Buying guide
Ameca vs Reflex 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).
- Ameca is at the commercial stage; Reflex at the pilot stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Engineered Arts | Reflex Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | pilot |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | $250,000 (actual sale price) | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 2Computer History Museum, Museum of the Future | 1GXO Logistics |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 11 | 11 |
Editorial summaries
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.
Reflex
Reflex Robotics' Reflex is a wheeled mobile-manipulator humanoid for warehouse and logistics operations: a sub-2-foot wheeled base, dual arms (25 pounds per arm, 50 pounds combined), an adjustable spine reaching floor to high shelf, a 16-plus-hour battery, and swappable three-finger grippers with suction. The verified-vs-claimed point is the autonomy posture: Reflex is designed for teleoperated deployment with a learning-from-demonstrations path toward autonomy, not an autonomous worker today. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment. As industrial and logistics equipment it has no consumer price, and its wheeled base distinguishes it from the bipedal-humanoid cohort.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Ameca and Reflex?
- Ameca and Reflex 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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