Humanoid robots: what they cost to buy, rent or hire, with receipts

Four ways to pay for a humanoid

The lineup: every humanoid with a price to buy

One row per robot, cheapest first. A dot is one published price; a hollow dot means the price comes with a catch: the seller says the real price is on request, or the figure is only illustrative or a "from" price reported second-hand. Each currency has its own scale, because converting would add our guess to theirs. Hover or tap for the source. Sizes are from the seller's page where it states them.

The honest catch: these are mostly small humanoids and developer kits. A robot that walks and waves is a different product from one that works a shift. Tesla, Figure and Apptronik publish no price we could find, so they are not on this chart. Agility's only figure is an illustrative price in an SEC merger filing, shown as a hollow dot. Who makes humanoids · who rents them out

Bot or Not? Humanoid edition

Who this page is not for: anyone who needs floors cleaned, boxes moved or parts welded next month. Start with the job instead: floor scrubbing, cart transport, cleaning robot prices, or take the Ladder Test.

What to ask at the demo

1. Is that price for the robot I just watched? Demo units often carry the dexterous hands, the bigger computer and the EDU software. The list price is often for the basic version. Ask which version, in writing.
2. Can I write my own software for it? Several makers sell an EDU version for that and a cheaper version that you cannot program. Unitree's store says so on the product page.
3. What does it actually do on day one, without your engineers? Ask for the list of tasks it does out of the box and how many hours of teaching or teleoperation each one took.
4. How long does it run, and how long does it charge? Hours per charge, hot-swap batteries or not, and what happens when it falls over.
5. What is not in the price? Shipping, duties, insurance, a charger, spare parts, software subscriptions, safety assessment and training. Several store pages say shipping and duties are extra.
6. Who is liable when it breaks something? Tau Robotics' service terms cap liability at USD 2,500. Ask every seller and service company for theirs.

Then put it in writing: how to write a robot quote request · RaaS contract red flags · hidden costs of robots · Household humanoid robots · Humanoid robot rental for research & demos · Research robot platforms · Robots for events (rental)

The receipts (29 rows)

Every row links to the page it came from. "As of" is when the price was published or when we read it.

How this page is built

• Rows: published prices already in our dataset for a robot the source page calls a humanoid. We tag each row by hand (robot, way to pay); a keyword match alone is not enough, because "humanoid" also turns up in rows that are not humanoid robots.
• Nothing is converted, scaled, averaged or estimated. The two sums above are one published price divided by another, and the page shows both receipts.
• List, store, dealer and rental prices, not quotes. Dealer prices in EUR are net of VAT, as published. Shipping, duties and set-up are usually extra.
• Our price history is append-only: when a price changes we add a row and keep the old one.
• Wrong or missing? Send a correction or a price; we log corrections publicly.