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NEO vs Unitree H1 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 Unitree H1 at the research stage, as of 2026.

NEO has the lower recorded price.
Unitree H1 has more verified real-world deployments (5 vs 3).
NEO is at the pilot stage; Unitree H1 at the research stage.

Attribute	NEO View full model page →	Unitree H1 View full model page →
Manufacturer	1X Technologies	Unitree Robotics
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	pilot	research
Autonomy	◐ not independently verified	◐ not independently verified
Availability	preorder-openpreorder	waitlistwaitlist
Price	$499/month subscription (manufacturer target) or $20,000 (manufacturer target) or $499/month subscription (actual sale price) or $20,000 (actual sale price)	$90,000-$128,900 (manufacturer target)
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)	Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain	1X World Model (world-model) Redwood AI (foundation-model)	UnifoLM (world-model)
Verified deployments	3	5
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	34	20

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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.

Unitree H1

The Unitree H1 is Unitree's higher-end research and developer humanoid (the standard H1 and the upgraded H1-2 with 7-DoF arms). Unitree lists it from about $90,000 on a contact-sales basis, up to about $128,900 for the H1-2. It is research and developer hardware, not a consumer-home product.

Common questions

How do NEO and Unitree H1 differ?

On DEPLOY's record, NEO is further along: at the pilot stage versus Unitree H1 at the research stage, as of 2026. NEO has the lower recorded price. Unitree H1 has more verified real-world deployments (5 vs 3). NEO is at the pilot stage; Unitree H1 at the research stage.

What is the difference between NEO and Unitree H1?

NEO and Unitree H1 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 Unitree H1?

NEO has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree H1. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.

Is NEO or Unitree H1 more autonomous?

On the DEPLOY registry, neither NEO nor Unitree H1 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 Unitree H1?

Unitree H1 has more verified deployments (5) 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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