# 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. Published: 2026-09-05 Section: News Author: Geert Jan van Vlastuin, Editor, humanoid.observer Canonical: https://humanoid.observer/blog/44-you-can-order-138-you-cannot/ Licence: editorial text all rights reserved. The underlying data is CC BY 4.0 at https://humanoid.observer/data/. Cite as: humanoid.observer, https://humanoid.observer/blog/44-you-can-order-138-you-cannot/, accessed . --- The most common question we get is some version of "which of these can I actually buy?" The honest answer is short, and the reasons behind it are the more interesting story. Here is the record of 182 machines, sorted by whether money can change hands. ## The five piles | Availability | Machines | What it means | |---|---|---| | Not for sale | 78 | Research platforms, prototypes and concepts. Many are real and walking. None has an order form. | | Enterprise only | 40 | You can get one if you are a factory, a hospital chain or a logistics operator with a procurement team. There is no price, there is a sales call. | | In stock | 34 | Orderable now, from a store page, a distributor or a marketplace. | | Preorder | 10 | A price and an order button, and a delivery date that has not arrived yet. | | Discontinued | 20 | Was for sale once. Includes some of the most famous names in the history of the field. | In stock plus preorder is 44. That is the number on our homepage, and it is the whole buyable market as of 4 September 2026. Sort the other 138 by status instead of availability and the shape is clearer. 48 are retired or discontinued: 33 retired, 15 discontinued. 25 are research platforms and 25 are prototypes, plus one concept. That leaves 39 machines that are, by their makers' account, in pilot (13), limited production (13) or commercial use (13) and still cannot be ordered by you; 33 of them sit in the enterprise-only pile, which breaks down as 13 commercial, 12 limited production, 8 pilot, 3 prototype, 3 research and 1 retired. ## Who is selling, and what | Country | On record | Orderable | In stock | Preorder | |---|---|---|---|---| | China | 65 | 31 | 28 | 3 | | United States | 44 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | Japan | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | | South Korea | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | | France | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | Poland | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Of the 44, **31 come from Chinese makers**. The United States has 44 machines on record, as many as the whole buyable market, and not one is in stock; its five orderable humanoids are all preorders. Of the other 39 American machines, 28 are not for sale, 5 are enterprise only, 6 are discontinued. China's 34 unsold machines split the other way: 18 enterprise only, 14 not for sale, 2 discontinued. Japan built 24 humanoids and sells 2. The United States builds humanoids and, with a few exceptions, does not sell them to you. China does both. The category field says what the 44 are for. 19 are research platforms, out of 69 in that category. 11 are education machines, out of 14, the only category where most of the record is for sale. All 4 platforms, meaning bodies sold for you to build on, are orderable. Then it thins out: 4 of 26 general-purpose machines, 3 of 6 home machines, 2 of 18 industrial, 1 of 20 service. None of the 19 historic, 4 entertainment or 2 logistics machines can be ordered. The humanoid you can buy is, overwhelmingly, a research or teaching body. ## What they cost, and how we know Our buy records cover 42 machines and hold 35 prices, from **$299** to **$250,000** with a median of $15,000. But 8 of those 35 prices belong to enterprise-only machines, and the $250,000 at the top is our own estimate for [Agility's Digit](/robots/agility-digit/), a retired version whose successor is rented, not sold. Restrict the count to the 44 orderable machines: 28 have a buy record, 27 have a price, and the range is $299 to $70,000 with a median of $7,999. Seven are under $1,000. Fourteen are under $10,000. Two are $50,000 or more. Sixteen orderable machines, from [AgiBot Genie G1](/robots/agibot-genie-g1/) to [Tiangong 2.0](/robots/tiangong-2/), have no price we can point at. Now the uncomfortable part. Of the 27 prices among the 44, only **8 are official**, meaning they appear on the maker's own page. **19 are reported**: the number exists because a journalist or a distributor published it, not because the maker did. Across the whole buy file it is 8 official, 26 reported, 1 estimate, and 7 records that are a quote request with no number at all. Every price on this site carries this label, because a price you cannot verify at source is a rumour with a dollar sign. Where you buy follows the same pattern. Of the 28 orderable machines with a buy record, 17 sell through the maker's own store, 7 through distributors, 3 through marketplaces, 1 through a waitlist. All 8 sales-contact records in the file belong to machines outside the 44. ## Names on both sides On the buyable side, the [Unitree G1](/robots/unitree-g1/) at $13,500 is in stock, official price, official store, often backordered; its teleoperation is partial. [NEO](/robots/1x-neo/) from [1X](/companies/1x/) is $20,000 on preorder with US deliveries stated for 2026, and its teleoperation is yes. [Reachy Mini](/robots/reachy-mini/) is $299 on preorder from [Pollen Robotics](/companies/pollen-robotics/), and the [Robosen K1 Pro](/robots/robosen-k1-pro/) is $299 in stock. Both are desktop machines. On the other side, [Tesla](/companies/tesla/)'s [Optimus V3](/robots/tesla-optimus-v3/) is a prototype with no consumer order path. [Figure 03](/robots/figure-03/) is in limited production at Figure's BotQ plant, used in partner deployments only; its teleoperation field reads no. [Boston Dynamics](/companies/boston-dynamics/)' electric [Atlas](/robots/boston-dynamics-atlas-electric/) is in pilot with Hyundai, teleoperation partial, with deliveries to select early adopters stated for 2027. And [ASIMO](/robots/asimo/), the most famous humanoid built, is discontinued: [Honda](/companies/honda/) ended development in 2018. ## Why the gap will not close quickly It is tempting to read 44 out of 182 as a market about to open. Some of it will. But the 78 "not for sale" machines are mostly not products waiting for a launch date: 24 are retired and 22 are research, and research does not become a catalogue entry. The 40 enterprise-only machines may never get a public price, because their makers have decided the buyer is a fleet operator, not a person. The realistic near-term growth is in the preorder pile, the ten machines that promised a date, five of them American. Watch whether those dates hold. On this site, a delivery date that slips moves the score, and so does one that is kept. If you are deciding whether to wait for a famous name or buy what is on the shelf: the famous names are in the 138, the shelf is 31 Chinese machines and a handful of preorders, and only eight prices can be trusted at source. We will run this count again when the record changes. The data behind every number is downloadable, under CC BY 4.0, from the data page. ## Sources - [Unitree G1 product page](https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-g1), Unitree - [NEO](https://www.1x.tech/neo), 1X Technologies - [Hugging Face's open-source desktop Pollen robot starts at $299](https://www.automate.org/robotics/industry-insights/hugging-faces-open-source-desktop-pollen-robot-starts-at-299), Association for Advancing Automation - [Robosen K1 series programmable robots](https://us.robosen.com/collections/k1-series), Robosen - [Tesla AI and Robotics](https://www.tesla.com/AI), Tesla - [Introducing Figure 03](https://www.figure.ai/news/introducing-figure-03), Figure AI