Buying guide
NEO vs Fourier GR-2 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | 1X Technologies | Fourier Intelligence |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | research |
| Availability | preorder-openpreorder | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | $499/month subscription or $20,000 (actual sale price) | Not announced |
| Capability claims |
| — |
| Brain |
| — |
| Verified deployments | 11X Technologies | 0 |
| Privacy practices | 11Face 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 file | 31 | 6 |
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.
Fourier GR-2
Fourier's GR-2 (from Fourier Intelligence, Shanghai) is a second-generation bipedal research humanoid (GRx generation 2, 2024). DEPLOY records it at research maturity with no verified deployments: it is a development and demonstration platform, not a commercial-deployment-at-scale product. As a research platform it has no consumer price. Cap-flag: most Chinese-humanoid commercial-deployment framing in this cohort, GR-2 included, is aspirational demonstration; the verification posture is demonstration, not verified autonomous deployment.
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