Home robots for sale right now: the 13 you can actually check out
Thirteen home robots had a working checkout on 2026-08-07, priced $139.99 to $4,900, and the two most searched machines in the category (Tesla Optimus and Figure 03) still have no way to hand anyone money.
I went through every home robot this site tracks and tried to reach a checkout. Thirteen of them will take your money today. The cheapest is $139.99 and the most expensive with a normal cart button is $4,900. Nine more are listed, advertised, reviewed, photographed and called a home robot for sale, and cannot currently be bought: out of stock, backordered, waitlisted, or sold only through a sales email.
Everything below comes from the maker's own store unless the row says otherwise.
The 13 with a working checkout
| Robot | What it actually is | Price (2026-08-07) | Ongoing cost | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eilik | Desk companion, offline | $139.99 (from $149.99) | none | In stock |
| Miko Mini | Kids' learning companion | $149 (from $199) | optional | Available |
| Joy for All cat | Comfort pet, no app | $159.99 | none | 2 of 3 colors in stock |
| Vector 2.0 | Desk companion, cloud | $199.99 (to $249.99) | $11.99/mo or $99.99/yr | Ships in 1 business day |
| EMO | Desk companion | $279 (White $289) | none listed | Listed |
| Miko 3 | Kids' learning companion | $299 | Miko Max $99/yr or $14.99/mo | Available |
| Moflin | Furry pet, no face | $429 at US launch | none listed | Verify in cart |
| Loona | Petbot with a screen face | $499 (from $529) | none | Dispatch in 3 business days |
| MarsCat | Bionic cat | $1,199 (from $1,399) | none | Listed available |
| Unitree Go2 Air | Quadruped platform | $1,600 | none | Ships in about a month |
| Sony aibo | Robot dog, US only | above $3,000 | $300/yr after 3 included years | Shipping |
| Unitree R1 | Biped platform | $4,900 | none | Shipping, one variant backordered |
| ElliQ | Eldercare companion | $249 + $39 to $59/mo | the monthly is the product | Shipping (US) |
Four things about that table are worth more than the prices.
The cheap end of it is desk companions, comfort pets and one eldercare device. Nothing under $500 picks anything up, and none of them pretend to.
The two Unitree entries are developer hardware wearing an animal or a person shape. A Go2 or an R1 arrives and balances. What it does after that is code you write. Shipping adds $399 to $1,000 on a Go2 and $300 to $1,200 on an R1, and the buyer clears customs, so the landed cost sits well above the sticker. The sticker itself does resolve into a crate, which is more than the famous names below can say.
Unboxing a Unitree R1 humanoid robot. Cost: $4,900 on Unitree's Website. (@ShangguanJiewen, 2026-05-17)
Two rows carry an asterisk I cannot remove from here. Casio's store blocks automated checks, so $429 is the Moflin launch price rather than a current one. Sony does not publish an aibo figure I can pull, and AFP's June 2026 report of more than $3,000 in the US is the best-sourced number available. Check both in the cart before you believe them.
One row is a lease rather than a sale. ElliQ's $249 is a lease initiation fee, so the monthly is the product and not an add-on you can drop.
The nine you cannot buy today
These are the ones "for sale" gets used loosely about.
- WowWee Dog-E, $75.99 at Target, out of stock there. Retail-only distribution means availability moves store to store with no maker checkout to fall back on.
- Joy for All Golden Pup, $179.99, showing "Out of Stock - Buy on Amazon" on the maker's own site. The cats are fine. The dog goes through a third party.
- Enabot EBO X, $799 after a 20 percent cut from $999, and the button on Enabot's store says "Out of stocks."
- Unitree G1, $13,500, backordered, with Unitree's page telling anyone who wants to program it to buy the EDU edition through sales instead.
- 1X NEO, $20,000 outright or $499 a month. What you can complete today is a $200 refundable deposit against "US Deliveries start 2026." A deposit is not a purchase, and no independently verified consumer delivery exists yet.
- Tombot Jennie, waitlist only, with pricing promised closer to shipping. The $1,500 figure floating around press coverage is a company estimate, not a listed price.
- PARO, the therapeutic seal, sold through distributors and certification channels. Price on request, no cart, and that is by design.
- Tesla Optimus and Figure 03, the two machines that supply most of the imagery people have in their heads when they search for a home robot. Neither has a price page, an order flow, or a waitlist. Musk's $20,000 to $30,000 is a target he repeats, and it has no checkout attached. The full dated version of that gap is in how much a humanoid robot costs.
Out of stock is not the same as dead, and backordered is not the same as vapor. But when a category's most famous products are also its least purchasable, the search term is measuring attention rather than supply.
Multiply before you compare
Four of the thirteen bill you after the sale, and the sticker stops being useful the moment they do. NEO is in this table for scale rather than because you can buy one.
| Product | Total at 1 year | At 2 years | At 5 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eilik | $139.99 | $139.99 | $139.99 |
| Vector 2.0 (annual plan) | $299.98 | $399.97 | $699.94 |
| Miko 3 with Miko Max | $398 | $497 | $794 |
| ElliQ (annual plan) | $837 | $1,425 | $3,189 |
| Sony aibo (cloud included 3 years) | above $3,000 | no change | above $3,600 |
| 1X NEO subscription | $5,988 | $11,976 | $29,940 |
Vector is the sharpest case. The $199.99 body still moves without a plan, and anki.bot's own page allows that Vector "can function without subscription, but he won't be connected to the Vector cloud, which is where the action happens." The voice, the questions and the ChatGPT layer are the rented parts. Eilik at $139.99 has no account, no cloud and nothing to cancel. At this end of the shelf, where the brain lives matters more than any spec on the box.
The subscription question also decides what happens if the maker folds. A robot whose personality lives locally keeps it. One whose personality lives in a data center becomes plastic on the day the invoice stops getting paid, the recurring cause of death across the consumer robot graveyard.
The robots that clean are a different aisle
Search "home robot for sale" and you will get walking machines and talking machines. The robots that actually reduce household labor are none of the above. A Roomba 105 Vac with an AutoEmpty dock is $279.99 on iRobot's own store, cut from $449.99, and it does one bounded job in one bounded space forever. Same story for mowers, window cleaners and pool robots. That whole tier, and the reason it works while the general-purpose tier does not, is mapped in robots in the home, what actually works.
Nothing on the thirteen-item list above will vacuum. Buying a companion expecting chores is the most common way people end up disappointed with a machine doing exactly what it advertised.
Three checks before you pay
Reach the checkout before you commit to a number. Half the prices published about this category are collection-page prices for variants that are unavailable, or reseller markups. Get to the cart with your color and your address in it.
Read the shipping line on anything from Unitree. A $1,600 Go2 with $700 of shipping and a customs bill is a $2,400-plus machine, and Unitree states plainly that the customer handles duties and clearance.
Decide whether you are buying a body or a service. If the sales page leads with what the AI will say to you, the monthly fee is the product and you should price five years, not one.
For anyone shopping for a parent rather than for themselves, the sort changes completely: the $159.99 comfort pet beats the $499 petbot in most memory-care situations, and several states hand out ElliQ at no cost through aging agencies. That case is worked through in the companion robots for seniors guide.
The list above will be shorter or longer next month, mostly because of stock rather than launches. Four of the nine blocked entries are held up by inventory alone, which means the real answer to what is for sale moves on a warehouse's schedule rather than the industry's.
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