Humanoid robots

A humanoid robot is built to the human template — a torso, arms, and usually legs — so it can work in spaces and with tools made for people. As of July 2026, 12 of the 54 humanoids Valumech tracks carry a manufacturer-published price, from $2,499 for the Zeroth Robotics M1 to €98,000 (≈$111,800) for the NEURA Robotics 4NE-1; the median is ≈$26,000. All 12 priced models are orderable now, but only 7 actually ship today — the rest are open pre-orders, and the other 42 humanoids have no public price at all.

Want the numbers first? The full humanoid robot price guide lists every published price, cheapest first, with the tier bands. This page is the map of the whole field — what a humanoid actually is, and how to tell 54 of them apart.

The humanoids worth knowing first

These 8 are picked by rule, not taste: the cheapest humanoids you can order today, the single priciest with a published price, then the most-searched flagships in the catalog — so the shortlist spans the market instead of clustering at the cheap end. Cards reading “Not publicly priced” are the quote-only flagships that define the category.

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ZRZeroth RoboticsM1

$2,499new

Not shipped yet

ShippingBipedal

URUnitree RoboticsR1

from $4,900new

Used $2,293–$2,803 est.

ShippingBipedal

EEngineAISA01

≈ $6,200new

Used ≈ $3,570–≈ $4,360 est.

Pre-orderBipedal

NRNEURA Robotics4NE-1

≈ $111,800new

Reserve ≈ $114 · refundable

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TTeslaOptimus

Not publicly priced

Not shipped yet

ShippingBipedal

FAFigure AI03

Not publicly priced

Awaiting market data

AnnouncedBipedal

BDBoston DynamicsAtlas

Not publicly priced

Not shipped yet

Pre-orderBipedal

1T1X TechnologiesNEO

$20,000new

Not shipped yet

Form isn’t capability

Of the 54 humanoids here, 47 walk on two legs, 6 roll on a wheeled base, and 1 — the Engineered Arts Ameca — never leaves its spot. They all sit in the same category because “humanoid” describes the job, not the chassis: a human-shaped torso and arms, meant for human spaces and human tools. A wheeled 1X Technologies EVE is still a humanoid; a wheeled delivery cart is not.

And stationary doesn’t mean simple. The Engineered Arts Ameca has 61 degrees of freedom — among the most articulated machines in the catalog — spent entirely on an expressive face and upper body rather than on walking. The 6 wheeled models trade legs for a rolling base to run longer and carry more indoors: Sanctuary AI Phoenix, PAL Robotics ARI, Hexagon AEON, Sharpa North, 1X Technologies EVE, Pudu Robotics D7. Filtering by build is useful, so long as you remember it isn’t a capability ranking.

The famous ones mostly aren’t for sale

The 12 priced humanoids stretch from a desktop learning biped — Zeroth Robotics M1 at $2,499 — up to six-figure enterprise machines like the NEURA Robotics 4NE-1 at €98,000 (≈$111,800). Somewhere in the middle sits the reference “real, affordable” humanoid most people mean.

But the household names — Tesla Optimus, Figure’s 03, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, Apptronik’s Apollo — carry no public price at all. They sell to businesses by quote or run in pilots, so the models you can read about are rarely the models you can buy. For the full cheapest-first ladder and tier bands, see the humanoid robot price guide; to sort and filter every spec, use the directory.

Dexterity is the spec buyers skip

Height and price are easy to compare; hands are what actually decide whether a humanoid can do useful work. Degrees of freedom (DoF) — the count of independently moving joints — is the rough proxy, and the spread is enormous: from the PAL Robotics ARI’s 14 up to the Clone Robotics Protoclone’s 200. Two robots at a similar price can be worlds apart here.

Treat DoF as a hint, not a verdict: it counts joints, not grip strength, sensing, or software — and 18 of the 54 humanoids don’t disclose a figure, so Valumech leaves those blank rather than guess. The most-dexterous ranking and the anatomy of a humanoid go deeper on what the joints are for.

How much of this market you can actually buy

42 of the 54 humanoids have no public price, and that’s normal for a market this young: 19 are still pre-launch announcements, and most enterprise flagships are sold business-to-business by quote after a pilot, not off a page. Only 7 humanoids both carry a published price and ship today. Rather than repeat rumored figures as fact, Valumech shows a verified price or not publicly priced — never a guess. When a maker itemizes extras (dexterous hands, compute, support), the model page says so.

The Bipedal filter covers the 47 walkers; the other 7 humanoids are wheeled or stationary, so use the plain directory to see them all.