The state of humanoid robots, 2026

A lifecycle stage is only shown when a source states it. Prototype leads with 10, and the other 17 robots with a stated stage are spread across 6 further stages: General availability 4, Preorder 4, R&D 4, Mass production 3, Announced 1 and Early access 1. 4 robots publish no lifecycle stage at all, which is why the bars add up to 27 rather than 31. The bars are read against the whole catalogue, so a bar's length is that stage's share of all 31 robots.

Counted on the country a source names as the robot's design origin, not its place of assembly — a separate measurement with thinner coverage. 20 of 31 are designed in China, more than every other country put together; the other 6 countries account for 11.

Locomotion is the one facet this site treats as a hard boundary: a compare table only ever puts two robots of the same class side by side, because a walking speed and a wheeled base are not the same measurement. The split is Bipedal 19 and Wheeled 12, and a robot whose locomotion no source states appears in neither bar.

A robot may be stated for several uses, so these bars sum to more than 31. The count unions the application classes a source lists with the user type it states — the same union the use hubs and the browse filter read, so the three cannot disagree about who belongs where.

31 robots publish a height, with a median of 166 cm — within a few centimetres of an adult. The span in the heading is the lowest figure published to the highest, and one robot publishes a range rather than a single figure, so its top end sets that upper limit. The bands below are 20 cm wide and place each robot at the first number its own page prints, so an adjustable robot sits at its lowest height; the highlighted band is the one the median falls in.

A price is published for 29 of 31 robots, and only 5 of those figures appear on a maker's own page — the rest are reported by third-party directories, which is why every price on this site carries a chip saying who stated it and whether it is a list price, a report or an estimate. No currency is converted: a figure not published in US dollars is not published here.

This is a measure of disclosure, not of the robots: it counts how many of the 195 specifications this site tracks have at least one sourced value. The best-documented robot publishes 104 and the thinnest 42; across the catalogue 1,967 of a possible 6,045 are filled, or 33%.

The other way round: of the 195 measurements in this site's registry, 167 are published by at least one robot and 28 by none at all. The gap is vendor silence rather than a gap in the pipeline — the groups furthest down this list are the ones makers do not describe, and the bars show how many of each group's keys anybody publishes.

Of 7,925 sourced statements, 1,436 were read from a page belonging to the robot's own maker and the rest from third-party directories. Where a maker and a directory disagree the maker's figure is the one this site publishes, and the other is kept and shown beside it rather than discarded.

Botlero measures nothing itself and has no laboratory: a value here is proof that a page said it, on a page about that robot, not proof that it is true. No value in the catalogue has been independently measured or filed with a regulator — every number is a claim by a maker or by a directory, and the chip beside it says which.

Every value is traceable to the page it was read from, so the catalogue can be counted by source. 45 distinct websites are cited across 7,925 statements; the ten most-cited are below. A maker's own domain and a third-party directory are both ordinary rows here — what separates them on a robot's page is the chip, not the count.

This is the number no other directory in this category can publish: on 580 of 1967 values, this site holds at least one source stating a different figure from the one it shows — a value being one robot's figure for one measurement, with 7,925 statements standing behind the 1,967 of them. Nothing is overwritten — both are kept, the stronger claim is shown, and clicking a value lists every source with its quote. The measurements that disagree most are below.

A withdrawn value is one this site stopped publishing, kept with the reason recorded at the time rather than deleted. 683 have been withdrawn across 1 month; every one is listed, with its reason, on corrections.

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