUC, OpenCR controller, HD camera, nine-axis inertial sensing and support for C++, ROS 2 and the DYNAMIXEL SDK.

OP3 is a compact research and competition platform, not a small domestic worker. Its scale makes it practical for gait development, RoboCup, vision and education while keeping falls manageable. The public price and detailed package list make it one of the easiest institutional purchases to budget accurately.

THORMANG3 remains in the ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL System catalogue as a full humanoid research platform. The robot is 137.5 centimeters tall, weighs 42 kilograms and has 29 degrees of freedom. Its published hardware includes two Intel NUC computers, force-torque sensors, an IMU, a camera and optional depth camera and LiDAR, with ROS and C++ development support.

Unlike OP3, THORMANG3 does not show a simple public checkout price. Buyers need to contact ROBOTIS for current quotation, production lead time, regional availability and the exact sensor package. Its architecture is mature and well documented, but the software baseline is older than newer ROS 2-first platforms, so migration work should be evaluated before purchase.

A $4,900 robot can become a much larger project once hands, compute, spare actuators, batteries, protective rigging, shipping and import duties are added. Full-size systems may need a gantry, a fall harness, floor reinforcement, secure charging, transport cases and two people for safe handling. Social robots require microphones, network services, content moderation and on-site recovery procedures.

Software access can be more important than peak torque. Confirm whether the purchase includes low-level joint control, sensor streams, simulation models, calibration tools, source code, firmware updates and permission to run custom policies. Some consumer or basic editions deliberately restrict secondary development. A cheaper closed configuration can be unusable for a research team.

Support should be priced before the robot ships. Ask where repairs occur, which parts the customer can replace, how long actuators and batteries take to arrive and whether remote diagnosis is included. A humanoid that waits three months for one proprietary joint is not an operational platform.

A locomotion group needs robust legs, open controllers and repeatable recovery after falls. A manipulation group may achieve more with Reachy 2’s stable mobile base and two seven-degree-of-freedom arms. An interaction lab can deploy NAO6 or an Engineered Arts desktop robot without managing the energy and risk of a full-size biped. A household early adopter considering NEO is buying into a continuing service and learning program rather than a finished catalogue of autonomous chores.

The strongest purchase is the machine whose limitations match the project. In 2026, buyers can finally compare real products, real quotations and real delivery programs. They still need to ignore the choreography of launch videos and examine the delivered sensors, control access, support contract and tasks the robot can repeat without an engineer standing beside it.