Every humanoid robot preorder you can place right now

Three companies will take your money today to hold a place in line for a robot that does not exist yet, across five machines between them. That is the entire humanoid robot preorder board in August 2026. The deposits run from 100 euros to $250, and every one is fully refundable, which is the good news.

The other news is in the fine print. Only one of these makers publishes its preorder contract in full, and it says plainly that paying the deposit does not oblige anyone to sell you a robot. I quote it below.

The open ledger

Robot	Maker	Deposit	Price when it ships	Claimed delivery	Refundable until
Neo	1X	$200	$20,000 or $499/mo	"US Deliveries start 2026"	"the point of your NEO being ready for delivery"
Isaac 1	Weave Robotics	$250	$7,999 or $449/mo	First shipments fall 2026, California first	Any time until it ships (FAQ)
4NE1 Gen 3.5	Neura Robotics	100 euros per unit	98,000 euros est. (1 to 19 units, ex tax and shipping)	End of 2026	Before the final purchase agreement is signed
4NE1 Mini	Neura Robotics	100 euros	19,999 euros Standard, 29,999 euros Pro	2026	Same
MiPA	Neura Robotics	100 euros per unit	9,999 euros	Late 2026	Same
Jennie	Tombot	none, waitlist only	not published	not stated	n/a

Sources, in order: 1x.tech/order, weaverobotics.com/isaac-1, Neura's 4NE1 reservation page, 4NE1 Mini, MiPA, tombot.com.

Three of those are humanoids in the sense most people mean: Neo walks on two legs, and Neura calls the 4NE1 a "full-scale cognitive humanoid" and the Mini a "compact cognitive humanoid." Weave's Isaac 1 has two arms, a head, a torso that telescopes between 3 feet and 5 feet 9 inches, and a wheeled base, so it is a home robot rather than a biped. MiPA is Neura's home assistant, sold separately from its humanoid line. Jennie is a robotic dog and takes no money.

What the deposit actually buys

Weave's Pre-Order Agreement is the most readable document in the category, mostly because it declines to flatter anyone. The deposit, it says, "does not constitute a commitment by Weave to deliver a Device or begin providing the Services. Rather, it constitutes your purchase of the opportunity to enter into a future Order Agreement, subject to availability and Weave's discretion."

You are buying a queue position. Weave prices that at $250 and says so on the tin. Section 6 of the same document is headed "No obligation to sell." Section 4 ends with the line that matters if things go wrong: "Refund of the Deposit is Customer's sole and exclusive remedy."

That is the correct legal shape for selling something you have not finished building, and I would rather read it than not. It should still end any idea that a deposit locks in a price, a date, or a robot. 1X and Neura publish no equivalent document on their reservation pages, so their terms arrive later, after the money.

The refund window closes before the robot arrives

Three companies, three phrasings, one structure.

1X's order-page FAQ: "pre-order deposits to reserve your NEO are fully refundable up to the point of your NEO being ready for delivery." That cutoff falls before delivery day, at a moment 1X gets to declare.

Weave's FAQ says the $250 "is refundable any time until your Isaac 1 ships," while the Pre-Order Agreement frames the cutoff as the execution of a separate Order Agreement, which by definition happens before anything ships.

Neura, on all three reservation pages: "You may request a full refund of your reservation fee at any time before your final purchase agreement is signed." The 100 euros is then credited against the unit price.

So the refundable money is the small money. The large money, the $7,999 or the $20,000 or the 98,000 euros, moves under a second agreement nobody publishes.

What is not a preorder, whatever the roundups say

• Tesla Optimus. No order page, no price, no reservation, no waitlist, per its tracker row. The latest dated claim is Musk at Davos on 2026-01-22: public sales by the end of 2027, conditional even then.
• Figure 03 and Apptronik Apollo. Enterprise deployments, with no consumer channel to join, not even an email box.
• Unitree G1. This one gets miscounted constantly. It is a real checkout at $13,500, and Unitree's own store page says "G1 is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock." So you pay the entire $13,500 up front, plus $300 to $1,200 shipping and buyer-paid customs, to join a queue. Paying in full for a place in line is a worse deal than a refundable deposit, and it is the deal most "you can buy a humanoid" articles are quietly describing.
• Booster T1. The Buy Now button leads to an inquiry form and there is no public price.
• Tombot Jennie. A real waitlist, free to join, first production run already sold out. Tombot's wording: "When we get closer to shipping, we will contact you with pricing and availability." No price has ever been published, so anyone quoting you one is quoting a company estimate from secondary coverage.

The precedent worth keeping in mind

Deposits in this category have a decent track record, and it comes from a failure. Mayfield Robotics took $100 deposits against a $699 Kuri, Bosch declined further funding in July 2018, and every one came back: "All pre-order deposits have been refunded to our customers." The consumer robot graveyard has the full accounting, including Moxie, where the money at risk was a $799 purchase and there were no refunds at all.

The pattern across a decade holds. Small refundable money tends to come home. Money paid in full for hardware that later depends on a server does not.

Five things to check before you pay

1. Find the refund trigger and write down the date. "Ready for delivery" and "before your final purchase agreement is signed" are both events the company declares, not events you control.
2. Read the second contract first. Ask for the Order Agreement, the warranty and the return window in writing before you deposit. If a company will not show you, that is information too.
3. Check the delivery region against your address. Neo is US only, international "later." Isaac 1 goes to California first, the rest of the US "through 2027." Neura prices in euros and states no shipping region on its three reservation pages, so ask before paying.
4. Assume the price is an estimate. Neura labels its figures "estimated price" and excludes taxes and shipping. On a 98,000 euro machine, "excluding shipping" is a real number.
5. Confirm how much of the work a human does. 1X says Neo "works autonomously by default," and that for a chore it does not know you schedule a 1X Expert (a US-based employee) to guide it. Fortune reported in February 2026 that chores were in practice being driven by 1X staff in VR. Weave says Isaac 1 is autonomous for its two headline features "with teleoperation assistance when needed." My Neo preorder explainer covers what that means once the robot is in your kitchen.

Where this leaves a normal buyer

Putting $200 or $250 down is the cheapest way to find out whether any of this becomes real, and it is refundable right until the interesting part starts. What it does not buy is a delivery date. Neo's "US Deliveries start 2026" has under five months left to run and I still cannot point to one independently verified customer delivery. Isaac 1's "fall of 2026" is the nearest testable claim on the board.

1X, answering a customer asking about the schedule: "Still starting deliveries in 2026" (@1x_tech, 2026-03-27)

If you want a robot that arrives this month, the things you can actually buy today are developer platforms and desk companions, and the cheapest walking humanoid with a real checkout is $4,900 with no autonomy included.