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AEON 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, MagicBot Z1 has more verified real-world deployments (2 versus 1) than AEON as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

MagicBot Z1 has more verified real-world deployments (2 vs 1).

Attribute	AEON View full model page →	MagicBot Z1 View full model page →
Manufacturer	Hexagon	MagicLab
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	pilot	pilot
Autonomy	—	◐ not independently verified
Availability	internal-onlyenterprise	internal-onlyenterprise
Price	Not announced	no price disclosed (not announced)
Capability claims	—	Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain	GR00T N1 (Isaac GR00T) (foundation-model)	—
Verified deployments	1Hexagon	2MagicLab, MagicLab
Privacy practices	—	—
Sources on file	6	8

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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.

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 AEON and MagicBot Z1 differ?

On DEPLOY's record, MagicBot Z1 has more verified real-world deployments (2 versus 1) than AEON as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source. MagicBot Z1 has more verified real-world deployments (2 vs 1).

What is the difference between AEON and MagicBot Z1?

AEON 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 AEON or MagicBot Z1 more autonomous?

On the DEPLOY registry, neither AEON 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, AEON or MagicBot Z1?

MagicBot Z1 has more verified deployments (2) on the DEPLOY registry than AEON (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

Recent coverage

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