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Explainer · 6 Sep 2026 · 9 min

Europe's humanoids: who builds them and what you can order

31 of the 182 humanoids on record come from seven European countries. Three can be ordered, two have a price, and the dearest of those is $75,000 for a robot that does not walk.

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Opinion · 6 Sep 2026 · 7 min

Figure AI: what $39 billion has shown so far

Four rounds, $1,754,000,000 raised, one named customer, no price and no unit count. The record on the most valuable humanoid company, generation by generation.

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Explainer · 6 Sep 2026 · 9 min

How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model

Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.

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Explainer · 6 Sep 2026 · 10 min

How long does a humanoid robot actually run

22 of 182 humanoids on record quote a runtime. The claims run from 1 to 8 hours with a median of 4, and of the 44 machines you can order, 4 say anything at all.

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Explainer · 6 Sep 2026 · 9 min

Humanoid races, games and fights: what the competitions proved

Our record holds 11 competition events from 1997 to 2025 and 17 machines tied to them. Six can be ordered, three at a public price, and 13 of the 17 carry a teleoperation flag of yes or partial.

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History · 6 Sep 2026 · 8 min

Japan built the first humanoids, then stopped shipping them

Japan has 24 humanoids and 12 makers in our record, more than any country except China and the United States. Two of the 24 can be ordered today, and both were first shown in 2009.

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Explainer · 6 Sep 2026 · 11 min

Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build

24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.

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Explainer · 6 Sep 2026 · 9 min

Startups, automakers, universities: who builds humanoids

108 makers, nine kinds. Startups hold 37 of the 44 humanoids you can order. Automakers, universities, big tech, conglomerates and NASA hold 45 robots between them and sell none of them.

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Explainer · 6 Sep 2026 · 9 min

Who is paying for humanoids: 69 funding rounds

Our funding record holds 69 entries. Take out the government funds, the acquisitions and the IPOs and $6.33 billion of disclosed private money remains. 37 percent of it went to companies with no robot on record.

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News · 5 Sep 2026 · 5 min

44 you can order, 138 you cannot: the gap explained

We keep a record of 182 humanoid robots. Fewer than a quarter of them will sell you one, and of those, only eight tell you the price on their own website. Here is where the rest went.

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History · 5 Sep 2026 · 4 min

A short history of the humanoid, from Elektro to the order button

Our record holds 111 dated milestones since 1939. Sixty-eight of them are from this decade, and what changed was not the walking. It was the price tag.

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Opinion · 5 Sep 2026 · 5 min

China builds, America demos: what 108 makers tell you

Chinese makers account for 65 of the 182 humanoids in our record and 31 of the 44 you can order. American makers hold the money, the research and most of the autonomy claims, and sell you almost nothing.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 4 min

How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026?

Thirty-five humanoids in our record carry a price, from $299 to $250,000 with a median of $15,000. What the money buys changes completely at each band, and so does how much you should trust the number.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 5 min

Humanoid robot stocks: which of the 108 makers are actually listed

Twenty of the 108 makers in our record have a ticker. Four of them will sell you a humanoid. The rest build cars, chips, servers and washing machines, and the pure plays are all private.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 4 min

Humanoid robots for your home: what you can actually get in 2026

Six machines in our database are built for the home: three take orders, two have a price, none has reached a customer. Here is what a deposit buys today, and what the $299 alternative does not.

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News · 5 Sep 2026 · 5 min

Tesla Optimus: what the record shows, and what you can buy

Four Optimus records, five years, no price and no order page. Here is what Tesla has shown, what it has said about money and dates, and how much of it has been checked by anyone outside Tesla.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 5 min

The $20,000 body: what NEO's price actually buys

1X is the first company to put a humanoid in front of households with a real price and a real order button. Read the small print and you are buying two things: a machine, and a person somewhere else.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 4 min

The uncanny valley, and why the newest humanoids have no face

Masahiro Mori warned in 1970 that a nearly human face repels. Of the 182 humanoids in our record, four describe one, and none of the four does physical work for a customer.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 5 min

Unitree G1 at $13,500: why the cheap one cannot run your code

The most sold humanoid in the world has a price that gets quoted everywhere and a configuration ladder that almost nobody reads. The version in the headline and the version in the lab are $30,400 apart.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 4 min

What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026

Of 182 humanoid robots on record, 117 have a human in the loop, 33 have ever worked at a customer site and none has a verified fleet count. Here is what that leaves.

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News · 5 Sep 2026 · 5 min

Where humanoids actually work: 52 deployments, counted

We track 52 humanoid deployments at named sites. Eighteen are in car plants, exactly half are live, and six say how many robots turned up. Those six add up to 41 machines.

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Explainer · 5 Sep 2026 · 4 min

Why hands are the hardest part of a humanoid

Of 182 humanoids on record, 96 describe their hands and 13 publish a degrees-of-freedom figure for them. The word dexterous appears 21 times and comes with a number once.

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