Humanoid Robots

How to read this table

Every value in the table above is the manufacturer's own published figure, copied from the maker's product page, spec sheet or manual. This category is unusual because most of the machines in it cannot be bought by an individual at all, so availability status carries as much weight here as any specification. A row marked as enterprise-only or announced is a real machine with real published figures and no consumer purchase path.

Prices need the same care. Several companies have stated a future target price rather than a price you can pay today; we do not record those as prices, so the price cell reads Not published and the machine's own page explains the situation instead of implying you can order one.

What the published specifications actually mean

Degrees of freedom counts the independently actuated joints, so it indicates how much of the body can move rather than how well it moves. A high count on a machine with no published payload tells you the hardware is articulated and nothing about what it can lift. Payload is the rated figure for what the arms hold, and it is usually published per arm or for the whole platform — we record the form the maker uses.

Height and weight decide where a machine can be deployed and what it takes to move it, and they are the two figures nearly every maker publishes, which makes them the most reliable basis for comparison in this category. Runtime per charge is published far less consistently, and where it is stated the operating mode behind the figure often is not.

Compute, sensors and secondary development support are what separate a research platform from a demonstration. Where a maker publishes an SDK or developer documentation, code can run on the robot rather than only its stock behaviours; where it does not, the machine is what the manufacturer shipped it as.

Nothing published in this category should be read as an autonomy claim. Demonstration videos are not specifications, and a robot with impressive published hardware can still be teleoperated in every video you have seen of it. This database records hardware figures the makers stand behind and leaves the capability claims to them.

Buying versus watching

Because purchase paths are the real dividing line in this category, availability has its own dedicated page grouping every model by whether you can buy it, preorder it, or only read about it, with prices and stated delivery timing where they exist. That is the fastest way to separate the fifteen machines here into ones you could own and ones you can only follow.