Humanoid robots in 2026: what actually shipped
Eight months into 2026 the production lines are real and the consumer deliveries are not. AgiBot's 15,000th unit and more than 350 Figure 03s against zero verified 1X Neo home deliveries and zero Optimus units sold, and since July 28 a new foreign-made robot cannot get FCC authorization to be sold here.
Plenty of humanoid robots shipped in 2026. Almost none of them shipped to a person.
Eight months in, the machines coming off production lines are going to factories, pilot programs and research labs. AgiBot says its 15,000th robot rolled off the line on June 28. Figure had built more than 350 Figure 03s by the end of April. Unitree will sell any adult with $4,900 and a shipping address a walking biped today. The count of independently verified 1X Neo deliveries into a customer's home is zero, and the count of Tesla Optimus units sold to anybody is also zero. Here is the ledger, as of August 7, 2026.
The scorecard
| Maker and robot | The 2026 promise | What has actually shipped |
|---|---|---|
| 1X Neo | "US Deliveries start 2026", still the wording on the order page | Factory opened April 30, 10,000 units/year capacity. No verified customer delivery |
| Tesla Optimus | V3 reveal "probably middle of this year"; Fremont production "late July or August" | No reveal, no published unit count, no way to order one |
| Figure 03 | Ramp production at BotQ; marketing still points at the home | 350-plus built by April 29, arrived at BMW June 30. Zero consumer units |
| Unitree G1 / R1 / H2 | No promises. It sells from stock | Ships. $4,290 to $100,000 on the store today |
| AgiBot G2 | Scale embodied AI into real deployments | 15,000th robot June 28. A wheeled manipulator with a humanoid torso, working in factories |
| Booster K1 / T1 / T2 | "Made for developers", shipping worldwide | K1 lists from $5,999. T1 and T2 still have no public price |
Sources for each row are linked below, Booster's on its own store. Every price here was checked today. Figure published its April number with footage of the line it came off.
The one shipment number you can check from outside
Production milestones are self-reported, which makes the third-party count the interesting one. Omdia ranked AgiBot first in the world for 2025 humanoid shipments at 5,168 units and 39 percent share, a figure The Robot Report cited alongside the June 28 announcement. Run the arithmetic on those two numbers and the planet's entire 2025 humanoid output lands near 13,000 machines, roughly the size of one company's preorder book: 1X says it sold out its first year of Neo capacity, more than 10,000 units, in five days.
Note what the milestone unit is. AgiBot's G2 is a wheeled mobile manipulator with a humanoid torso and arms, built for industrial work. The year's biggest "humanoid shipped" number arrives on wheels.
Nobody's Neo has arrived
1X made the cleanest promise in the category, because it wrote the promise on a checkout page. Preorders opened in late October 2025 at $20,000 to own or $499 a month, on a $200 refundable deposit. On April 30 the company opened its Hayward factory, claiming capacity for 10,000 Neos a year, 100,000 or more by the end of 2027, and "first customer shipments of NEO planned for 2026." The same release puts the robots being built then into an R&D lab and internal home testing.
Today 1x.tech/order still reads "US Deliveries start 2026," at the same $20,000, $499 a month and $200 deposit. I can find no independently verified delivery to a paying customer's home. The latest post on 1X's updates page is a July 9 engineering piece about Neo's 25-degree-of-freedom hands, which is not a delivery announcement.
Four and a half months are left for that sentence to come true. When a Neo lands in a house that does not belong to a 1X employee, read the operating arrangement behind it rather than the unboxing video: the Neo preorder explainer and the Neo tracker page cover it.
Optimus: a year spent building the line
Tesla spent the year building the place where Optimus will be made. On the April 22 earnings call Musk said Gen 3 would be revealed "probably middle of this year" and that production would start at Fremont in "late July or August," with initial output "quite slow" across roughly 10,000 unique parts. The Model S and X lines came out to make room.
Middle of the year has been and gone. I can find no V3 reveal, no cumulative production figure, no order channel. In January Musk admitted no Optimus robots were doing useful work at Tesla; on July 2 he pushed back on the theory that Tesla is secretly further along, warning that manufacturing will be extremely slow at first. The promise-by-promise record sits in the dated claims archive. The 2026 entries are all tooling.
The price moves
Prices here drift down, which is unusual this early in a category. Unitree figures were on shop.unitree.com on August 7, 2026.
| Robot | Earlier price (dated) | Price today |
|---|---|---|
| Unitree R1 | from $5,900 at launch, July 2025 | from $4,900 (R1-D from $4,290) |
| Unitree G1 | about $16,000 at launch, May 2024 | $13,500 |
| Unitree H2 | no earlier price, launched into the H1's slot | $29,900 (H1 still lists at $90,000) |
| 1X Neo | $20,000 or $499/mo at preorder launch, October 2025 | Unchanged |
| Tesla Optimus | $20,000 to $30,000, a Musk target | Still a target, no checkout |
The R1's launch figure comes from Unitree's own July 2025 post introducing it "from $5900." A thousand dollars came off inside a year, and the H2 now sits at $29,900 beside an H1 still listed at $90,000. The longer arc is in the Unitree G1 price history.
The rule that changed what can ship next
The biggest 2026 event for a US buyer was not a robot. On July 28 the FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its Covered List. The definition is broad: mobile machines "including autonomous mobile robots, humanoid robots, and quadrupeds" that move on the ground, run remotely or on sensor data, weigh more than 4.4 pounds, and carry a sensor, network connectivity and navigation software. Connected vehicles, drones, medical devices and fixed industrial arms are carved out. Household robots are not.
Two law-firm readings agree on the shape of it. Per Crowell's alert, new models cannot receive FCC equipment authorization and cannot be imported, marketed or sold, while "the prohibitions are forward looking, and do not affect the continued use of ... advanced robotic devices previously acquired or models that the FCC previously approved." Wiley's alert adds two things: the scope is not limited to particular countries, with an exemption for domestic end products under trade law, and previously authorized models can keep being made and sold but cannot be modified beyond software updates, under a waiver running at least until January 1, 2029.
For anyone who already owns an imported quadruped, nothing about it changed on July 28. For anyone waiting on next year's model of one, that previous paragraph is the one to reread.
Unitree, the maker with the most to lose, put the same warning in the most expensive possible venue. It priced its Shanghai IPO on August 6 at 150.8 yuan a share, valuing it near 61 billion yuan, about $9.04 billion, per Reuters wire copy. Its 2025 revenue was 1.7 billion yuan, 867.8 million of it from humanoids. In its risk disclosures the company noted that existing models hold US approvals while future models could be barred from sale there. The maker of the cheapest walking humanoid you can buy has told its investors the next one may not be sellable here.
What a consumer actually received in 2026
Robots did arrive in homes this year. They were small and they were not humanoids. From our tracker, verified August 4: Eilik at $139.99, EMO at $279, the Loona petbot at $499, Vector 2.0 at $199.99 plus $11.99 a month for the voice features. They ship in days and work with nobody driving them (desktop robots guide, full tracker).
For bipeds the picture has barely moved since January: three, maybe four machines a US consumer can order, all platforms rather than appliances. The list, with what "buy" means in each case, is humanoid robots you can actually buy in 2026.
Three checkpoints for the rest of the year
Falsifiable, so you can hold this page to them in January.
- A verified Neo delivery. Not a factory tour, not a demo house. A paying customer outside 1X, robot in the kitchen, before December 31.
- An Optimus number. A V3 reveal, or a cumulative production count from Tesla. There is neither today, and the Optimus tracker page has an empty column where the units go.
- Whether the shelf empties. Previously authorized foreign models can still be sold. Watch whether US listings for imported quadrupeds and companion robots thin out as stock ages and no successor can be certified.
The factories got real this year. The doorbell has not rung.
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