Humanoid
156 robots · scored byHMX
Bipedal and wheeled-biped general-purpose robots with arms, built for work in human environments.
Humanoid Robots in 2026: the market at a glance
This page lists 156 humanoid robots from 81 companies in 20 countries, each scored 0–100 on the Humanoid Metric (HMX). China builds the most, with 82 — 53% of the category, followed by USA (19) and Japan (9).
Most of them are not products yet. Of the 156 tracked, 74 are shipping to customers (48 commercially available and 26 in limited production); the rest are 24 in paid pilot deployments, 40 prototypes, 15 research platforms and 3 retired. The difference is scored: commercial readiness is a pillar of the HMX, and a robot in a demo video does not earn it.
On autonomy, the level each has actually demonstrated rather than claimed: 37 task-autonomous, 74 supervised, 19 teleoperated and 26 at research grade. A robot is graded teleoperated when its public demonstrations are remotely driven, however they are marketed.
Only 56 of the 156 publish a price. Published prices run from $1,000 to $900,000, with a median of $29,950. Undisclosed prices are left undisclosed rather than estimated, so treat that range as what is public, not what the market charges.
How this category is scored
The Humanoid Metric (HMX), version
2.0.0. Pillars are weighted for what
actually matters to this class, and normalised against
humanoid-specific reference scales.
Category profile
Every company in this category is re-checked on the cadence above by the research agents, and every proposed change is reviewed before it reaches this page.
Top humanoid robots
Full humanoid leaderboard — all 156 with filters →| # | Robot | Company | Status | Autonomy | HMX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Figure 03 | Figure AI | commercial | task-autonomous | 87.0 |
| 2 | Optimus Gen 3 | Tesla | limited-production | supervised-autonomy | 85.1 |
| 3 | Atlas (electric) | Boston Dynamics | pilot | task-autonomous | 84.8 |
| 4 | Agile ONE | Agile Robots | pilot | task-autonomous | 81.2 |
| 5 | L7 | RobotEra (Beijing Xingdong Jiyuan / 星动纪元) | commercial | task-autonomous | 80.4 |
| 6 | Iron (next-gen) | XPeng | pilot | supervised-autonomy | 80.2 |
| 7 | NEO (Gamma) | 1X Technologies | limited-production | supervised-autonomy | 77.9 |
| 8 | AlphaBot 2 | AI2 Robotics | commercial | task-autonomous | 77.1 |
| 9 | Figure 02 | Figure AI | retired | task-autonomous | 76.6 |
| 10 | Walker S2 | UBTech Robotics | limited-production | task-autonomous | 75.5 |
Why the HMX weighs what it weighs
The published reasoning behind every pillar weight in
the Humanoid Metric, version 2.0.0.
- Autonomy (0.25) — the single biggest open problem and value driver. A teleoperated robot is a puppet; a task-autonomous one is a worker. We deliberately make autonomy the heaviest pillar and penalise teleop-only systems hard, regardless of how slick the hardware looks in a demo.
- Manipulation (0.20) — useful work in human environments is bottlenecked on hands. Dexterous, high-DoF hands with real payload separate "walks around" from "does the job".
- Mobility (0.15) — table stakes. Bipedal balance is solved enough that it no longer dominates; speed/endurance still matter for duty cycles.
- Hardware (0.15) — total DoF, actuation modernity (electric > hydraulic for serviceability/quietness), payload-to-weight efficiency, onboard compute.
- Commercial (0.15) — does it actually ship and earn revenue? Real paid pilots (BMW, GXO, Mercedes, Amazon …) beat YouTube demos.
- Ecosystem (0.10) — capital, valuation and corporate backing decide who survives to iterate. Weighted lowest because money ≠ capability, but it is a real survival signal.
Frequently asked questions
How many humanoid robots are there in 2026?
This index tracks 156 humanoid robots from 81 companies, counting only machines documented by at least two independent sources.
How many humanoid robots are commercially available?
74 of 156 are shipping to customers — 48 commercially available and 26 in limited production. A further 24 are in paid pilot deployments.
Which countries build the most humanoid robots?
China (82), USA (19), Japan (9), Germany (8) and South Korea (8).