HUMANOID REALITY INDEX / There's A Robot For That

Last verified 2026-07-31
Index / Humanoid robots for research and universities

Humanoid robots built for labs

The largest share of humanoids sold today goes to universities, research institutions and developers. TIME puts that figure at 74 percent for Unitree alone. These are the platforms whose evidence sits in that world.

14robots on this page
104dated events behind them
0deployment-class events
3with a published price
T2 PILOTING
Unitree G1Unitree Robotics 2026-07-15The G1 was used in remote teleoperation experiments for laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedures in live porcine models. arcweb.com Research and education · TIME reports 74 percent of Unitree humanoid sales go to universities, research institutions and developers; the G1 ledger is dominated by lab work, demos and one police pilot.
$13,50012 pilot · 54 events
T2 PILOTING
Booster T1Booster Robotics 2026-07-15Tsinghua University's THU Huoshen team retained its RoboCup 2026 Humanoid League title in South Korea using the Booster T1, taking back-to-back championships. interestingengineering.com Research and education · Universities and competition teams are the confirmed users; Tsinghua won RoboCup on this hardware.
no published price1 pilot · 5 events
T2 PILOTING
Galaxea R1Galaxea AI 2026-02-11Galaxea closed an RMB 1 billion Series B round at an RMB 10 billion valuation. autonews.gasgoo.com Research and education · The named users are Physical Intelligence and Stanford, training the robot on household tasks in a lab context.
no published price1 pilot · 4 events
T3 DEMOING
Unitree H1Unitree Robotics 2026-05-01The H1 flagship model performed a Kung Fu demonstration at China's Spring Festival Gala in February. cnbc.com Research and education · Sold to research institutions and shown at conferences; no external deployment.
$90,0000 claims only · 9 events
T3 DEMOING
Qinglong (OpenLoong)Shanghai Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center 2025-11-15A peer-reviewed paper documented the open-source Loong/Qinglong full-size platform (Biomimetics 10(11):745); mdpi.com Research and education · Open-source, full-size reference platform for embodied-AI research and developer training; no commercial customer exists.
no published price0 claims only · 4 events
T3 DEMOING
LimX OliLimX Dynamics 2026-02-06Zhang demonstrated Oli climbing stairs on site and said LimX will support customers who deploy in factories but will not pursue factory work itself. kr-asia.com Research and education · Sold as an embodied-AI development platform with SDK; the founder says LimX will not pursue factory deployment itself.
no published price2 claims only · 4 events
T3 DEMOING
Tiangong UltraBeijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics 2026-04-19At the second Beijing E-Town half-marathon a German team raced the Tiangong Ultra in collaboration with UBTech; globaltimes.cn Research and education · A state-backed platform whose public record is races and games rather than customers.
no published price0 claims only · 3 events
T3 DEMOING
Unitree H2Unitree Robotics 2026-07-23The H2 performed at Unitree's headquarters during TIME's reporting visit. time.com Research and education · Nvidia fitted Jetson Thor into the H2 for sale to research institutions.
no published price3 claims only · 4 events
T3 DEMOING
Clone AlphaClone Robotics 2026-02-04New footage showed the Protoclone flexing about 1,000 artificial muscles. supercarblondie.com Research and education · The record is anatomy research on video: synthetic muscles, bench-mounted torsos, no task work.
no published price0 claims only · 3 events
T3 DEMOING
Noetix N2Noetix Robotics 2025-10-22SCMP reported the N2 had logged more than 2,500 orders to date, a figure mixing firm and intent orders. scmp.com Research and education · Education, developer and exhibition buyers lead the demand evidence; the company cites school orders as a lead segment without naming buyers.
no published price2 claims only · 4 events
T3 DEMOING
PAL KangarooPAL Robotics 2026-06-01Kangaroo, PAL's next-generation humanoid after TALOS, is described as commercially available in an independent supplier case study. advancednavigation.com Research and education · Sold to research institutions for locomotion and embodied-AI work.
no published price1 claims only · 3 events
T3 DEMOING
Unitree R1Unitree Robotics 2025-10-09TIME named the Unitree R1 one of the best inventions of 2025. time.com Research and education · A sub-6,000-dollar developer and enthusiast platform; TIME named it a best invention of 2025.
$5,900 / $4,900 AIR2 claims only · 3 events
T3 DEMOING
Fauna SproutFauna Robotics 2026-03-24Fauna launched Sprout, a 50,000 USD bipedal humanoid (3ft6, 50lb) shipping to developers; on the same day Amazon confirmed it had acquired Fauna Robotics. cnbc.com Research and education · Shipping to developers at a developer price point.
no published price0 claims only · 1 events
T3 DEMOING
K-Scale K-BotK-Scale Labs 2026-03-02K-Scale's former COO published a post-mortem on watching the startup die from the inside; therobotreport.com Research and education · An open-source developer platform; the company shut down in early 2026.
no published price1 claims only · 3 events
Tiers and scores are computed from the evidence ledger, not supplied by makers. The use case under each robot is derived from what the evidence shows it doing, not from the maker's positioning. Coverage note: my source base is dominated by English-language reporting, which systematically under-covers Chinese makers; where that distorts a ranking, the robot's own page says so.

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