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

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

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

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, 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 to Tiangong 2.0, 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 at $13,500 is in stock, official price, official store, often backordered; its teleoperation is partial. NEO from 1X is $20,000 on preorder with US deliveries stated for 2026, and its teleoperation is yes. Reachy Mini is $299 on preorder from Pollen Robotics, and the Robosen K1 Pro is $299 in stock. Both are desktop machines.

On the other side, Tesla’s Optimus V3 is a prototype with no consumer order path. Figure 03 is in limited production at Figure’s BotQ plant, used in partner deployments only; its teleoperation field reads no. Boston Dynamics’ electric Atlas is in pilot with Hyundai, teleoperation partial, with deliveries to select early adopters stated for 2027. And ASIMO, the most famous humanoid built, is discontinued: 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.