Companies building humanoid robots

Best-funded pure-play humanoid startup; ended its OpenAI partnership in 2025 to run its own in-house Helix vision-language-action model.

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Hyundai-owned pioneer of dynamic legged robots; the all-electric fifth-generation Atlas is purpose-built for Hyundai factory work.

Atlas (electric) 85

Quadruped-turned-humanoid maker famous for radically low prices; the G1 is the first capable full-body bipedal humanoid available below ~$20,000.

H2 Plus 84 G1 70 Unitree H2 63 H1 62 Unitree R1 52 Unitree H1-2 40

Munich robotics unicorn known for force-sensitive robotic arms, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Xiaomi; launched its first humanoid, Agile ONE, in November 2025.

Agile ONE 81

Beijing-based embodied-AI startup incubated by Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, founded by Chen Jianyu. Develops full-stack (hardware + AI) high-performance humanoid robots and its proprietary ERA-42 end-to-end model; reached a ~RMB 10 billion (~$1.45B) valuation in 2026 after raising ~$350M across two strategic rounds.

L7 80 Q5 63 STAR1 52 M7 35

EV maker applying its automotive AI and in-house Turing chips to the Iron humanoid, targeting mass production by the end of 2026.

Iron (next-gen) 80

HKEX-listed firm whose Walker S series leads automotive-factory humanoid deployments and pioneered autonomous self-battery-swapping for 24/7 operation.

Walker S2 76 Walker S1 64 UWORLD U1 57 Walker S 48 Walker X 42 Walker C1 22

Founded by former Microsoft/OPPO/XPeng executive Eric Guo; raised nearly $736M, becoming one of China's newest robotics unicorns as of mid-2026.

AlphaBot 2 74

Austin-based humanoid company whose Apollo robot is powered by Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models and piloted with Mercedes-Benz and GXO.

Apollo 74

Early mover in China's humanoid space making the Kuavo series of full-size general-purpose humanoids; backed early by Tencent and Songhe Capital.

Kuavo-5 73 KUAVO 5-W 60 Kuavo 4Pro 56 ROBAN 2 43 Kuavo 1.0 41 AELOS Series 33

Founded by David Reger in 2019 near Stuttgart, NEURA Robotics builds 'cognitive' robots combining AI, sensing and dexterity. It raised a Series B in Jan 2025 and a landmark Series C of up to $1.4B in June 2026 (backed by Tether, Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch) at a ~$7B valuation, making it one of Europe's most valuable robotics companies. Its flagship 4NE-1 humanoid runs on the company's Neuraverse shared-learning platform.

4NE-1 73 4NE-1 Mini 32 Mipa 18

UCLA RoMeLa spin-off making proprietary BEAR proprioceptive actuators and the THEMIS line of agile research humanoids.

THEMIS V2 72

OpenAI-backed maker of NEO, a soft tendon-driven home humanoid sold to consumers but today reliant on remote human teleoperation for most chores.

NEO (Gamma) 70 EVE 62

Robotics division of Hexagon AB (Nasdaq Stockholm-listed Swedish measurement-technology group), operationally led out of Zurich; built AEON with NVIDIA, Microsoft and Swiss actuator maker maxon.

AEON 70

Embodied-AI company whose wheeled-base G1 manipulator runs autonomous retail stores across 30+ Chinese cities; raised at a $3B valuation in 2025.

Galbot G1 70 Galbot S1 66

Embodied-intelligence startup (Magic Atom Robotics) founded by former Xiaomi CyberDog engineers, making general-purpose humanoid and quadruped robots for industrial use.

MagicBot (Gen1) 68

State-backed Beijing humanoid robotics innovation center founded November 2023, developer of the Tiangong (Tien Kung) full-size electric humanoid family and the Hui Si Kai Wu (Wise KaiWu) embodied-AI platform. Tiangong Ultra won the world's first humanoid half-marathon in April 2025. Raised ~$100M in its first round from state-linked funds with strategic participation from Baidu.

Tiangong 2.0 Plus 68 Tian Yi 2.0 (Titan Yi 2.0) 64 Tiangong 3.0 58 Tiangong Ultra 42 Tiangong (Tien Kung) 40 Tiangong Omni 39 Tiangong 2.0 Lite 38

Builds the Forerunner series of low-cost industrial humanoids, positioning the K2 at roughly $20k–$30k for materials handling and inspection.

Forerunner K2 67 Forerunner K1 60

Bootstrapped Indian humanoid robotics company founded by self-taught engineer Dr. Mukesh Bangar, building the SPACEO line of enterprise humanoids in-house.

SPACEO M1 66

Israeli humanoid startup co-founded by Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua; Mobileye agreed to acquire it for $900M in January 2026.

MenteeBot V3 66

Alibaba-backed embodied-AI startup founded by robotics/HRI researcher Wang Qian, crossing a $2.8B valuation in June 2026 after four consecutive funding rounds.

Quanta X2 65 Quanta X1 Pro 36

Maker of the compact Booster T1 research/education humanoid platform, widely used by university teams for RL locomotion and RoboCup soccer research.

Booster T2 64 Booster K1 46 Booster K2 43 Booster T1 39

Rehabilitation-robotics company that expanded into general-purpose humanoids with the GR series, built on its high-torque FSA actuators.

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Maker of Digit, the first humanoid commercially deployed under a Robots-as-a-Service model; built at RoboFab, the first dedicated humanoid factory.

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Shenzhen-based commercial service-robotics company founded in 2016 by Felix Zhang (Zhang Tao), known for delivery, cleaning and hospitality robots deployed globally. In 2026 it expanded into humanoids with the semi-humanoid D7 and full-size bipedal D9, raising nearly $150M at a $1.5B valuation.

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