Humanoid robots for the home: what exists vs what's demoed. Offbrand Human

Search "humanoid robot for home" and the results imply a shelf of android butlers waiting for your credit card. Almost everything filmed doing chores is a factory robot, a developer platform, or a keynote slide. So here is every full-size humanoid people search for, sorted by the only thing that matters: whether a household can actually get one.

Where every home humanoid actually stands

Four buckets: shipping toward a home, shipping to developers, demoing to nobody who can buy it, or not a product at all.

Bucket	What it means	Who is in it (mid-2026)
Ships toward a home	You can put money down; delivery is real or imminent	1X NEO (preorder, teleop-assisted)
Ships, but not a home helper	Sold openly as a research or developer platform; the G1 and R1 have a real checkout, the H2 and K1 route to a sales contact	Unitree G1, R1, H2; Booster K1
Demos only (commercial or pilot)	Real hardware, real videos, no consumer purchase path	Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, XPeng Iron
No product for you at all	Enormous hype, no price, no order button	Tesla Optimus

Status ladder of home humanoids, five rungs. Ships home: 1X NEO preorder, $20,000 or $499 a month, $200 deposit, a remote 1X expert drives the hard tasks, no delivery anyone can point to, and a tile counting the one robot a household can order. Dev platform, pictured with Unitree's photo of an R1 running on a road: R1 from $4,900, G1 $13,500 (was about $16,000), H2 $29,900 and the old H1 at $90,000, walks and balances but you code the rest. Dev platform again, pictured with Booster's photo of a T1: Booster K1 from $5,999 at booster.tech, sold flatly as Made for Developers, a lab platform and not a home assistant. Demos only, pictured with Apptronik's photo of Apollo: Apollo goes to warehouses first, Figure 03 at BMW since 2026-06-30, XPeng Iron on XPeng's own car lines, no consumer price or purchase path. No product: Tesla Optimus, no price page, Musk said in January 2026 that none are doing useful work, $20,000 to $30,000 is his target against analyst estimates of $50,000 to $100,000+, and a tile counting zero ways to buy one.

The one aimed at your house: 1X NEO

NEO is the only full-size humanoid whose maker markets it as a home robot and will actually take your order. On 1x.tech/order it lists at $20,000 outright or $499/month, with a $200 refundable deposit due today and the line "US Deliveries start 2026." That is genuinely historic. It is also the whole catch.

1X marketing photo of NEO, a beige knit-skinned humanoid with a ring-lit face, folding a brown sweater over the back of a couch in a sunlit living room while a man stands by the garden doors looking at his phone, the exact domestic scene the $20,000 preorder is selling. — The pitch in one frame: laundry handled, owner not involved, nothing on screen about who is driving. Photo: 1X Technologies

NEO's own product page describes "basic autonomy for early owners," and then this: "For complex tasks NEO doesn't know, an Expert from 1X can remotely supervise its actions at scheduled times." In plain terms, for anything hard, a remote 1X employee drives the robot in your home through a VR headset. Fortune reported in February 2026 that NEO could not yet do household tasks autonomously and that early buyers are effectively training the AI. The Wall Street Journal got a day with one on camera, and the pattern held: the impressive moments had a human pilot behind them. No independently verified customer delivery had happened as of this writing.

Independent footage of NEO working a real house, teleoperation included, which no maker video will show you.

What $20,000 buys in 2026 is a training-fleet membership, with a stranger occasionally seeing through your robot's cameras. Full breakdown in the Neo preorder explainer, live status on the Neo tracker page.

Ships today, but it is not a butler: Unitree and Booster

You can genuinely check out and pay for a walking humanoid right now, if you stick to Unitree's two cheapest. It just will not do your dishes on its own.

Unitree G1: $13,500 on Unitree's store, down from about $16,000 at its May 2024 launch (one of the rare robots that got cheaper). Unitree's own G1 page tells individual buyers to "thoroughly understand the limitations of humanoid robots before making a purchase."
Unitree R1: from $4,900. The first sub-$5,000 full-size-ish biped. Same platform caveat.
Unitree H2: $29,900 (the old flagship H1 is $90,000). Neither has a cart; both route to sales_global@unitree.cc.
Booster K1: from $5,999, sold at booster.tech and described flatly as "Made for Developers." Buy Now opens an inquiry form, not a checkout.

Unitree's cut-out action render of a G1 in boxing headgear and red gloves throwing a blurred punch at a black heavy bag on a white background, which is the use case Unitree actually promotes for the platform sold in this section. — Unitree's own promo art for the G1: headgear, gloves, heavy bag. No chore anywhere in the frame. Render: Unitree

None of these are home assistants. They are programmable platforms for labs, robotics students, and tinkerers. Out of the box a G1 walks and balances; what it does is whatever you (or a research team) write. It is a very expensive way to learn what "research platform" means, and Unitree's own product page tells you so before you reach the checkout button. See the full tracker for every current price and ship date.

Demos only: aimed at your living room, currently living at a car factory

These are the robots in the slick chore videos. Watch where they actually clock in.

Figure 03 markets "the future of home help" and its Helix AI for household navigation. Figure's own news timeline shows F.03 arriving at BMW on 2026-06-30. It is deployed to an automaker, not a home. No consumer price is published anywhere I can load.
Apptronik Apollo is "manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics" first, with the home named as an eventual future ("and ultimately, the home"). The only button on apptronik.com is contact sales.
XPeng Iron is working XPeng's own production lines assembling cars, with mass production targeted for end of 2026. No consumer purchase path.

Figure's studio image of a single robot from the waist up on a black background, light gray knit skin over black joints, a glossy black head with no face, and F.03 printed on the chest, the marketing portrait of the robot this section says you cannot buy. — How Figure presents F.03 on its own product page: soft knit, no seams, no factory in sight. Photo: Figure

Real hardware, real capability, zero ways for a household to buy one. Figure's Helix demo below is the best of the genre, two F.03s tidying a bedroom on their own. Watch it, be impressed, then remember that every customer Figure has named so far is a company, not a household.

The maker's strongest home-chore footage to date, on the page so you can judge the gap between this demo and anything you can order.

No product at all: Tesla Optimus

Optimus is the most-searched humanoid and the least buyable. There is no price page and no reservation flow. What it has instead is a pattern Musk documented himself. Under a January 2024 Optimus demo he posted the note that the robot "cannot yet do this autonomously" but "certainly will be able to do this fully autonomously and in an arbitrary environment."

Musk's own note on a January 2024 Optimus demo: it cannot yet do this autonomously, but certainly will be able to, fully and in an arbitrary environment. (@elonmusk, 2024-01-15)

On the page as the dated autonomy promise, in the CEO's own words, that everything after it gets measured against.

Two years on, in January 2026, Musk admitted "no Optimus robots are doing useful work" at Tesla, and the V3 reveal has slipped repeatedly through 2026. The quoted "$20,000 to $30,000" is a Musk target; analysts peg early units at $50,000 to $100,000+. Every "Optimus for $20K" headline is quoting an aspiration, not a product. I log the slippage on the Optimus tracker page.

Tesla studio close-up of an Optimus head and one shoulder on a black background: a glossy black faceplate with a small camera at the temple, black fabric over the neck and collar, and a bare silver chest panel with the shoulder actuator bolted on, which is the closest thing Optimus has to a product page. — Cropped to the head and one shoulder, lit like a phone launch. This is the whole customer experience so far. Photo: Tesla

So what actually goes in a home in 2026?

If the real goal is a robot in your house this year, a $20,000 teleoperated humanoid is probably not it. The context worth keeping: Goldman Sachs' 2030 base case is 250,000+ humanoids shipped, "almost all of which would be for industrial use" (Goldman, Feb 2024). The consumer wave is a mid-2030s story. What genuinely works in homes today is smaller and cheaper: desk companions and eldercare companions, not bipeds.

For the humanoids specifically, start with Humanoid robots you can actually buy in 2026, and if the question underneath yours is really "can it do anything by itself," read How autonomous are humanoid robots, really? That is the answer that matters most before anyone puts down a deposit.