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Every humanoid maker documents differently — Unitree publishes a full developer portal, most others publish nothing at all. These brand hubs collect each manufacturer's models, say honestly what documentation exists, and track what doesn't.

Hangzhou, China

Unitree

The best-documented humanoid maker in the world

Unitree Robotics, founded in Hangzhou in 2016 by Wang Xingxing, started with quadruped robots — the Laikago, Go1, Go2, and the industrial B2 — before moving into full-size humanoids with the H1 in 2023 and the compact G1 after it. That quadruped lineage matters: years of shipping legged robots gave Unitree a mature actuator supply chain and, unusually for the industry, a real documentation culture.

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Sunnyvale, California

Figure

Enterprise humanoids, deployed in real factories

Figure AI was founded in Sunnyvale in 2022 by Brett Adcock with a single bet: humanoids that do useful work in real workplaces. Its second-generation robot, the Figure 02, has been deployed in enterprise pilots — most visibly at BMW manufacturing facilities — putting Figure among the first companies with humanoids doing shifts outside a lab.

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Shanghai, China

Agibot

Zhiyuan Robotics' full-size humanoid

Agibot is the international brand of Zhiyuan Robotics, the Shanghai humanoid company founded in 2023 by Peng Zhihui. Its Raise A2 is a full-size humanoid aimed at enterprise and research deployments, part of a crowded and fast-moving Chinese humanoid field.

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Moss, Norway / Palo Alto, California

1X

The home humanoid, in limited beta

1X Technologies began life in Norway in 2014 as Halodi Robotics, spent years on wheeled humanoid platforms, and is now building Neo — a humanoid designed specifically for the home. Neo is in limited home beta: real houses, real early users, but not a product you can buy off the shelf yet.

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Shanghai, China

Fourier

From rehab robotics to full-size humanoids

Fourier Intelligence of Shanghai comes from rehabilitation robotics — exoskeletons and rehab devices — which shaped the GR-1, its full-size humanoid (≈1.65 m, ≈55 kg) aimed at research and care applications. That background shows in a design philosophy oriented around safe human interaction.

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Austin, Texas

Apptronik

Austin-built humanoids for enterprise pilots

Apptronik spun out of the University of Texas at Austin's Human Centered Robotics Lab in 2016 and spent years building custom robots — including NASA's Valkyrie work — before launching Apollo, its ≈1.73 m humanoid with a ≈25 kg payload, aimed at logistics and manufacturing.

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Austin, Texas

Tesla

Optimus: still in development

Tesla's Optimus is the most watched humanoid that you cannot buy. Tesla shares progress through official presentations and announcements, but the robot is not commercially available and no manual exists — there is simply nothing to document yet.

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Shenzhen, China

EngineAI

Shenzhen's open-source-leaning humanoid

EngineAI is a Shenzhen robotics company whose PM01 humanoid (1.38 m, 24 degrees of freedom, 2 m/s top speed) leans open-source — an unusual and welcome posture in a secretive industry. It's a developer-oriented machine at a relatively accessible scale.

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China

Booster

Research humanoids with a real support portal

Booster Robotics builds humanoid platforms popular with researchers, educators, and RoboCup teams — the T1/K1 line is a familiar sight in university labs. It's a working-researcher brand rather than a consumer one.

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Guangzhou, China

XPeng

The EV maker betting on humanoids

XPeng is best known as an electric-vehicle maker, but its ambitions run through 'Physical AI' — and the Iron humanoid is the center of that bet. Iron is still pre-production, with the company targeting a commercial launch in 2027.

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