Category lead
Humanoid · 50%
The route is deepest in Humanoid, with Commercial as the next strongest follow-through.
12 manufacturers and 16 tracked robots, shaped into a country brief that shows where USA is deepest, how much of the route is actually sourceable, and which maker pages deserve the next serious click.
Catalog rank
#3
Ready now
12/16
Price-visible
2/16
What matters first
Use the top-line signals here to judge whether this country already gives you enough breadth, price visibility, and vendor depth to build a serious shortlist.
Listed average
$13,275
Price range
$1,599–$24,950
Release window
2010–2025
Source coverage
16/16 official links
Category lead
The route is deepest in Humanoid, with Commercial as the next strongest follow-through.
Coverage quality
13% price-visible and 94% image-backed, which tells you how quickly this route can turn into a shortlist instead of a research backlog.
Maker concentration
Boston Dynamics contributes the biggest slice of tracked models, so this route is broad enough to compare beyond one flagship.
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Manufacturers
5
Tracked categories
12
Available or active now
2/16
Cards with public pricing
Category counts, availability mix, and price range reworked for a quicker first pass.
USA can look dominant in this route simply because it is better represented in the ui44 catalog. Treat the counts as a shortlisting aid, then validate the winners on model pages and vendor material.
16 tracked models, restructured into a shortlist-first flow with featured picks up top and denser rows for the long tail.
Start with the models that are easiest to validate — the ones with live imagery, public pricing, or enough documentation to justify a deeper click. Then use the compact rows below to sweep the rest of the market without turning the page into a wall of oversized cards.
Ready now
12
Public price
2
With imagery
15
Manufacturers
12
How to scan this section
Best first clicks
These models score highest on readiness, public detail quality, and image clarity, so they orient the route faster than a purely alphabetical sweep.
Amazon Astro is a wheeled home robot designed for home security monitoring, remote care of elderly relatives, and as a mobile virtual assistant. Built around Alexa, Astro can follow you from room to room, patrol your home autonomously, recognize family members via Visual ID, and send alerts when it sees unrecognized people. Features a 10.1-inch touchscreen display, a 1080p periscope camera with 132° field of view, and runs on Qualcomm processors with Amazon's AZ1 Neural Edge chip for on-device processing. Integrates with Ring security systems for virtual security guard functionality.
Public price
$1,599
$1,599.99 (by invitation only)
Battery
Not officially disclosed
Charge Not officially disclosed
Shortlist read
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Hello Robot's open-source mobile manipulator designed for home environments, assistive care, and Embodied AI research. Stretch 3 is a lightweight (24.5kg) wheeled robot with a telescoping arm, compliant gripper, and 7 degrees of freedom. Its compact 33×34cm footprint lets it navigate real homes. Used by over 100 research labs worldwide, Stretch has one of the largest indoor mobile manipulation communities in robotics, with publications at ICRA, IROS, CoRL, HRI, and NeurIPS. Supports ROS 2 and Python SDK with out-of-the-box demos for autonomous perception, navigation, manipulation, and planning. Features web-based teleoperation for remote control from anywhere.
Public price
$24,950
$24,950 list price (quote /…
Battery
2–5 hours
Charge Not disclosed
Shortlist read
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Full directory
Still sorted by readiness and price clarity, but condensed into calmer row cards so the long tail reads more like a useful database and less like an endless homepage promo grid.
Boston Dynamics' fully electric humanoid robot, unveiled at CES 2026, designed for a wide array of industrial tasks from material handling to order fulfillment. Production began immediately at Boston headquarters, with 2026 deployments fully committed — fleets shipping to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) and Google DeepMind, with additional customers planned for early 2027. Atlas features 56 degrees of freedom, fully rotational joints, a 2.3m reach, and 50kg instant lift capacity. The robot autonomously swaps its own batteries in under 3 minutes for continuous 24/7 operation. Trained using AI foundation models including a partnership with Google DeepMind, with fleet-wide task replication — once one Atlas learns a task, it deploys across the entire fleet. IP67-rated for harsh environments, with fenceless human safety guarding. Offered to qualified enterprise prospects, not sold to normal consumers. Successor to the hydraulic Atlas research platform.
No official pricing published
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Boston Dynamics' agile quadruped robot for industrial inspection, data collection, and remote operations. With over 1,500 units deployed worldwide, Spot is one of the most commercially deployed legged robots. It is sold through Boston Dynamics' enterprise contact-sales flow (not normal consumer retail checkout) and is used across manufacturing, energy, construction, government, and research. Features autonomous navigation, self-charging, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and an optional arm for mobile manipulation. Managed via the Orbit fleet management platform.
Base Explorer Kit historically priced…
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Boston Dynamics' purpose-built warehouse robot designed for autonomous case handling — including truck/container unloading and case picking. Stretch can move up to 800 boxes per hour from trucks and containers onto conveyor belts, working up to two full shifts (16 hours) on a single battery charge. Descended from the Handle research robot, Stretch was introduced in 2021 as Boston Dynamics' first warehouse-specific product. Stretch is commercially sold to qualified warehouse operators via enterprise sales (contact form/BD sales process), not through normal consumer retail checkout. It requires no pre-programming of SKU numbers or box sizes — its vision system detects and handles a wide range of package types autonomously, including recovering fallen packages. Deployed at hundreds of customers worldwide, including DHL (1,000+ unit MOU signed May 2025), Lidl (22 robots rolling out 2026 across Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Spain), NFI, Gap, Arvato, Otto Group, and Maersk. Can be installed and operational within existing warehouse infrastructure in five days or less.
Enterprise pricing (contact sales)
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Image pending
Humanoid · Figure AI
Figure AI's latest humanoid robot, announced October 2025. Uses in-house Helix VLA system (OpenAI partnership ended in 2025). BMW and Figure AI are evaluating Figure 03 for future production deployments following the success of Figure 02 at Spartanburg and Leipzig plants. Not available for consumer purchase.
No pricing announced
Active in the catalog; verify the latest media and rollout details.
Purpose-built humanoid for logistics and warehouse operations. Commercially deployed at multiple Fortune 500 companies including Amazon, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (RaaS deal, Feb 2026), Mercado Libre (Dec 2025), Schaeffler, and GXO. Produced at Agility's RoboFacility in Salem, Oregon. Enterprise RaaS (Robots-as-a-Service) model — no consumer pricing available.
Enterprise deployment via Agility sales…
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Apptronik's general-purpose humanoid robot, developed from experience building NASA's Valkyrie. Apptronik announced a commercial agreement with Mercedes-Benz in 2024 as its first public Apollo deployment, with factory pilot use cases for logistics and kit delivery. Backed by Google and based in Austin, TX.
No public pricing (enterprise)
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Fauna Robotics' bipedal humanoid developer platform designed for safe human interaction. Sprout is a 107cm tall, 22.7kg robot with 29 degrees of freedom, powered by an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB. Designed in New York City and assembled in America, Sprout features a soft exterior, compliant motor control, and a tiered safety system — making it suitable for homes, classrooms, retail, and research labs. The Creator Edition ships today with full SDK access, built-in autonomy, and social behaviors out of the box. Featured on IEEE Spectrum's Video Friday, Sprout is being used by developers, enterprises, and researchers to build next-generation robotics applications.
Contact sales (Creator Edition…
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Ghost Robotics' Vision 60 is the world's most adaptable Quadrupedal Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV), built for defense, public safety, and commercial applications. Founded in 2014 by Gavin Kenneally and Avik De out of the University of Pennsylvania, Ghost Robotics deployed the first base security robot at Tyndall Air Force Base. The Vision 60 features a modular design with quick-swap sub-assemblies for field repair, IP67 all-weather protection, and operates from -40°C to 55°C. Its open architecture supports manipulator arms, CBRN sensors, LiDAR, and security payloads. Used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, military bases, and industrial inspection teams worldwide. The company has grown to 60+ employees and is expanding into commercial markets.
Enterprise/defense pricing (contact…
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
NASA's R5 Valkyrie is an entirely electric humanoid robot designed and built at the Johnson Space Center for the 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge. Named after a figure from Norse mythology, it was built to operate in degraded or damaged human-engineered environments — with the long-term goal of supporting future space missions, either preparing sites before human arrival or assisting crews on other planets. Valkyrie has 44 degrees of freedom, including a 7-DOF arm on each side and simplified hands with 3 fingers and a thumb. The head sits on a 3-DOF neck with a Carnegie Robotics Multisense SL sensor (stereo, laser, IR structured light) plus fore and aft hazard cameras in the torso. After the DRC Trials, NASA provided units to MIT and Northeastern University with $500,000 each in funding for further research.
Research platform (not commercially…
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Richtech Robotics' AI-powered dual-arm robot designed for beverage service — bartending, barista coffee, and boba tea. ADAM is commercially deployed at venues including NVIDIA headquarters and Google Cloud Next events. The robot uses AI for personalized customer interaction and drink recommendations, with two agile arms for complex recipes. Richtech Robotics (NASDAQ: RR) is based in Las Vegas and partners with NVIDIA through the NVIDIA Connect program.
Contact sales (lease or purchase)
Active in the catalog with enough detail to review immediately.
Tesla's second-generation humanoid robot. Currently in internal deployment at Tesla factories. No consumer sales or pre-orders available. Musk has stated a target price of ~$30,000.
Estimated ~$30,000 (Musk's stated…
Useful for roadmap scanning, not yet a clean near-term shortlist.
Tesla's first-generation humanoid robot prototype, also known as Tesla Bot. Unveiled at AI Day in September 2022, it demonstrated basic walking and arm movements. Controlled by the same AI system Tesla developed for its Autopilot driver-assistance technology. Linear actuators use planetary roller screw technology for high force density during walking. The Gen 1 prototype was a proof of concept that led to the more refined Gen 2 (December 2023) and the Optimus currently in limited production at Tesla factories.
Not yet available for purchase (Musk…
Best treated as an exploratory lead until field readiness improves.
Figure AI's second-generation humanoid robot, unveiled August 6, 2024. Built for industrial deployment with integrated cabling, torso-mounted battery, and 3x the onboard AI compute of its predecessor. Deployed at BMW's Spartanburg plant where it contributed to the production of over 30,000 cars across 1,250+ hours of runtime. Officially retired following the launch of Figure 03 in October 2025.
Not publicly priced (commercial/industri…
Reference model for historical context and vendor lineage.
The first humanoid robot sent to space. Developed jointly by NASA and General Motors, Robonaut 2 (R2) arrived at the International Space Station aboard STS-133 in February 2011. Designed to work alongside astronauts using the same tools they use, R2 features dexterous five-fingered hands with 12 degrees of freedom each. It operated on the ISS until 2018 when it was returned to Earth for repairs. As of 2024, R2 is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Research project (not for sale)
Reference model for historical context and vendor lineage.
Ranked signals and price structure replace the old sprawling chip walls so the data reads faster on both mobile and desktop.
| # | Name | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IMU | 6 · 38% |
| 2 | Force/Torque Sensors | 4 · 25% |
| 3 | LiDAR | 3 · 19% |
| 4 | Force Sensors | 2 · 13% |
| 5 | Infrared Ground Sensor | 2 · 13% |
| 6 | Laser Ground Sensor | 2 · 13% |
| # | Name | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wi-Fi | 12 · 75% |
| 2 | Ethernet | 9 · 56% |
| 3 | Bluetooth | 5 · 31% |
| # | Name | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autonomous Navigation | 4 · 25% |
| 2 | Bipedal Walking | 4 · 25% |
| 3 | Object Manipulation | 3 · 19% |
| 4 | Fleet Management (via Orbit) | 2 · 13% |
| 5 | Manufacturing Tasks | 2 · 13% |
| 6 | Safe Human Interaction | 2 · 13% |
2 priced of 16 total · 14 pricing TBD
| # | Name | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Active | 12 · 75% |
| 2 | Discontinued | 2 · 13% |
| 3 | Development | 1 · 6% |
| 4 | Prototype | 1 · 6% |
Use peer routes to widen discovery only when they genuinely add more depth or a different market shape.
Decision lens
Use peer routes to add meaningful category overlap, more manufacturer breadth, or a noticeably different price posture. If the current route already answers those questions, wider browsing usually adds noise faster than it adds signal.
Catalog rank
#3
Share of tracked robots
8%
Avg shared categories
1.8
What to watch
Stay here when
You already have enough mature candidates, enough manufacturer depth, and enough price visibility to build a shortlist.
Compare outward when
The route is thin in your target category, clustered around one maker, or clearly skewed toward missing prices.
Best next click
Open the peer that changes the search shape the most — not just the next biggest route by raw robot count.
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This route is a structured view of ui44 dataset entries whose manufacturer headquarters label maps to USA. The numbers on the page are generated from the catalog itself, not from outside shipment estimates or broad market-share reports. In practice, that means the route is best used for discovery and shortlisting inside this database: how many manufacturers are represented, how many robots are listed, which categories appear most often, and which lifecycle statuses show up across those records. It is useful because it compresses search time, but it should not be treated as proof that USA leads the global robotics market in absolute terms.
Not by itself. A higher count here only indicates stronger representation in the ui44 catalog. It does not automatically prove global production leadership, deployment leadership, or shipment volume across every region. The practical value is relative orientation: if USA has more entries than another country route in this catalog, you have a broader internal shortlisting surface to explore before you need outside research. Treat the count as a catalog-depth signal, then validate market importance with model-level evidence, current vendor activity, and real deployment references.
Treat status as sequencing guidance, not as a final procurement verdict. Available and Active entries are usually the fastest starting points for near-term pilots because they suggest a model is already sold, deployed, or at least commercially surfaced. Pre-order, Development, and Prototype entries are still useful, but they belong in roadmap scanning and innovation watchlists until a team confirms delivery timing, documentation depth, and support coverage. A strong evaluation flow is to sort the shortlist by status first, then request fresh technical and commercial documents before a model moves into budget planning.
Many robotics vendors publish capabilities without publishing a universal list price. Enterprise and service robots often depend on integration scope, software packages, service bundles, deployment country, or support contract terms. For that reason, a missing price should be read as “not publicly listed in this record”, not as “cheap,” “premium,” or “not for sale.” When a route contains many unpriced entries, the next step is usually a normalized quote request. Ask each vendor for the same structure — hardware, accessories, onboarding, software, maintenance, and training — so the comparison stays apples to apples.
Yes. The route is useful because it compresses a large amount of catalog coverage into a cleaner planning sequence. Start with category concentration to see where the route is deepest, then use the robot cards to understand maturity and price posture, and then branch into manufacturer pages for documentation depth and product-family context. That path lets a team move from broad market scanning to a more disciplined shortlist without losing the reason each candidate advanced. It is not a substitute for pilots, but it is a strong way to reduce search time before pilots begin.
A practical stack is: (1) robot count share, (2) manufacturer count, (3) category overlap, and (4) price posture. This avoids over-indexing on a single number. A country can have a large catalog footprint and still be narrow in category variety, or it can have strong overlap with USA but a much smaller pool of vendors. The peer-country table on this page is built for exactly that question: when is the current route enough, and when does a second country route add real search value? The answer should always be based on overlap and options, not on raw count alone.
Use the manufacturer links as a decision funnel. First, eliminate makers whose categories clearly do not fit your target workflow. Second, prioritize makers with model statuses aligned to your timeline. Third, inspect documentation depth on the manufacturer route: number of tracked robots, link quality, and whether the catalog shows breadth or a single flagship model. Finally, move only the strongest makers into structured outreach. That process turns a long route into a smaller, evidence-backed vendor set instead of an endless browse session.
Open peer-country routes when you need deeper category overlap, more manufacturer options, or a meaningfully different listed price profile. If the current route already covers your target workload with enough mature candidates, widening the search too early can create noise. If the route is strong in one segment but thin in another, or if the strongest candidates are clustered around a single manufacturer, that is a good signal to compare another country route before vendor outreach. The goal is not maximal browsing. The goal is enough market breadth to create a resilient shortlist.
Sensor stacks usually follow task design. Cleaning robots lean on LiDAR, vision, cliff sensing, and proximity systems to manage navigation and obstacle avoidance. Humanoid and quadruped systems tend to add richer perception, force feedback, or balance-oriented sensors. Delivery and patrol robots often mix cameras, positioning, and environmental sensing for wider-area coverage. The ranked signal tables on this route help with pattern detection, but the final evaluation should always ask whether a sensor suite matches your environment: indoor versus outdoor use, lighting conditions, floor changes, obstacle density, and how much autonomy you actually expect on day one.
Most modern robots expose Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth as baseline options, while higher-end systems may add cellular links, more advanced fleet connectivity, or integration-specific interfaces. The important question is not whether a connectivity term appears in the catalog; it is whether that connectivity fits your security policy, latency needs, facility coverage, and support model. For teams in enterprise or regulated environments, network segmentation, update policy, remote diagnostics, and account governance often matter more than the presence of a single radio standard. Treat connectivity labels as a starting filter, then verify integration details directly on the robot page and with the vendor.
Total cost of ownership is usually far larger than base hardware price. A good TCO model includes integration engineering, onboarding, operator training, software fees, consumables, replacement parts, maintenance windows, and downtime risk. For larger deployments, it may also include facility changes, charging infrastructure, support response commitments, or workflow redesign. The value of this route is that it helps you compare the catalog’s listed price posture quickly, but budgeting should never stop there. Normalize every quote into the same cost structure before ranking vendors, especially when some models publish price and others do not.
AI matters most when it improves a task in a way your team can actually verify. In practice, that may mean navigation quality, better object handling, stronger voice interaction, more resilient path planning, or better adaptation to changing environments. Some vendors push more on-device intelligence, while others rely on cloud services for heavier processing. The core buying question is not whether “AI” appears in the marketing copy; it is whether the implementation matches your latency expectations, privacy requirements, connectivity assumptions, and failure handling model. Use AI claims as a hypothesis generator, not as a substitute for proofs during pilot work.
Not necessarily. In this project, the country route is driven by the manufacturer headquarters label used for catalog organization. Manufacturing, integration, and service footprints can span several regions, and those realities do not always map cleanly to a single headquarters country. That means this route is excellent for navigation and initial analysis, but it is not enough for supply-chain, compliance, or local-service decisions. If geography matters for your deployment, verify model-level sourcing, support region, and service coverage directly with the vendor before committing budget.
Low representation is still meaningful. It may signal a narrow route with a small but relevant set of candidates, or it may indicate that the strongest options for your use case live somewhere else in the catalog. In those cases, use the current route for orientation, then widen the shortlist through category pages, manufacturer pages, and peer-country comparisons. The important thing is to keep the original reason for the search intact. A smaller route is not useless; it simply changes how quickly you should branch into the rest of the database.
Revisit at every major decision gate: initial discovery, post-RFI narrowing, and pre-pilot signoff. Country routes are especially useful for spotting newly represented manufacturers, new models, or lifecycle changes that can change the shortlist after the first pass. That cadence helps teams avoid stale screenshots, old notes, or memory-driven assumptions. A route review does not need to be long. It just needs to be consistent enough that the shortlist reflects the current catalog rather than a one-time snapshot taken weeks earlier.
The common mistake is treating country rank as a substitute for fit. A country can look strong by count and still be a poor match for your workload, budget, support constraints, or deployment environment. The better sequence is layered: use the country route for orientation, manufacturer and category routes for narrowing, robot detail pages for proof, and pilot work for final selection. That keeps the process fast without allowing a high-level catalog signal to overpower the operational reality of the deployment.