Buying guide
Ameca vs MagicBot Z1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Ameca has more verified real-world deployments (2 vs 0).
- Ameca is at the commercial stage; MagicBot Z1 at the pilot stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Engineered Arts | MagicLab |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | pilot |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | $250,000 (actual sale price) | no price disclosed (not announced) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 2Computer History Museum, Museum of the Future | 0 |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 11 | 6 |
Editorial summaries
Ameca
Ameca, from UK-based Engineered Arts, is the famous expressive humanoid: 61 actuated movements (27 DoF head/face plus 34 DoF upper body), 50+ facial expressions, and conversational AI via the Tritium software with LLM and speech integration (Generation 3 shown at ICRA 2025). It is a stationary communication and showpiece robot, not a mobile general-purpose worker. It is commercially offered for purchase and rental at about $250,000. The expressiveness and conversation are real; what it is not is a walking, working humanoid.
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.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Ameca and MagicBot Z1?
- Ameca and MagicBot Z1 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 has more verified deployments, Ameca or MagicBot Z1?
- Ameca has more verified deployments (2) on the DEPLOY registry than MagicBot Z1 (0). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
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