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

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 from 1X and its two earlier prototypes, NEO Beta and NEO Gamma; Isaac 1 from Weave Robotics; Clone Alpha from Clone Robotics; and Yogi from Cartwheel Robotics.

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.

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 from Pollen Robotics is $299 for a 28 centimetre head and torso with no arms and no legs. The Robosen K1 Pro is $299 for a 17-servo walking toy. The UBTech Alpha is $499, 40 centimetres and 1.6 kilograms, controlled from an app. The 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.