Robot catalogue

The most searched humanoid in the world is also the one you cannot buy. Optimus works inside Tesla's own factories, which makes it a demonstration of what a vertically integrated manufacturer can build rather than a machine anyone else can put to work.

No public rental rate

Figure is the humanoid with the longest continuous record on a real automotive line. The Spartanburg deployment matters more than any demo video, because it is measured in vehicles built rather than moves performed.

No public rental rate

A humanoid you can actually order, at a price closer to a car than to a factory line. The T2 is a capable research platform, which is a different thing from a machine with a job.

USD 45000

The R1 is the machine that broke the price floor for humanoids. At 5,900 dollars it costs less than many industrial vacuum cleaners, which changes who can plausibly own one.

USD 5900

The robot that taught the public what humanoids might do, and the one you are least likely to ever encounter at work. Atlas exists to push what is mechanically possible, and its results migrate into the machines the company actually sells.

No public rental rate

At roughly the price of a used car, the G1 put a walking humanoid within reach of individual buyers for the first time. It is 1.32 metres tall, carries two kilograms per arm, and runs about two hours between charges.

USD 13500

Unitree's full-size platform, priced roughly six times the G1. The H1 exists for work that needs adult reach and dynamic movement, and it is bought almost entirely by institutions rather than operators.

USD 90000

A 1.73 metre humanoid that lifts around 25 kilograms and runs on hot-swappable battery packs, built to work next to people under force-control safety limits. It is one of two humanoids with a named automotive customer.

No public rental rate

The first humanoid sold to consumers on a monthly subscription rather than to businesses on a contract. At 499 dollars a month it is priced like a car lease and aimed at the household rather than the warehouse.

USD 499 per month

One of the best-funded Chinese humanoid makers, renting units by the day at a rate that puts a month of hire near the purchase price of a Booster T2. The day rate is the tell: this is project work, not a shift.

No public rental rate

Digit has the most auditable work history in humanoid robotics. Sixty-five thousand logged hours is not a demo reel, it is a record an accountant can value.

No public rental rate

A robot built for one job that everybody hates: unloading a container by hand. Stretch is the clearest case in commercial robotics of a machine designed around a single unpleasant task rather than around general capability.

No public rental rate

A six-axis collaborative arm priced by the hour rather than by the unit. It is the only machine in this catalogue quoted the way electricity is, which makes its economics unusually easy to compare against a wage.

USD 3650 per month

At the low end of the rental market, a serving robot costs a restaurant less per month than a part-time shift. That price point, not any technical breakthrough, is why these machines are now ordinary.

USD 300–500 per month

A direct competitor to the BellaBot at almost the same monthly rate, which tells you the serving-robot category has already commoditised. Keenon has pushed further into hospitals and elder care, where the same delivery job carries different requirements.

USD 350–550 per month

A serving robot at three to five times the rate of the entry models, aimed at chains rather than single restaurants. The premium buys integration, fleet management and a support organisation rather than a fundamentally different machine.

USD 1500–2000 per month

A floor scrubber that runs its own routes is the workhorse of commercial robotics. It is boring, it is expensive to rent, and it works every night.

USD 2000–3500 per month

The cheapest end of commercial cleaning automation. Whiz is trained by walking it around once, which is why it spread through office buildings faster than more capable machines.

USD 400–800 per month

A Zurich startup building the robot nobody makes videos about: one that cleans restrooms. It swaps tools, doses cleaning agents and handles fixtures, which is harder than pushing a scrubber across a lobby.

No public rental rate

Sits between the cheap carpet machines and the heavy hard-floor scrubbers, which is a deliberate position: buildings rarely have only one floor type, and a machine that handles both removes the need to run two contracts.

USD 1500–2500 per month

A Zurich-built quadruped that does the rounds a technician would otherwise walk. Legs matter here because inspection routes involve stairs, gratings and thresholds that defeat wheeled machines.

No public rental rate

The most recognisable robot in the world outside of film, and one of very few quadrupeds with a genuine installed base. Spot sells into industrial inspection, where its job is to walk the same route a technician would and come back with readings.

No public rental rate