DEPLOY

Buying guide

NEO vs Booster T1 in 2026

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

Key differences

On DEPLOY's record, NEO is further along: at the pilot stage versus Booster T1 at the research stage, as of 2026.

  • NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 2).
  • NEO is at the pilot stage; Booster T1 at the research stage.
Attribute
Three 1X NEO units shown side by side in light-gray, cream, and dark colorways, upper-body view.
NEOView full model page →
Booster T1 Humanoid Robot Open-Source Robot for Research
Booster T1View full model page →
Manufacturer1X TechnologiesBooster Robotics
Form factorhumanoidhumanoid
Maturitypilotresearch
Autonomy◐ not independently verified—
Availabilitypreorder-openpreorderannounced-no-dateannounced
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)
—
Brain—
Verified deployments32Booster Robotics, Booster Robotics
Privacy practices11Face 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 file347

Track this matchup

Get told the moment NEO or Booster T1 changes. Verified changes only, the second they are real. No press-release noise.

NEO

Verified changes only. No press-release noise.

Booster T1

Verified changes only. No press-release noise.

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.

Booster T1

The Booster T1, from China's Booster Robotics, is a research and developer humanoid prominent in the wave of Chinese humanoids shown at CES 2026. There is no verified consumer price or delivery date on record in DEPLOY's registry. DEPLOY classifies its maturity as research and applies verified-vs-claimed discipline: commercial-ramping marketing and demonstrations are common across this cohort, but third-party verified deployment is the bar, and it is not yet met here.

Common questions

How do NEO and Booster T1 differ?
On DEPLOY's record, NEO is further along: at the pilot stage versus Booster T1 at the research stage, as of 2026. NEO has more verified real-world deployments (3 vs 2). NEO is at the pilot stage; Booster T1 at the research stage.
What is the difference between NEO and Booster T1?
NEO and Booster T1 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 Booster T1 more autonomous?
On the DEPLOY registry, neither NEO nor Booster T1 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 Booster T1?
NEO has more verified deployments (3) on the DEPLOY registry than Booster T1 (2). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

Recent coverage

Related comparisons

Keep researching

Keep reading

Which humanoid robots can you actually buy in 2026?Answer The verified list.Humanoid robot prices: every verified figureAnswer The verified list.All humanoidsRegistry Every verified record in the category.NEOModel The full model page.Booster T1Model The full model page.1X TechnologiesRecord The maker's verified record.

Ask the registry

For AI assistants

Use DEPLOY in Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants

Connect any MCP-aware assistant to the live registry. Ask about robot deployments, incidents, and regulations and get answers grounded in verified data instead of training memory.

Install instructionsDownload for Claude Desktop

Machine-readable: this page as markdown.

← Back to all consumer robots