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NEO vs Apollo vs Figure 03 in 2026

Comparing 3 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Attribute	NEO View full model page →	Apollo View full model page →	Figure 03 View full model page →
Manufacturer	1X Technologies	Apptronik	Figure AI
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	pilot	commercial	commercial
Autonomy	◐ not independently verified	✓ 1 verified autonomous	◐ not independently verified
Availability	preorder-openpreorder	internal-onlyenterprise	internal-onlyenterprise
Price	$499/month subscription (manufacturer target) or $20,000 (manufacturer target) or $499/month subscription (actual sale price) or $20,000 (actual sale price)	Not announced	Not announced
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 (autonomous, verified) box unloading from trailers and containers (autonomous, claimed)	Does dishes (autonomous, demonstrated-once) Folds laundry (autonomous, demonstrated-once) Tidies a room (autonomous, demonstrated-once)
Brain	1X World Model (world-model) Redwood AI (foundation-model)	Gemini Robotics (foundation-model)	Helix (and Helix-02) (foundation-model)
Verified deployments	3	6	4
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	38	30

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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.

Apollo

Apptronik is positioning Apollo for enterprise logistics and manufacturing rather than consumer or research use. The named-operator pilots span three OEMs across automotive (Mercedes-Benz Digital Factory Berlin), contract manufacturing (Jabil), and warehouse distribution (GXO); the Jabil deployment is dual-mode, with Jabil both manufacturing Apollo for Apptronik and operating it in their own facilities.

Apptronik describes Apollo as production-ready for these contexts, but the verifiable scope is what customer publications confirm, not the breadth Apptronik claims. None of the deployments are yet at commercial scale; each is an integration pilot demonstrating fit at one site.

Figure 03

Figure 03 is the current-generation Figure humanoid, positioned by Figure for both home and commercial-integration use cases; the verified deployment record is currently single-operator at Catalyst Brands' Reno distribution facility, with no shipped home units on record. The BMW Spartanburg pilot, frequently cited as Figure's enterprise proof point, was Figure 02.

That deployment concluded in November 2025 and does not transfer to Figure 03's verification record. Figure describes the platform as fully autonomous in the demonstrated tasks, a framing that DEPLOY tracks as a claim rather than an audit until third-party reproduction lands.

Common questions

What is the difference between NEO, Apollo, and Figure 03?

NEO, Apollo, and Figure 03 are all 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.

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