Buying guide
AEON vs Ameca in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Ameca has more verified real-world deployments (2 vs 1).
- AEON is at the pilot stage; Ameca at the commercial stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Hexagon | Engineered Arts |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | Not announced | $250,000 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain |
| — |
| Verified deployments | 1BMW Group | 2Computer History Museum, Museum of the Future |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 5 | 11 |
Editorial summaries
AEON
Hexagon's AEON is an industrial humanoid robot built for factory work such as assembly lines and high-voltage EV-battery manufacturing, developed with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Swiss actuator maker maxon. It carries 22 sensors and self-swapping batteries (about 23 seconds) for around-the-clock operation, with a walking speed near 2.5 meters per second. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment, at BMW Group Plant Leipzig: the honest counterpoint to aggregator 'humanoids are working in factories at scale' framing, this is a verified pilot, not commercial-at-scale. As industrial equipment sold to manufacturers, it has no consumer price.
Ameca
Ameca, from UK-based Engineered Arts, is the famous expressive humanoid: 61 actuated movements (27 DoF head/face plus 34 DoF upper body), 50+ facial expressions, and conversational AI via the Tritium software with LLM and speech integration (Generation 3 shown at ICRA 2025). It is a stationary communication and showpiece robot, not a mobile general-purpose worker. It is commercially offered for purchase and rental at about $250,000. The expressiveness and conversation are real; what it is not is a walking, working humanoid.
Common questions
- What is the difference between AEON and Ameca?
- AEON and Ameca 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.
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