Buying guide
NEO vs MagicBot Z1 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 | MagicLab |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | pilot |
| Availability | preorder-openpreorder | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | $499/month subscription or $20,000 (actual sale price) | no price disclosed (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.
MagicBot Z1
MagicLab's MagicBot Z1 (unveiled July 8, 2025 in Beijing) is a roughly 140-centimeter, 40-kilogram humanoid (24-to-49 degrees of freedom, in-house actuators) marketed for agile motion via side-flip and martial-arts demonstrations; the MagicBot Gen1 has appeared in factory multi-robot demos. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with no verified deployments. The verified-vs-claimed point is central here: the side-flip and martial-arts clips are choreographed or teleoperated demonstrations, not autonomous task performance, and the factory demos are demonstrations, not verified at-scale deployment. As a pilot platform it has no consumer price.
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