Humanoid robots for research

Popular mid-size research humanoid.

Height (cm)

132 cm

Weight (kg)

35 kg

Degrees of freedom

23

Payload (kg)

3 kg

Full-size research humanoid.

Height (cm)

181 cm

Weight (kg)

70 kg

Degrees of freedom

31

Payload (kg)

—

RoboCup-winning competition humanoid.

Height (cm)

118 cm

Weight (kg)

30 kg

Degrees of freedom

23

Payload (kg)

—

Full-size humanoid with a clinical research focus.

Height (cm)

165 cm

Weight (kg)

71 kg

Degrees of freedom

55

Payload (kg)

3 kg

Full-size biped for locomotion research.

Height (cm)

165 cm

Weight (kg)

55 kg

Degrees of freedom

31

Payload (kg)

—

Mass-produced commercial humanoid.

Height (cm)

173 cm

Weight (kg)

63.5 kg

Degrees of freedom

29

Payload (kg)

20 kg

Consumer home humanoid with a soft, tendon-driven body.

Height (cm)

165 cm

Weight (kg)

30 kg

Degrees of freedom

—

Payload (kg)

—

European-made social humanoid for healthcare and reception.

Height (cm)

165 cm

Weight (kg)

40 kg

Degrees of freedom

—

Payload (kg)

—

Fast full-size research biped; held a 3.3 m/s humanoid speed record.

Height (cm)

180 cm

Weight (kg)

47 kg

Degrees of freedom

27

Payload (kg)

7 kg

First-gen full-size humanoid with a rehab-clinic distribution channel.

Height (cm)

165 cm

Weight (kg)

55 kg

Degrees of freedom

40

Payload (kg)

3 kg

Research/industrial base platform with a swappable battery.

Height (cm)

175 cm

Weight (kg)

63 kg

Degrees of freedom

53

Payload (kg)

3 kg

High-biomimetic QDD-actuated full-size biped.

Height (cm)

167 cm

Weight (kg)

62 kg

Degrees of freedom

41

Payload (kg)

—

Fast-running full-size humanoid with a modular architecture.

Height (cm)

171 cm

Weight (kg)

65 kg

Degrees of freedom

55

Payload (kg)

20 kg

Xiaomi's demonstrator humanoid with emotion recognition.

Height (cm)

177 cm

Weight (kg)

52 kg

Degrees of freedom

21

Payload (kg)

1.5 kg

Lightweight 44-DoF biped with high-torque leg joints.

Height (cm)

170 cm

Weight (kg)

48 kg

Degrees of freedom

44

Payload (kg)

5 kg

Compact €19,999 cognitive humanoid for research and education.

Height (cm)

132 cm

Weight (kg)

36 kg

Degrees of freedom

25

Payload (kg)

3 kg

Torque-controlled EU research humanoid, ROS-native.

Height (cm)

175 cm

Weight (kg)

95 kg

Degrees of freedom

32

Payload (kg)

6 kg

End-to-end AI humanoid (V3) with hot-swap batteries.

Height (cm)

175 cm

Weight (kg)

70 kg

Degrees of freedom

40

Payload (kg)

25 kg

EU-made headless dynamic-locomotion research biped.

Height (cm)

158 cm

Weight (kg)

50 kg

Degrees of freedom

14

Payload (kg)

7 kg

The Noetix N2 is a 118 cm, 30 kg bipedal humanoid from Beijing-based Noetix Robotics, billed by the company as the first humanoid capable of

Height (cm)

118 cm

Weight (kg)

30 kg

Degrees of freedom

18

Payload (kg)

5 kg

The Lingxi X1 is AgiBot's 130 cm, 33 kg full-stack open-source humanoid, with 34 active DoF, modular PowerFlow joint motors and an OmniPicke

Height (cm)

130 cm

Weight (kg)

33 kg

Degrees of freedom

34

Payload (kg)

0.5 kg

The AgiBot Genie G1 is a general-purpose wheeled humanoid from Shanghai-based AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics), designed as an embodied-AI data col

Height (cm)

180 cm

Weight (kg)

150 kg

Degrees of freedom

26

Payload (kg)

3 kg

K-Bot is a 1.4 m, 34 kg open-source bipedal humanoid from Palo Alto startup K-Scale Labs, sold to developers from $8,999 (early bird) with a

Height (cm)

140 cm

Weight (kg)

34 kg

Degrees of freedom

20

Payload (kg)

10 kg

RB-Y1 is Rainbow Robotics' dual-arm mobile manipulator: a humanoid-style upper body with two 7-DOF arms on a high-speed wheeled base with a

Height (cm)

140 cm

Weight (kg)

131 kg

Degrees of freedom

24

Payload (kg)

3 kg

CASBOT 02 is a 163 cm, 50 kg bipedal humanoid from Lingbao CASBOT (Beijing) with 275 TOPS compute, built for guidance, reception, education

Height (cm)

163 cm

Weight (kg)

50 kg

Degrees of freedom

25

Payload (kg)

1.5 kg

MagicBot Z1 is MagicLab's compact 137 cm, 40 kg high-dynamics bipedal humanoid (24 DoF standard, up to 50 on the dev edition) for research,

Height (cm)

137 cm

Weight (kg)

40 kg

Degrees of freedom

24

Payload (kg)

2 kg

Martian is UniX AI's bipedal general-purpose humanoid (148 cm, 40 kg, 4 m/s, 11-DoF dexterous hands) with fully in-house core components, op

Height (cm)

148 cm

Weight (kg)

40 kg

Degrees of freedom

31

Payload (kg)

5 kg

RobotEra Q5 is a super-anthropomorphic wheeled service humanoid (165 cm, 70 kg, 44 DoF, 10 kg single-arm payload, 4 h runtime) with 11-DoF X

Height (cm)

165 cm

Weight (kg)

70 kg

Degrees of freedom

44

Payload (kg)

10 kg

The Noetix E1 'Geek Vanguard' is a 136 cm, 40 kg bipedal humanoid positioned as a cost-effective embodied-intelligence platform with 23-28 D

Height (cm)

136 cm

Weight (kg)

40 kg

Degrees of freedom

23

Payload (kg)

5 kg

AgiBot Lingxi X2 Ultra is a 1.31 m, 39 kg interactive bipedal humanoid (30 DoF, 3 kg max payload, ~2 h swappable battery) for exhibition gui

Height (cm)

131 cm

Weight (kg)

39 kg

Degrees of freedom

30

Payload (kg)

3 kg

DexForce W1 Pro is a 163.6 cm, 110 kg wheeled humanoid with dual 7-DoF arms (10 kg per arm), 34 DoF, 1000 Hz control and >=8 h runtime for d

Height (cm)

163.6 cm

Weight (kg)

110 kg

Degrees of freedom

34

Payload (kg)

10 kg

Unitree R1-D is a dual-arm humanoid torso platform (fixed or wheeled mobile base) from $4,290, with 5/7-DoF arms, 2-4 kg arm payload, binocu

Height (cm)

160 cm

Weight (kg)

30 kg

Degrees of freedom

18

Payload (kg)

2 kg

Kengo (行客) is Galaxea Dynamics' first bipedal humanoid: 1.4 m, ~40 kg, 23+ DoF, 2 kg arm payload, 130 N·m+ joint torque and the open-sourced

Height (cm)

139.6 cm

Weight (kg)

40 kg

Degrees of freedom

23

Payload (kg)

2 kg

Booster T2 is a 1.4 m, 31-DoF bipedal embodied-AI development platform with NVIDIA Thor T5000 compute, 10 kg dual-arm payload and an open de

Height (cm)

140 cm

Weight (kg)

42 kg

Degrees of freedom

31

Payload (kg)

10 kg

Modular German service humanoid from Fraunhofer IPA/Mojin Robotics: 158 cm, 140 kg, 29 DoF, 5 kg arm payload; for retail guides, museums, de

Height (cm)

158 cm

Weight (kg)

140 kg

Degrees of freedom

29

Payload (kg)

5 kg

ROBOTIS' open-source semi-humanoid Physical AI platform (162 cm, 90 kg, 25 DOF, 3 kg per arm): dual 7-DOF arms on a swerve-drive base that l

Height (cm)

162.3 cm

Weight (kg)

90 kg

Degrees of freedom

25

Payload (kg)

3 kg

ROBOTIS AI Sapiens K0 is a 1.3 m, 34 kg fully open-source humanoid research platform (23 DOF, Dynamixel-Q QDD actuators, ROS 2) for Physical

Height (cm)

130 cm

Weight (kg)

34 kg

Degrees of freedom

23

Payload (kg)

3 kg

Entry-level open-source research biped, ≈€5,000.

Height (cm)

135 cm

Weight (kg)

40 kg

Degrees of freedom

12

Payload (kg)

—

Full-size general-purpose humanoid.

Height (cm)

171 cm

Weight (kg)

66 kg

Degrees of freedom

55

Payload (kg)

20 kg

Wheeled bimanual mobile manipulator for R&D (not a biped).

Height (cm)

170 cm

Weight (kg)

96 kg

Degrees of freedom

24

Payload (kg)

5 kg

Open-source bimanual manipulator on an omnidirectional mobile base (not a biped).

Height (cm)

—

Weight (kg)

50 kg

Degrees of freedom

17

Payload (kg)

3 kg

Tesla's general-purpose humanoid; not sold externally.

Height (cm)

173 cm

Weight (kg)

57 kg

Degrees of freedom

28

Payload (kg)

20 kg