Ameca humanoid robot, tracked: nobody publishes a price
Ameca has no published price and no published day rate: every route on Engineered Arts' own site is Book a Demo, Get a Quote or Rent Ameca, and the 61 degrees of freedom you would be quoting for include zero legs.
Nobody publishes a price for the Ameca humanoid robot, and that includes the company that builds it.
Load the Ameca page at Engineered Arts and you get a full spec panel, a stack of capability claims, and three buttons where a number would be: Book a Demo, Get a Quote, Rent Ameca. That is the entire commercial arrangement for a machine most people have already watched a dozen videos of.
Ameca status box
- Orderable: No. No cart, no list price. Quote or rent only
- Price: none published anywhere on the maker's site
- Rental: yes, offered as "Day rentals, Week-long projects, Monthly contracts, Custom durations." No rate, deposit or minimum published
- Size: 1,870 mm tall (73.6 in), 62 kg (137.7 lbs)
- Movement: 61 actuated degrees of freedom. 27 in the head and face, 34 in the upper body. No legs on the spec sheet
- Sensing: two 8 MP cameras (one per eye), a microphone in each ear, a 4-channel chest microphone, a 20W chest speaker
- Software: Engineered Arts' Tritium suite on a custom Yocto Linux build
- Maker claims: "over 50 realistic facial expressions," communicates in "70+ languages"
- Generation on the maker's own spec panel: 2.6 (2024)
- Maker: Engineered Arts, Falmouth, Cornwall, founded 2004 by Will Jackson
What the spec sheet is telling you
Add the two movement numbers. Twenty-seven in the head and face, thirty-four in the upper body, sixty-one total: that is the whole robot, so nothing is left for legs, and the spec sheet lists none. Ameca is a very expressive upper body on a stand.
I asked Ameca by Engineered Arts, "Ameca, do you like me?" The reaction? A hilarious expression that looked like it was saying, "You're joking, right?" (@humanoidpress, 2026-07-26)
That is a design choice, and a hard one to pull off. A Unitree G1 walks on 23 degrees of freedom and costs $13,500 at the maker's own checkout. Ameca's head alone beats that whole body by four joints and cannot cross a room. I took the trade apart in the most realistic humanoid robots: above the collarbone or below it, pick one.
The AI is the other half. The Computer History Museum's Chatbots Decoded exhibit, which has one on display, describes the robot using "state-of-the-art hardware, sensors, facial recognition software, and large language models, like Open AI's GPT-4 to interact with visitors" (computerhistory.org). Wikipedia's article notes Ameca can also be driven by a human over telepresence (Ameca (robot)). Neither page says which mode a given deployment runs, and from a crowd you cannot tell.
The price question, and why searching it is a trap
"Ameca robot price" is a question the internet answers with confidence it has not earned.
The pages that rank for it quote six-figure ranges. One of them, whichhumanoid.ai, gives "From ~$130K (half-body) to $250K-$500K+ for full custom enterprise deployment" and attaches no source and no date to it. Other aggregators in the same results say $100,000 to $500,000, or GBP 130,000 to 500,000. A range that spans a factor of five is a guess wearing a number's clothes.
My rule for the tracker is the one that keeps the price ladder usable: a price needs a maker's page or a receipt. Ameca has neither, so it stays off the tracker and this page prints no figure for it. The shape of the transaction is what I can give you instead.
Renting one: the shape of the deal, minus the rate
Renting is a real product line here. Ameca, Mesmer and the three desktop robots (Ameca Desktop, Ami, Azi) are all listed as rentable (Robot Rentals).
The published process is four steps, and step one is the whole story: "Select & Quote. Choose which robot(s) you'd like to rent, for when and where. We'll confirm availability and provide a quote." Machine, dates, location. Moving a 62 kg robot and the people who run it is part of the bill, which is why no rate card exists.
The page commits to durations from a single day up to monthly contracts and custom terms, plus "complete on-site support from our team for the entire duration of your rental": "Expert installation, System configuration, Performance testing, Maintenance support."
It states no rate, no deposit, no minimum booking, no lead time and no list of countries served. The company says its robots have been active in "30+ Countries" (Engineered Arts), which is a fleet statistic rather than a service map.
| Route | Published price | What it gets you |
|---|---|---|
| Buy a full-size Ameca | None. "Get a Quote" | A 1,870 mm, 62 kg social humanoid, permanently installed |
| Rent Ameca | None. Quote per booking | Day, week, month or custom, with on-site staff |
| Buy Mesmer | None. Quote | The human-faced sibling, custom character work |
| Buy a desktop (Ameca Desktop / Ami / Azi) | None shown. "Buy Now" links to store.engineeredarts.com | 525 mm, 8.5 kg, 32 degrees of freedom, 27 of them facial |
| Book a demo | Free to ask | A meeting |
Who actually ends up with one
Museums, science centers, universities and events. The clearest documented case is a public institution that put it in writing.
On 17 April 2024, the National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University announced it "has purchased Ameca," making it "the first place in the UK to install Ameca" (thenationalrobotarium.com). Chief Operating Officer Steve Maclaren called it a chance to "take public engagement to the next level." No cost appears in the release. A publicly funded body naming the purchase but not the sum is its own small data point.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has one on display, where visitors can ask it to "tell you a story in the style of your favorite writer, or create a rap song," in eight languages. Wikipedia's appearances list adds the Museum of the Future in Dubai, the Deutsches Museum in Nuremberg, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, CES 2022 and the ITU AI for Good summit in 2023. I have not loaded a primary source for each, so treat that list as a shape rather than a ledger.
Engineered Arts' own company-wide numbers, covering all products since RoboThespian in 2004: "250+ Robots deployed globally," "200+ Unique installations," "30+ Countries." Two decades, five product lines, no per-model breakdown.
What the quote does not buy
Nothing on Ameca's spec sheet does a chore. No legs, no payload rating, no navigation, no arms rated to carry your groceries. It talks, it looks at you, and the maker counts over fifty expressions. Every deployment above is an audience-facing job: greeting, explaining, drawing a crowd to a stand.
The company map sorts humanoid makers by what they will sell you, and Engineered Arts sits in the quote-only column alongside Figure and Apptronik, for a different reason. Those two run pilots for machines meant to work. This one sells an installation, crew included, for a machine meant to be watched.
The cheaper way to get a face in the room
If the appeal is the expression rather than the height, the desktop line puts the same 27 facial degrees of freedom on a 525 mm, 8.5 kg body, 32 in total including 5 in the neck, running Tritium OS (Ami Desktop). Those pages carry a Buy Now button pointing at store.engineeredarts.com, the closest thing to retail anywhere in the lineup.
The product page still shows no price. The store blocked my automated check, and the hand check done for the realism piece found no price on it either. For desk robots that talk back and carry a number, see the desktop robots guide.
The verdict
Ameca is 61 joints of stagecraft, 27 of them above the neck, sold the way a lighting rig is sold: by quote, with a crew. It is very good at a job almost nobody at home needs done, which is holding a stranger's attention for ten minutes.
For a consumer the status line is short. You cannot buy one, you cannot price one, and what renting costs depends on your dates and your postcode. Anyone quoting you $130,000 or $500,000 off a web page is reading tea leaves.
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