# 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. Published: 2026-09-05 Section: Explainer Author: Geert Jan van Vlastuin, Editor, humanoid.observer Canonical: https://humanoid.observer/blog/humanoid-robots-for-your-home-what-you-can-actually-get/ 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/humanoid-robots-for-your-home-what-you-can-actually-get/, accessed . --- Of the 182 humanoids in our database, six are built for the home. Three take orders today, two have a price, and none has been delivered to a paying household as of 4 September 2026. That is the entire consumer humanoid market. Everything else sold as a "home robot" is a prototype you cannot buy or a desktop machine that will not lift a cup. ## Six machines, three order pages, two prices The six are [NEO](/robots/1x-neo/) from [1X](/companies/1x/) and its two earlier prototypes, [NEO Beta](/robots/1x-neo-beta/) and [NEO Gamma](/robots/1x-neo-gamma/); [Isaac 1](/robots/weave-isaac-1/) from [Weave Robotics](/companies/weave-robotics/); [Clone Alpha](/robots/clone-alpha/) from [Clone Robotics](/companies/clone-robotics/); and [Yogi](/robots/cartwheel-yogi/) from [Cartwheel Robotics](/companies/cartwheel-robotics/). | Machine | Price | Orderable | Delivery stated | Teleoperation | |---|---|---|---|---| | NEO (1X) | $20,000 or $499 a month, $200 deposit | Preorder, US only | US deliveries to start in 2026 | Yes | | Isaac 1 (Weave) | $7,999 or $449 a month, $250 deposit | Preorder, US only | California autumn 2026, wider US through 2027 | Partial | | Clone Alpha (Clone Robotics) | No public price | Preorder, 279-unit first batch | None | Unknown | | NEO Gamma (1X) | None | Not for sale | None | Partial | | NEO Beta (1X) | None | Not for sale | None | Partial | | Yogi (Cartwheel) | None | Not for sale | None | Unknown | Both priced machines ship to the United States only. And the cheaper one is not a walking humanoid: Isaac 1 is 167 centimetres of wheeled base, two arms and grippers, and Weave's own pitch is that dropping the legs is what gets the price to $7,999. NEO is the biped, 165 centimetres and about 30 kilograms, at two and a half times the money. We covered what that $20,000 includes in [The $20,000 body](/blog/the-20000-dollar-body/). Clone Alpha was announced for preorder in December 2024 with a first batch of 279 units, built on Clone's hydraulic artificial muscles. Twenty-one months later there is no public price, no delivery date and no delivered unit in our record. We list it as a concept. ## What a home humanoid can do today Every record here carries an autonomy evidence field: what the machine has been seen doing with nobody driving it. Across the six home machines, one entry is filled. For NEO it reads: 1X videos show household chores; reviewers at launch found most tasks were teleoperated. For the other five, Isaac 1 included, the field is empty. We have found no independent account of any of them working unattended. Teleoperation is the pattern. NEO is marked yes: 1X staff can drive the robot remotely, with the owner's permission, for tasks it cannot do alone. Isaac 1 is marked partial: Weave has said openly that remote operators help finish tasks the robot cannot complete. Clone Alpha is unknown. Of the three you can order, none is documented doing housework alone. What you can order in 2026 is a body in your house, a task list (laundry, beds and tidying from Weave, household chores from 1X), and a person somewhere else who steps in when the software stalls. Both companies say so themselves. It still means a launch video is not evidence of what the machine will do in your kitchen. ## Will it arrive when they say? Neither seller gives a month. 1X says US deliveries start in 2026, which as of today leaves under four months of that year. Weave says California in autumn 2026 and the wider United States through 2027, a season and a region rather than a date. Clone Robotics gives nothing. Across the database, 34 machines are in stock and 10 are on preorder; every orderable home machine sits in the second pile. Both deposits are refundable, $200 at 1X and $250 at Weave, so waiting costs little. Planning around a date does. ## The $299 alternative will not do chores Search for a home robot in a shop and you land elsewhere: seven machines in our database cost $1,000 or less and can be ordered now, and all seven are filed under education. The [Reachy Mini](/robots/reachy-mini/) from [Pollen Robotics](/companies/pollen-robotics/) is $299 for a 28 centimetre head and torso with no arms and no legs. The [Robosen K1 Pro](/robots/robosen-k1-pro/) is $299 for a 17-servo walking toy. The [UBTech Alpha](/robots/ubtech-alpha/) is $499, 40 centimetres and 1.6 kilograms, controlled from an app. The [K-Scale Z-Bot](/robots/k-scale-z-bot/) is $999 on preorder, an open-source developer kit. None of the seven has a payload figure in our record, because none is built to carry anything. They are fine machines for what they are: a child's first robot, a desk toy that dances, a cheap door into the open robotics software stack. Buy one expecting it to unload the dishwasher and you have bought the wrong category. The shop will not tell you. ## Three questions before you put down a deposit First, how many minutes of an ordinary day does the robot work with no human on the other end, and where does that human sit when there is one. Ask for a number, not a video. Second, what covers the machine after the deposit: 1X lists a three-year warranty on the Early Access purchase, while our record for Isaac 1 carries no warranty term at all, so ask Weave for one in writing. Third, which month and which state. "2026" and "autumn" are the only dates the two orderable machines carry, and this industry has a record of slipping. Plain answers to all three make $200 or $250 a reasonable bet on a category that will exist. Vague answers mean the money is better kept until it does. ## Sources - [NEO](https://www.1x.tech/neo), 1X Technologies - [Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot](https://thenextweb.com/news/weave-robotics-isaac-1-home-robot), The Next Web - [Weave Isaac 1 robot: the $7,999 robot that folds your laundry](https://the-gadgeteer.com/2026/07/31/weave-isaac-1-robot-folds-laundry/), The Gadgeteer - [Weave Robotics](https://www.weaverobotics.com/), Weave Robotics - [Clone Robotics](https://clonerobotics.com/), Clone Robotics - [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 - [Humanoid robots for sale: 2026 guide](https://theresarobotforthat.com/blog/humanoid-robots-for-sale/), There's A Robot For That