How many humanoid robots are there in the world?
How many humanoid robot models exist, where they come from, how many you can order and at what price, and what makers say they have sold, with sources.
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After reading this article you will be able to:
- Tell the number of humanoid robot models apart from the number of robots built or sold
- Say how many humanoid models can be ordered, from which countries and in which price range
- Read a maker's sales figure for what it is: the company's own claim, with its date
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On this page
- How many humanoid robot models are there?
- Which countries make humanoid robots?
- How many can you actually buy, and what do they cost?
- What are they built for?
- How many humanoid robots have been sold or delivered?
- How do humanoids compare with industrial robots?
- How we count
- Where to go next
- Common questions
On 10 November 2026 the site’s humanoid robot tracker lists 101 humanoid robot models from 12 countries, 74 of them from China. Of those, 41 can be ordered from their makers, mostly through a sales form and for businesses, labs and developers, and 13 have reached paying customers, according to their makers. How many humanoid robots exist in total, as machines built and working, nobody publishes: only a few makers say how many they have sold.
Keep two numbers apart. Models are the different robots on the market or announced, such as Unitree’s G1 or Tesla’s Optimus. Units are the individual machines built or sold. The tracker counts models; units come only from what makers and governments report.
How many humanoid robot models are there?
The tracker gives every model one status, and every status needs a source: the maker’s announcement, its order page, a filing or a release that says customers received the robot.
| Status | What it means | Models |
|---|---|---|
| On sale | Anyone can order it from the maker, in a shop or through a sales or quote form | 41 |
| Announced | The maker has shown it, but you cannot order it | 32 |
| Shipping to customers | The maker or a filing says paying customers have received units | 13 |
| Pilots only | It works in trials at the maker’s or a customer’s site, not for sale | 9 |
| Pre-order | The maker takes a deposit or a reservation | 5 |
| Discontinued | The maker has stopped selling or developing it | 1 |
| Total | 101 |
Counted on 10 November 2026 from the tracker’s data; each robot’s status was last checked between 31 October and 7 November 2026.
Each robot has one status only, so a robot shipping to customers may still be on sale: Unitree’s G1 is marked as shipping and can still be ordered in Unitree’s shop.
Which countries make humanoid robots?
| Country of the maker’s headquarters | Models | Share |
|---|---|---|
| China | 74 | 73% |
| United States | 13 | 13% |
| Germany | 3 | 3% |
| Spain | 3 | 3% |
| Australia, Canada, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom | 1 each, 8 in all | 8% |
| Total | 101 | 100% |
Counted on 10 November 2026 from the tracker’s data; shares rounded to the nearest whole number.
About three in four models come from Chinese makers, and so do most of the robots you can actually get: 36 of the 41 on sale and 11 of the 13 shipping to customers. Of the 13 US models, only one is on sale, Dexmate’s Vega 1 Pro, a wheeled platform for research labs and developers, and only one is shipping, Agility Robotics’ Digit, which companies rent as a service; the rest are in pilots, announced, on pre-order or discontinued. The country is a fact, not a judgment on the robot. Chinese humanoid robots covers the Chinese makers.
How many can you actually buy, and what do they cost?
Being on sale does not mean having a price. Of the 101 models, 17 have a purchase price published by the maker: 11 on sale, 4 on pre-order and 2 shipping to customers. The other 30 models on sale show no public price: most are sold through a quote or sales form.
| Lowest listed price, as an indicative euro estimate | Models |
|---|---|
| Under €10,000 | 4 |
| €10,000 to €29,999 | 9 |
| €30,000 to €59,999 | 3 |
| €60,000 or more | 1 |
| Models with a public price | 17 |
Prices as listed in the tracker, read on the makers’ own sites between 31 October and 7 November 2026. Method: the maker’s lowest purchase price converted at the ECB euro reference rate of the day of the check, plus Italy’s 22% VAT when the maker’s price excludes tax, rounded to the nearest hundred euros; it is an estimate, not an Italian price, and shipping and duties are extra.
The cheapest walking humanoid with a public price is Unitree’s R1, listed on unitree.com on 10 November 2026 at $4,900 for the R1 Air, tax and shipping excluded. The only model above €60,000 is NEURA Robotics’ 4NE1, which NEURA’s reservation page gave on 10 November 2026 at an estimated €98,000 per unit for one to 19 units, “excluding taxes and shipping”.
Delivery to Europe is the other gap. For one model, Elephant Robotics’ Mercury X1, the maker’s shop lists shipping rates to Europe, with duties and taxes paid by the buyer. For its NEO, 1X’s order page says deliveries begin in the US and “International deliveries will commence later”. For the other 99 models the maker does not say.
What are they built for?
| Use stated by the maker | Models |
|---|---|
| Industry | 29 |
| General purpose | 24 |
| Research and education | 23 |
| Commercial (shops and services) | 20 |
| Home | 5 |
Counted on 10 November 2026 from the tracker’s data, by the main use each maker states.
Only 5 of 101 models are presented mainly for the home. 1X’s NEO, sold for chores, and StarBot’s Spark, a companion and learning robot, are US pre-orders; AiMOGA’s Mobo is announced; Booster’s K1, a school robot with a family companion edition, is on sale in China; and Noetix says it has handed its small Bumi to buyers. None is a household helper you can order and receive today.
By shape, 69 models walk on legs, 29 put a human-like upper body on a wheeled base, and 3 combine legs and wheels.
How many humanoid robots have been sold or delivered?
Only the figures a maker states in its own documents can be given, and each is the company’s claim, not an independent count.
| Maker | What the maker reports | Period | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unitree (China) | 5,716 humanoids produced, 5,511 shipped and 5,215 sold, all models | 2025 | IPO prospectus, 14 Aug 2026 | Company data |
| UBTech (China) | 1,079 full-size humanoids sold | 2025 | Annual results, Hong Kong, 31 Mar 2026 | Company data |
| UBTech (China) | 921 full-size humanoids sold | First half of 2026 | Interim results, Hong Kong, 28 Aug 2026 | Company data |
| AgiBot (China) | More than a thousand A2 units delivered at scale («超千台规模化交付») | Total to date, no date given | A2 product page, read 10 Nov 2026 | Company data |
Unitree’s prospectus explains why it shipped more robots than it sold: some had been shipped but were not yet signed for or accepted by the customer at the end of the year, so they were not yet counted as sold.
Most makers give no unit count. Agility said on 26 October 2026 that Digit had moved more than 100,000 totes at a GXO warehouse, without saying how many robots work there. 1X wrote on 30 April 2026 that it had booked a year of production, “10,000 NEOs”, in five days: reservations, not deliveries, and 1X had announced no delivery to a home by 10 November. Tesla’s Q3 2026 update says “Optimus production began in Fremont”, but Tesla takes no orders. 1X NEO explained and Tesla Optimus explained follow both.
The largest figure is a government one. On 19 October 2026 China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that Chinese humanoid products passed 400 models in the first half of 2026, with output above 40,000 units, and expected more than 100,000 units for the full year. That counts robots produced, not sold or in use, and the 100,000 is a forecast.
So the honest answer to “how many exist” is a set of partial counts. Adding them up would mix robots produced, shipped, sold and delivered, over different periods, and would still miss every maker that publishes nothing.
How do humanoids compare with industrial robots?
Industrial robots are counted every year; humanoids are not yet. The International Federation of Robotics reported on 24 September 2026 that the “global operational stock of industrial robots surged 9% to a record 5 million units in 2025”, meaning the industrial robots in operation in factories worldwide. No comparable world count of humanoids exists, and the largest yearly sales any humanoid maker reports, above, are in the thousands.
How we count
- What counts as a humanoid. A robot with a human-like upper body, meaning a torso, two arms and a head, on legs or on a wheeled base, that its maker presents as a humanoid. Robot dogs and single robot arms stay out.
- Proof for each status. A dated source from the maker, a filing or a named customer. A delivery promise or a factory video does not make a robot “shipping”, and a demo video, which may involve a person steering the robot remotely (teleoperation), proves nothing about sales.
- Date and data. Every count here was made on 10 November 2026 from the tracker’s data, which can be downloaded as a CSV file from its “About the data” section. Robots added later wait for the next recount.
- Updates. The tracker is rechecked at the start of each month, and this page is recounted after it.
- Limits. The tracker lists the humanoids we could find, not every model in the world: China’s ministry alone counts more than 400.
Where to go next
- The humanoid robot tracker has every model behind these counts, with its status, price and sources.
- Humanoid robots: the complete guide explains what humanoids can do today and when they may reach homes.
- Can you buy a humanoid robot for your home? looks at the models you can order and what they really cost in euros.
- For counts of connected devices rather than robots, see IoT statistics.
Common questions
How many humanoid robots does China have?
On 10 November 2026, 74 of the 101 models in the site's tracker come from Chinese makers. China's own count is larger: on 19 October 2026 the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Chinese humanoid products passed 400 models in the first half of 2026, with output above 40,000 units, and expected more than 100,000 units for the full year. Those are production figures and a forecast, not a count of robots sold or in use.
How many humanoid robots have been sold?
Nobody publishes a worldwide total. A few makers report their own sales: Unitree says it sold 5,215 humanoids in 2025, and UBTech reports 1,079 full-size humanoids sold in 2025 and 921 in the first half of 2026. Most other makers give no unit count, so any world total would be a guess.
How many humanoid robots will there be by 2030?
No one can say yet. Banks and consultancies publish forecasts, but they are estimates built on their own assumptions, and many sit in paid reports, so this page does not quote them as data. The nearest official figure is a forecast for one year: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expected Chinese output to pass 100,000 units in 2026.
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