# 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.

Published: 2026-09-05
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Author: Geert Jan van Vlastuin, Editor, humanoid.observer
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A humanoid robot costs between $299 and $250,000, and the number in the middle is $15,000. That is the spread across the 35 humanoids in our record that carry a price at all. The mean is $36,688, pulled up by a few full-size industrial machines. What the money buys changes completely every time you add a zero, so this is a guide by band, not a list.

## Four bands, 35 prices

| Band | Machines | Cheapest | Price basis | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $1,000 | 7 | $299 | 3 official, 4 reported | Desktop robots, toys and classroom kits. |
| $1,000 to $10,000 | 7 | $1,400 | 2 official, 5 reported | The first machines that walk at waist height, and one wheeled home robot. |
| $10,000 to $50,000 | 13 | $13,000 | 2 official, 11 reported | Research bipeds and the first adult-size bodies. Where most of the market sits. |
| $50,000 and up | 8 | $63,000 | 1 official, 6 reported, 1 estimate | Full-size industrial and research platforms. Six of the eight are sold through a sales contact. |

Two things about the table. Only 8 of the 35 prices appear on the maker's own page; 26 are reported by a distributor or a journalist, one is our estimate, and seven more machines in the buy record have only a quote, so they have no number here. And 13 of the 35 prices are ranges. Across those 13, the top configuration costs a median 1.67 times the bottom one, and in ten cases at least 1.5 times. The Unitree G1 is the extreme at 5.47 times, from $13,500 to $73,900; we covered that ladder in [Unitree G1 at $13,500](/blog/unitree-g1-cheap-one-cannot-run-your-code/).

## Under $10,000: toys, kits and the first walkers

Below $1,000 nothing with a recorded height stands above 40 cm. [Reachy Mini](/robots/reachy-mini/) from [Pollen Robotics](/companies/pollen-robotics/), now part of [Hugging Face](/companies/hugging-face/), is $299 tethered or $449 wireless: an official price for a 28 cm head and torso that does not walk but runs the open Hugging Face robotics stack. [Robosen K1 Pro](/robots/robosen-k1-pro/) at $299 is the cheapest thing in the record that walks on two legs unaided, a 17-servo programmable toy sold as one. [Hiwonder TonyPi Pro](/robots/hiwonder-tonypi-pro/) at $789 is the classroom standard: a Raspberry Pi 5, 18 bus servos and an OpenCV vision course, priced on Hiwonder's own store.

From $1,000 to $10,000 the legs get serious. [Noetix Bumi](/robots/noetix-bumi/) at $1,400 (CNY 9,998) is a 94 cm, 12 kg walker on preorder in China, the cheapest humanoid from a serious maker. [Unitree R1](/robots/unitree-r1/) is the cheapest machine in the record that clears one metre: 121 cm, 25 kg, $4,900 for the locomotion research build and $5,900 for the standard version with manipulation, shipping now from [Unitree](/companies/unitree/). [Weave Isaac 1](/robots/weave-isaac-1/) at $7,999, or $449 a month with a $250 deposit, is the cheapest home robot with a delivery date (California, autumn 2026). It is 167 cm tall, folds laundry and resets rooms, and it is cheap because it rolls rather than walks. [Weave](/companies/weave-robotics/) says remote human operators step in for tasks it cannot finish alone.

## $10,000 to $50,000: where adult height begins

Thirteen of the 35 prices sit here, and 11 of those 13 are reported rather than official. The [Unitree G1](/robots/unitree-g1/) at $13,500 is the anchor: 132 cm, the default research humanoid, with the caveat that the $13,500 version is closed to your own code. [NEO](/robots/1x-neo/) from [1X](/companies/1x/) at $20,000, or $499 a month, is 165 cm and the only bipedal machine of adult height in the whole record with an official price. It relies on remote operators for what it cannot yet do on its own. The cheapest full-size biped on paper is the [EngineAI SE01](/robots/engineai-se01/) at $13,000 to $20,000, but that is a reported marketplace price for an enterprise-only machine shipping from China. The [Unitree H2](/robots/unitree-h2/) at $29,900 is listed with no buy button. At the top of the band, $44,560 buys the Lite configuration of the 169 cm [AgiBot A2](/robots/agibot-yuanzheng-a2/).

## Above $50,000: a quote, not a checkout

Eight machines, and six of them are sold through a sales conversation. [Unitree H1](/robots/unitree-h1/), the 180 cm full-size machine, is $90,000 to $150,000. [UBTech Walker S2](/robots/ubtech-walker-s2/), the 176 cm factory humanoid that swaps its own battery, is $68,000 to $120,000 to buy, but [UBTech](/companies/ubtech/) also offers it at about $5,000 a month, which is how most factories take it. [Reachy 2](/robots/pollen-reachy-2/) at $70,000 to $75,000 is the one official price in the band: a fully open-source two-armed robot on a mobile base, designed for VR teleoperation, with a stationary one-arm configuration at $38,000. The $250,000 for [Digit](/robots/agility-digit/) is the only estimate in the set, a third-party figure [Agility Robotics](/companies/agility-robotics/) has not confirmed. The real offer is a lease at about $8,500 a month.

## How to read a humanoid price

Three checks, in order. Read the basis label: official means the maker put it on a page, reported means someone else did, quote means a buyer passed it on. With 26 of 35 reported, most humanoid prices you will see are second-hand. Then ask which configuration. With 13 ranges and a median spread of 1.67 times, the headline figure is usually the version without hands, compute or an open SDK. Then ask what is excluded. Of 35 records, one lists a shipping cost (the G1, $300 to $1,200), one lists a warranty (NEO, three years), two take a deposit, and four offer a monthly subscription. If a price arrives without a basis, a configuration and a delivery term, you do not have a price yet. You have a number.

## Sources

- [Humanoid robots for sale: 2026 guide](https://theresarobotforthat.com/blog/humanoid-robots-for-sale/), There's A Robot For That
- [Humanoid robot prices, 2026 guide](https://robotsourced.com/pricing/humanoid-robots/), RobotSourced
- [Unitree G1 product page](https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-g1), Unitree
- [NEO](https://www.1x.tech/neo), 1X
- [Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot](https://thenextweb.com/news/weave-robotics-isaac-1-home-robot), The Next Web
- [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
- [Reachy 2, the open-source humanoid for embodied AI](https://pollen-robotics.com/reachy-2/), Pollen Robotics