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AEON vs Unitree G1 in 2026

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

Key differences

On DEPLOY's record, Unitree G1 is further along: at the commercial stage versus AEON at the pilot stage, as of 2026.

Unitree G1 has more verified real-world deployments (10 vs 1).
AEON is at the pilot stage; Unitree G1 at the commercial stage.

Attribute	AEON View full model page →	Unitree G1 View full model page →
Manufacturer	Hexagon	Unitree Robotics
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	pilot	commercial
Autonomy	—	◐ not independently verified
Availability	internal-onlyenterprise	waitlistwaitlist
Price	Not announced	$13,500 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	—	Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain	GR00T N1 (Isaac GR00T) (foundation-model)	UnifoLM (world-model)
Verified deployments	1Hexagon	10
Privacy practices	—	—
Sources on file	6	29

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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.

Unitree G1

The Unitree G1 is a research and developer humanoid platform at a sub-enterprise price point, sold into university labs, hardware-research groups, and individual developers rather than enterprise integration contracts. The category distinction matters: a G1 at a research bench is in its intended environment; treating G1 in active research use as commercial deployment overstates Unitree's commercial position relative to Apollo, Digit, or Atlas.

Unitree describes G1's autonomy as developer-platform capability for capability research, with the published specs (degrees of freedom, payload, runtime) as the verifiable substance; commercial deployment hours at named customer sites are not yet part of G1's record.

Common questions

How do AEON and Unitree G1 differ?

On DEPLOY's record, Unitree G1 is further along: at the commercial stage versus AEON at the pilot stage, as of 2026. Unitree G1 has more verified real-world deployments (10 vs 1). AEON is at the pilot stage; Unitree G1 at the commercial stage.

What is the difference between AEON and Unitree G1?

AEON and Unitree G1 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 Unitree G1 more autonomous?

On the DEPLOY registry, neither AEON nor Unitree G1 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 Unitree G1?

Unitree G1 has more verified deployments (10) on the DEPLOY registry than AEON (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

Recent coverage

Hexagon and Schaeffler Advance Industrial Humanoid Deployment with AEONAEON · Metrology News · 2026-08-24
AAEON Leverages Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 for its latest SMARC Module, the uCOM-Q6490AEON · TimesTech · 2026-08-21
The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From ChinaUnitree G1 · Wired · 2026-08-14
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree prices IPO at $9 billion valuationUnitree G1 · Reuters · 2026-08-06

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