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The Humanoid Robot Market: Who Is Funded, Who Is Shipping
The humanoid robots market in 2026: shipments, revenue, disclosed funding and delivery claims, from IDC data, company filings and the HardwareMap index.
by the HardwareMap editors4 min read
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The humanoid robots market shipped almost 25,000 units in the first half of 2026 by IDC's count, most of them built and bought in China, while most private capital went to American makers. This note sets the shipment data beside the funding recorded for the 9 humanoid makers in the HardwareMap index, REV 26.09. The company roster is on the humanoid robot companies list.
Every figure below carries its source and date. Index figures are labelled REV 26.09. Shipment and revenue figures come from IDC and company filings, not from the index.
The humanoid robots market in numbers
IDC data published on 29 September 2026:
Sources: TechNode and John Koetsier, both citing IDC. The same data puts the average selling price just under $30,000, down from about $37,000. IDC now forecasts more than 750,000 humanoid shipments a year by 2030.
Two readings follow. Volume is real but young: 25,000 units in six months is a rounding error next to industrial robot arms. And most units still go to buyers who study, train or display robots, not to production lines.
Who is funded
The index records disclosed equity raised by each humanoid maker. Totals as of REV 26.09:
Added up, the nine makers disclosed about $5.82 billion. The US makers account for about $3.54 billion of it, led by Figure AI at about $1.85 billion. Neura Robotics in Germany has disclosed about $1.66 billion. The two Chinese makers with disclosed figures, Unitree Robotics and Fourier Intelligence, total about $525 million, and UBTECH Robotics is undisclosed. Sanctuary AI in Vancouver has disclosed about $92 million.
The biggest 2026 round so far among index companies is Apptronik's $520 million Series A extension on 11 February, which took the round past $935 million (CNBC). Public markets opened too. Unitree listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on 19 August 2026, and Agility Robotics agreed on 24 June to go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, expected to bring in more than $620 million gross (Agility).
Who is shipping
Funding and shipments point in opposite directions. The makers with published unit counts:
- Unitree reported more than 5,500 humanoids shipped in 2025 and 1.70 billion yuan of revenue, 51.78 percent from humanoids, in its prospectus (The Robot Report).
- Figure reported more than 350 Figure 03 units built and a rate of one per hour at its BotQ line on 29 April 2026 (Figure). Figure 03 started work at BMW Plant Spartanburg on 30 June 2026.
- Agility reported Digit at nine customer sites, more than 65,000 operating hours and $1.8 million of 2025 net sales in its merger filings (The Robot Report).
1X Technologies, Apptronik, Neura, Sanctuary and Fourier do not publish shipment counts. That is not proof of zero; it means the index cannot rank them on volume. The Chinese humanoid robots list covers the unit leaders in more detail.
Why the money and the units diverge
Three things explain why the best-funded makers are not the volume leaders.
Different buyers. A research lab or a university buys a robot off a price list and takes delivery in weeks. A carmaker or a logistics operator runs a pilot at one site, measures it against a human shift and signs a multi-year contract only if the numbers hold. Chinese makers sell heavily into the first group; most US makers in the index are selling into the second. The second group buys fewer units per year but pays for uptime over years.
Capital goes into factories and compute first. Figure built its BotQ line before it had volume demand to fill it. 1X stood up a 58,000 sq ft factory in Hayward, California, and says it can scale toward 100,000 units a year by the end of 2027. On 3 September 2026 Figure signed with Nscale for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to train its models (Figure). These are bets on future volume, paid for in advance.
Cost of the parts. Actuators, reducers, battery packs and sensors dominate a humanoid's bill of materials. Chinese makers buy most of them from suppliers nearby, which shows up in the listed prices and in IDC's falling average selling price. For founders, the bill of materials example shows how to lay that cost out line by line.
The result is a market where unit share and capital share sit in different countries. Whether that holds depends on whether paid industrial deployments grow faster than research sales. The index will show it first in status and stage changes.
When humanoid robots will be available
These are claims, recorded with who made them and when.
Prices are scarce. Unitree's G1 launched at $16,000est. 1X lists NEO at $20,000, or $499 a monthest. Industrial makers mostly sell on multi-year contracts, often billed as a service. Agility says it holds more than $300 million in multi-year Digit 5 orders. Founders pricing their own robot should start from the parts: see hardware unit economics.
For each new launch, listing and order as it happens, see the humanoid robots changelog.
Continue with Humanoid Robots for Sale: What You Can Actually Buy and What It Costs.
Frequently asked questions
How big is the humanoid robot market?
IDC counted almost 25,000 humanoid robots shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026, with revenue above $740 million, up 432 percent and 323 percent year on year. That is small next to industrial robot arms. IDC forecasts more than 750,000 humanoid shipments a year by 2030, a forecast it raised in September 2026.
When will humanoid robots be available to buy?
Some already are. Unitree sells its G1 to labs and developers at a listed price. 1X says first NEO home robots ship to customers in 2026, at $20,000 or $499 a month. Agility plans early access to Digit 5 in the first half of 2027 and general availability by the end of 2027. Those are company claims, dated when made.
Which humanoid robot company has raised the most money?
In the HardwareMap index, Figure AI has the largest disclosed raise among humanoid makers at about $1.85 billion, followed by Neura Robotics at about $1.66 billion and Apptronik at about $968 million. Raised means disclosed equity rounds only. UBTECH's private funding is undisclosed, and public listings are not counted as private raises.
Are humanoid robots making money yet?
A few are, at small scale. Unitree reported 1.70 billion yuan of 2025 revenue, about half from humanoids. Agility's merger filings show $1.8 million of 2025 net sales against a $140 million operating loss. Most other makers do not publish revenue. The market is funded by investors well ahead of sales.
Are there humanoid military robots?
None of the humanoid makers in the HardwareMap index sells a military humanoid, and none lists defense as a target market. Their stated customers are factories, warehouses, research labs and homes. Military robotics in the index is legged, tracked, wheeled or airborne, and sits in the defense category with drones and autonomous systems.
HardwareMap records the humanoid robot market company by company. Open any maker above for its datasheet: stage, disclosed raise, team and status.
The index
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