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NEO vs AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

On DEPLOY's record, NEO is further along: at the pilot stage versus AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 at the research stage, as of 2026.

NEO has the lower recorded price.
NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 1).
NEO is at the pilot stage; AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 at the research stage.

Attribute	NEO View full model page →	AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 View full model page →
Manufacturer	1X Technologies	AgiBot
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	pilot	research
Autonomy	◐ not independently verified	◐ not independently verified
Availability	preorder-openpreorder	announced-no-dateannounced
Price	$499/month subscription (manufacturer target) or $20,000 (manufacturer target) or $499/month subscription (actual sale price) or $20,000 (actual sale price)	$44,560 (actual sale price) or $100,000-$190,000 (analyst estimate)
Capability claims	Tidies a room (teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-once) Fetches items (teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-once) Does dishes (teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated-once) Elderly assistance (teleoperated-assisted, claimed) Watches a pet (teleoperated-assisted, claimed) Prepares meals (teleoperated-assisted, claimed)	Picks and packs (claimed-only, claimed)
Brain	1X World Model (world-model) Redwood AI (foundation-model)	Genie Operator-1 (GO-1) (foundation-model)
Verified deployments	3	1AgiBot
Privacy practices	11Face blurring, Restricted zones, Session approval, data-retention, third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, data-sale, capture-indicator, bystander-recording, training-data-use, on-device-processing	—
Sources on file	34	12

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Editorial summaries

NEO

1X is the only humanoid maker in this cohort betting on the consumer market at price-of-a-car scale, distinct from the enterprise-integration contracts that define Figure, Apptronik, and Agility. The hardware is verified: NEO is a bipedal humanoid shipping to early-adopter households, backed by a Hayward, California vertical-manufacturing facility, with the wheeled EVE archived as the prior product line.

The open question is utility at scale: 1X describes home-task performance today as a mix of supervised autonomy on learned chores and remote-operator teleop on the rest, an honest framing that also signals how much of the daily-use envelope is still operator-assisted.

AgiBot Yuanzheng A2

The Yuanzheng A2 is the flagship full-size humanoid from AgiBot, an emerging Chinese manufacturer with commercial activity in China. No verified consumer price, availability, or delivery date is on record; the editorial position is honest-absence.

Common questions

How do NEO and AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 differ?

On DEPLOY's record, NEO is further along: at the pilot stage versus AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 at the research stage, as of 2026. NEO has the lower recorded price. NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 1). NEO is at the pilot stage; AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 at the research stage.

What is the difference between NEO and AgiBot Yuanzheng A2?

NEO and AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.

Which is cheaper, NEO or AgiBot Yuanzheng A2?

NEO has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than AgiBot Yuanzheng A2. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.

Is NEO or AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 more autonomous?

On the DEPLOY registry, neither NEO nor AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 has capabilities independently verified as fully autonomous yet; their recorded capabilities are teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated, or vendor-claimed. See the table for each capability's verification status.

Which has more verified deployments, NEO or AgiBot Yuanzheng A2?

NEO has more verified deployments (3) on the DEPLOY registry than AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

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