Humanoid Robot Makers

1X builds NEO for household chores, including putting away dishes and helping with everyday routines. The robot has a soft outer body, covered joints and a washable suit. 1X lists a weight of 66 pounds, about 30 kilograms, and a four-hour runtime in its published hardware specifications. Owners can speak to it or use an app to schedule chores and monitor it remotely, according to the NEO order page.

The company advertises ownership for $20,000 through its Early Access programme, with priority US deliveries scheduled for 2026. A $499 monthly subscription is planned to ship later. Reservations require a refundable $200 deposit, and the ownership package includes a three-year warranty and premium support.

Early owners should expect basic autonomy at arrival. For unfamiliar or complex chores, scheduled Expert Mode allows a 1X employee to supervise the robot remotely while it learns the task. That human assistance is part of the proposed service, and reserving a NEO does not mean every advertised chore will work independently on delivery.

AgiBot builds humanoids for performance, interaction and development, with A2 Ultra, A2 Lite, X1 and X2 among its models. Its open source X1 gives developers a smaller platform with a quoted two-hour runtime. The larger A2 Ultra specifications list about two kilograms of arm load capacity and support for swappable batteries.

Agile Robots develops Agile ONE for factories, where it is designed to handle objects and move between workstations. Its hands use modular fingers with force and tactile sensors; cameras, lidar and speech recognition support navigation and interaction. The company quotes a walking speed of two metres per second and trains the robot using factory data, simulation and teleoperation.

The supplier also has a wider automation business: it owns all of idealworks, the former BMW Group spinout behind the iw.hub mobile robot and AnyFleet software. Those products sit alongside Agile ONE in its industrial portfolio; the acquisition announcement's BMW deployments concern iw.hub robots.

Agility Robotics sells Digit and Arc for material handling in warehouses and factories. Digit does the physical work; Arc manages robot fleets and connects them with customer operations. The company's deployment process includes assessing a workflow, validating it on site and supporting ongoing operation. Digit is assembled in Salem, Oregon, where Agility runs its RoboFab factory. The company says its robots have accumulated 65,000 hours of real production experience across commercial operations and customer programmes.

GXO uses Digit under a multiyear service agreement. Agility says the robots have moved more than 100,000 totes at GXO's Georgia facility, transferring containers onto conveyors alongside existing automation. An expansion to North Carolina and Tennessee is scheduled for early 2027, initially using Digit 4. The sites are expected to migrate to Digit 5 when that model becomes commercially available.

The newer Digit 5 remains in development, with specifications and some safety features still subject to change. Agility's planned Churchill Capital XI merger is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, after which the combined company expects to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT.

Apptronik develops Apollo for physical work in manufacturing, warehouses and logistics. Its modular platform has bipedal and wheeled mobility options. Target jobs include moving materials, picking and packing goods, inspection, and keeping production lines supplied. Voice interaction, visual cues and status displays are intended to help staff understand what the robot is doing.

The company names Mercedes-Benz, GXO and Jabil among its partners. Its commercial programme includes pilot deployments, with funding directed toward more robot production, training facilities and data collection. Apptronik also describes retail inventory and replenishment as applications, while hospitals, eldercare and homes sit further along its proposed development path on the Apollo platform overview.

A February 2026 extension raised $520 million, taking its total Series A above $935 million. Investors in the extension included Google, Mercedes-Benz, B Capital and PEAK6, alongside AT&T Ventures, John Deere and Qatar Investment Authority. Apptronik said the money would support production and expansion of its commercial and pilot deployment network.

EngineAI builds SE01, PM01 and T800 humanoids. It presented the full-size T800 and lighter PM01 at CES in January 2026, showing coordinated movement and object handling. The company invites developers and industrial partners to discuss applications and purchases; the CES announcement describes demonstrations and potential collaborations rather than named customer installations.

Figure AI builds Figure 03 and Helix for household and industrial work. The Figure 03 product page presents laundry, cleaning and dishwashing as target chores, and quotes a five-hour runtime, 20-kilogram payload and 61-kilogram body weight. Those are manufacturer specifications. The product is designed to take spoken requests and move through homes with stairs and tight spaces, according to the Figure 03 product description.

Its factory programme includes Figure 03 at BMW, where the company demonstrated parts sequencing and moving a wheeled cart at the Spartanburg plant. This followed an earlier Figure 02 deployment that the company says contributed to assembling 30,000 cars. The newer demonstration combines picking and placing parts with stepping and repositioning the robot's whole body.

For home tasks, Figure's September 2026 Helix 2.5 evaluation covered room tidying, towel folding and bed making across 30 previously unseen homes. The company reported 56% success in its comparison of models pretrained on its Index dataset, versus 9% without that pretraining. The evaluation used defined task criteria, and any trial requiring human intervention for safety counted as a failure.

Foundation Future Industries develops Phantom for industrial work, including manufacturing and defence environments. Its published specifications describe a robot 1.8 metres tall and weighing 80 kilograms, with 29 degrees of freedom and a speed of 1.7 metres per second. The company's walking and handling videos show its development work, including a heavy payload demonstration.

Generative Bionics builds humanoid platforms in Italy. Its Gene.01 industrial robot uses distributed skin sensors to detect touch, proximity, force and temperature. The company is developing a shipyard welding configuration with Fincantieri, adapting the robot's AI, exterior and end effectors to that task.

Developers can use its open source robot model for simulation and application development through Python, conda and ROS software channels. The model lets teams build and test applications before deploying physical hardware. The company says its platform can be customised for different industries by changing the AI, body design and end effectors. The company introduced Gene.01 as a functional platform in July 2026. It is backed by an $81 million seed round led by CDP Venture Capital, with AMD Ventures, Duferco, Eni Next, RoboIT and Tether participating.

Humanoid develops HMND 01 bipedal robots alongside a wheeled version. Its Alpha Bipedal prototype stands 1.79 metres tall and has interchangeable grippers or five-fingered hands. The company quotes a 15-kilogram combined arm payload and three hours of battery power, with battery swaps for continued testing and development. Its sensor package includes RGB and depth cameras, microphones and force feedback. Humanoid describes Alpha as a working prototype, with both industrial and domestic tasks among its intended applications.

Its Siemens logistics proof of concept used the wheeled Alpha. In that trial, the robot picked totes from a stack, carried them to a conveyor and placed them for human operators. Siemens and Humanoid describe the completed test as a first step in a broader partnership to validate industrial applications.

KEENON Robotics builds XMAN humanoid service robots alongside delivery and cleaning machines. Its XMAN-F1 biped greeted visitors with gestures at LEAP East 2026. In a separate demonstration, XMAN-R1 prepared coffee with NOWWA Coffee, handling cups, extraction and delivery. SoftBank Vision Fund lists KEENON as a privately held portfolio company.

Neura Robotics develops 4NE1 for industrial work and household assistance. The company describes carrying objects and responding to voice commands among its home applications, and lists manufacturing and logistics among its industrial settings. Its Gen 4 robot uses NEURON AI to process vision, sound, contact and force locally. The company says this generation is being prepared for series production. The family also includes wheeled configurations and a smaller Mini aimed at research, education and entertainment.

The company announced a financing of up to $1.4 billion in June 2026, with investors including Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, NVIDIA, Bosch and Schaeffler. It plans to use the financing for manufacturing, deployment infrastructure and its NEURA Gym robot training sites. Customers can enquire about specific models through the company.

Pudu Robotics develops D9 for object handling and customer interaction. Its bipedal humanoid stands 1.7 metres tall, weighs 65 kilograms and has 42 degrees of freedom. Pudu lists a maximum payload of 20 kilograms across both arms, or 10 kilograms for one arm, under test conditions. The hands include tactile sensing.

The product page says some features are unavailable to customers and that the sales contract determines the supplied functionality; shipped versions may differ from promotional material. Pudu announced it had raised nearly $150 million in April 2026 at a valuation above $1.5 billion.

Robotera builds the L7 bipedal humanoid alongside its own hands and control models. It targets research, manufacturing and service applications, including data collection, reception and guidance. The company also announced a financing round above $200 million in May 2026, led by SF Group, HSG and IDG Capital.