Humanoid Robot Companies Tracker: Who Ships What (October 2026)

We picked the eleven humanoid robots with the most commercial weight in October 2026: real production lines, paying customers, large funding rounds or a public price. We have not used any of these robots ourselves. Every status, spec and price comes from the maker's own website or announcements, company results, regulatory filings, or reputable reporting (The Robot Report, The Next Web, TechNode, GeekWire, Interesting Engineering). Each entry is dated.

We use four status labels and apply them strictly:

• On sale or shipping: anyone, or any business, can order and receive units now.
• Working for customers: robots do paid work at customer sites, usually under a lease.
• Pilots or partners only: trials with selected companies; no open order process.
• Pre-order or not for sale: a deposit at most, or nothing at all.

We list a price only where the maker publishes one. Specs appear only where the maker or a reliable source states them. Where a figure is old or reported second-hand, we say so.

It depends on what you count.

• By units shipped, China leads by a wide margin. Around 19,100 humanoids shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026, and Chinese makers accounted for more than 97% of them (IT Home figures, reported by TechNode on 11 August 2026). AgiBot shipped about 8,400 and Unitree about 5,900. UBTech sold 921 full-size humanoids in the same period.
• By proven paid work in the West, Agility leads. Digit has worked for GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Agility reports over 65,000 hours of real-world operation.
• By manufacturing scale-up in the US, Figure and Boston Dynamics stand out. Figure said in April 2026 its BotQ plant had delivered over 350 Figure 03 robots and reached one robot an hour. Boston Dynamics has been building production Atlas since January 2026, with Hyundai planning a fleet of 25,000.
• By attention, Tesla leads, but Optimus has no outside customers yet.

Keep in mind that many Chinese shipments are smaller research, education and service robots, while US makers focus on fewer, heavier industrial machines. Unit counts and capability are different races.

• United States: Tesla, Figure AI, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics (owned by Hyundai of South Korea), Walden Robotics and 1X Technologies (founded in Norway).
• China: Unitree, AgiBot, UBTech and XPeng, plus many smaller makers.
• Japan: Toyota, through its stake in Walden and its own research robots such as CUE7.

Other humanoid robot companies worth knowing include Fourier (China), Sanctuary AI (Canada), NEURA Robotics (Germany) and Engineered Arts (UK, maker of the Ameca social robot). They did not make our eleven because they had less evidence of volume production or paying customers as of October 2026.

Yes, but only a few, and none of them will do your housework out of the box.

• Anyone can order: Unitree H2 ($29,900) and Unitree's smaller R1 and G1, plus AgiBot's A2 Lite ($44,560 plus shipping and import duties). These are platforms for developers, labs and businesses.
• Pre-order: 1X NEO, the only home humanoid you can reserve, at $20,000 or $499 a month in the US. No independently confirmed customer deliveries as of early October 2026.
• Businesses only: Agility Digit, UBTech Walker S2 and Walden Robotics, usually leased or sold under contract. Boston Dynamics Atlas opens to new customers from 2027.
• Not for sale: Tesla Optimus, Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo and XPeng IRON.

No humanoid on this list is sold on Amazon by its maker. For prices and delivery details, see our buy humanoid robot guide. For homes, read humanoid robots for the home first.

Alongside its backing of Walden Robotics, Toyota showed CUE7, the latest in its line of basketball-shooting robots, in April 2026. It balances on two wheels and uses AI vision to aim its shots. CUE7 is a research showcase, not a product, so it is not one of our picks. It does show how much engineering effort Toyota is putting into balance, vision and movement, skills that feed into working robots.

Most humanoids walk on two legs, so they can in theory use stairs and step over clutter. Walden Robotics takes a different route: a humanoid upper body on a wheeled base. Its cofounder Russ Tedrake argues wheels are safer around people, fit existing factory safety rules, and leave room for bigger batteries and more computing power. The trade-off is that wheeled robots cannot climb stairs. For flat factory floors that matters less than reliability, which is why wheels are winning early production jobs.

• Tesla Optimus: whether Fremont production starts in earnest and whether Musk's late-2027 target for public sales holds.
• Agility Digit 5: early access in the first half of 2027 and general availability by the end of 2027, including the UK and EU.
• Boston Dynamics Atlas: first deliveries to customers outside Hyundai and Google DeepMind from early 2027.
• XPeng IRON: first deliveries planned for the first half of 2027, with Europe in the second half.
• 1X NEO: whether US home deliveries are confirmed, and international sales from 2027.
• Listings: Agility's SPAC deal is expected to close by the end of 2026 (Nasdaq: AGLT), and AgiBot is working towards a Hong Kong listing.
• UBTech: whether it reaches its target of 10,000 full-size humanoids for 2026.

We will update this tracker as dates are confirmed or missed. Follow the wider market in our humanoid robot hub, and see our Tesla Optimus guide for its full timeline.