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NEO vs MagicBot Z1 in 2026

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

Key differences

On DEPLOY's record, NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 versus 2) than MagicBot Z1 as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 2).

Attribute	NEO View full model page →	MagicBot Z1 View full model page →
Manufacturer	1X Technologies	MagicLab
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	pilot	pilot
Autonomy	◐ not independently verified	◐ not independently verified
Availability	preorder-openpreorder	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)	no price disclosed (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 (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain	1X World Model (world-model) Redwood AI (foundation-model)	—
Verified deployments	3	2MagicLab, MagicLab
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	8

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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.

MagicBot Z1

MagicLab's MagicBot Z1 (unveiled July 8, 2025 in Beijing) is a roughly 140-centimeter, 40-kilogram humanoid (24-to-49 degrees of freedom, in-house actuators) marketed for agile motion via side-flip and martial-arts demonstrations; the MagicBot Gen1 has appeared in factory multi-robot demos. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with no verified deployments.

The verified-vs-claimed point is central here: the side-flip and martial-arts clips are choreographed or teleoperated demonstrations, not autonomous task performance, and the factory demos are demonstrations, not verified at-scale deployment. As a pilot platform it has no consumer price.

Common questions

How do NEO and MagicBot Z1 differ?

On DEPLOY's record, NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 versus 2) than MagicBot Z1 as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source. NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 2).

What is the difference between NEO and MagicBot Z1?

NEO and MagicBot Z1 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.

Is NEO or MagicBot Z1 more autonomous?

On the DEPLOY registry, neither NEO nor MagicBot Z1 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 MagicBot Z1?

NEO has more verified deployments (3) on the DEPLOY registry than MagicBot Z1 (2). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

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