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NEO vs Digit in 2026

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

Key differences

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

  • Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
  • NEO has the lower recorded price.
  • Digit has more verified real-world deployments (11 vs 3).
  • NEO is at the pilot stage; Digit at the commercial stage.
Attribute
Three 1X NEO units shown side by side in light-gray, cream, and dark colorways, upper-body view.
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Agility Robotics Digit humanoid robot moving a tote onto a conveyor in a warehouse. Still from the official Agility Robotics video "Digit's First Day of Work at GXO" (2024); the frame carries the video's own on-screen caption.
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Manufacturer1X TechnologiesAgility Robotics
Form factorhumanoidhumanoid
Maturitypilotcommercial
Autonomy◐ not independently verified✓ 1 verified autonomous
Availabilitypreorder-openpreorderinternal-onlyenterprise
Price$499/month subscription (manufacturer target) or $20,000 (manufacturer target) or $499/month subscription (actual sale price) or $20,000 (actual sale price)$100,000-$250,000 (analyst estimate)
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)
  • Fetches items (autonomous, verified)
Brain
Verified deployments311
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 file3445

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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.

Digit

Digit is the cohort's commercial verification anchor: the most-verified-hours humanoid in the registry, with Agility's GXO Flowery Branch deployment doing the load-bearing work. The maker-facility rule applies in reverse here. GXO operates Digit on customer-paid freight inside GXO's own warehouses, which is the commercial-deployment shape that internal-facility pilots from Tesla, 1X, and others do not yet have.

Agility describes Digit's operational envelope as autonomous mobile manipulation in structured logistics; the verification anchor is what operators document at the customer site, not Agility's spec sheet.

Common questions

How do NEO and Digit differ?
On DEPLOY's record, Digit is further along: at the commercial stage versus NEO at the pilot stage, as of 2026. Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0). NEO has the lower recorded price. Digit has more verified real-world deployments (11 vs 3). NEO is at the pilot stage; Digit at the commercial stage.
What is the difference between NEO and Digit?
NEO and Digit 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.
Which is cheaper, NEO or Digit?
NEO has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Digit. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
Is NEO or Digit more autonomous?
Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than NEO. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.
Which has more verified deployments, NEO or Digit?
Digit has more verified deployments (11) on the DEPLOY registry than NEO (3). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

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