Unitree R1
Best for Tech enthusiasts, creators and developers who want a walking humanoid at home todayCheapest walking humanoid you can buy, but it cannot do chores
As of October 2026, no humanoid robot built for chores has reached a paying US household. 1X takes $20,000 preorders for NEO with deliveries promised in 2026, Weave says its wheeled Isaac 1 ships to California this fall for $7,999, and Flourish Robots plans 50 units of its $3,555 Flourish 1 in December. Unitree's R1 and G1 are on sale now, but they are developer and entertainment machines, not housekeepers. Figure, Tesla, LG and SwitchBot have shown home demos without opening orders, and Sunday plans a 50 family Memo beta. Reporters who saw these robots found them slow, and several makers use remote human operators for hard tasks. This page tracks status, price and what independent reporters actually saw. How we score.
Cheapest walking humanoid you can buy, but it cannot do chores
Full featured walking humanoid on sale, built for developers, not chores
Soft bodied home humanoid on $20,000 preorder, US deliveries promised 2026
Wheeled laundry and tidy robot, $7,999 preorder, California first
$3,555 tidy robot you teach with your phone, 50 units shipping December
Dish and laundry robot entering a 50 family beta in late 2026
Artificial muscle android with free reservations, no price or ship date
Smart home brand's laundry humanoid, listed at $9,999 but sold out with no way to order
Well funded humanoid built for homes, but no price or order page yet
Musk says public sales by end of 2027; no price, preorder or V3 yet
LG's chore humanoid from CES 2026; real home trials first, no sale date
We did not test these robots. We ranked them by how close each is to a real home purchase: order status, a published US price and ship date, home chore features, and independent hands on reports from journalists who saw the robot. Unitree's R1 and G1 are on sale but rank below chore focused preorders because the makers claim no household tasks. Full method.
| # | Robot | Status | Price | Ships | Autonomy | Payload | Runtime | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Unitree R1 | on sale | $5,900 | Shipping now; RoboStore said in June 2026 that US orders ship within 30 days | Voice and image interaction from a multimodal model; remote control out of the box per RoboStore; SDK programming only on EDU | Not published; Unitree lists about 2 kg max arm joint torque and says arm load varies with posture | About 1 hour; quick release battery | n/a |
| n/a | Unitree G1 | on sale | $13,500 | Robozaps listed the base G1 as backordered in July 2026 | Remote controlled and programmable; secondary development only on EDU. Unitree advises keeping a safe distance from people. | About 2 kg arm max load (3 kg on EDU), varies with arm posture | About 2 hours; 9,000 mAh quick release battery | n/a |
| n/a | 1X NEO | preorder | $20,000 | Maker says US deliveries start in 2026, Early Access buyers first and $499/month subscribers later. No customer delivery had been announced as of October 5, 2026 (BotInfo), and 1X said in April 2026 that first units were going to internal testing. | The maker says NEO works autonomously by default. For chores it does not know, owners schedule a 1X Expert, a US based 1X employee, who guides it remotely; ear rings change color while an Expert is connected. The WSJ's October 2025 demo was run by a human operator in a VR headset, and Dezeen reported in April 2026 that most tasks still need teleoperation. | Lifts 154 lb, carries 55 lb, 18 lb arm payload (maker) | 4 hours per charge from an 842 Wh battery; quick charge of 6 minutes per hour of runtime (maker) | n/a |
| n/a | Weave Robotics Isaac 1 | preorder | $7,999 | Maker says first shipments in fall 2026, starting in California; The Next Web reported September 2026 as the start. No delivery confirmation found as of 2026-10-16. | The maker says Isaac 1 runs Laundry Flow and Daily Reset autonomously by default, with teleoperation assistance when needed to finish tasks. Fox News notes Weave's privacy policy lets its workforce remotely access camera data. | Not published | 8 hours; about 2 hours to charge (maker) | n/a |
| n/a | Flourish Robots Flourish 1 | preorder | $3,555 | December 2026 for the first 50 numbered units (maker) | Owner teaches each chore in about 30 minutes by driving or demonstrating with a phone, then the robot repeats it on its own (maker). Founder told Forbes it can be teleoperated for fun but is designed to work autonomously. Needs cloud GPUs or your own computer. | 3.3 lb (maker); The Robot Report describes 1.5 kg per arm | Up to 12 hours (maker claim) | n/a |
| n/a | Sunday Robotics Memo | waitlist | Not announced | Founding Family beta of about 50 homes in late 2026; Sunday targeted Thanksgiving 2026. Sale only after beta (maker). | Maker says Memo works autonomously and needs no teleoperation in your home; trained from people wearing Sunday's Skill Capture Glove. Its limbs yield to touch and it stays upright if power is cut (maker). | Not published | Not published | n/a |
| n/a | Clone Robotics Clone Alpha | waitlist | Not announced | No ship date; first 279 units offered for reservation | Not published; Robozaps found no public footage of it standing, walking or doing a chore as of July 2026 | Not published | Not published | n/a |
| n/a | SwitchBot onero H1 | announced | $9,999 | SwitchBot store shows Coming Soon; Gadget Review reported late 2026 availability and Kaden Watch said general sales targeted within 2026 | Maker calls it fully automatic, learning tasks with its OmniSense VLA model; teleoperation not addressed | Not published | Not published | n/a |
| n/a | Figure 03 | announced | Not announced | No home date. CEO Brett Adcock told TIME in October 2025: "We think we can get there in 2026, but it's a big push." | Runs Figure's Helix vision language action model; TIME saw human pilots in VR headsets collecting training data, and at launch the robot needed help with home tasks | 20 kg (44 lb) | 5 hours; wireless inductive charging at 2 kW through the feet | n/a |
| n/a | Tesla Optimus | announced | Not announced | Musk said in January 2026: "By the end of next year, I think we'll be selling humanoid robots to the public," tied to high reliability and safety | Tesla says AI5 should let it work without connectivity. At the October 2024 We, Robot event, TechCrunch and Bloomberg reported robots were largely remote operated by humans. | Not published for the current model; 45 lb (20 kg) in the 2021 AI Day plan | Not published | n/a |
| n/a | LG CLOiD | announced | Not announced | No date; LG plans a real world feasibility demonstration the year after CES 2026 and says launch depends on results | Maker describes vision language and vision language action models trained on tens of thousands of hours of household data; teleoperation not addressed | Not published | Not published | n/a |
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