Buying guide
r1 vs RayNeo V3 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
On DEPLOY's record, RayNeo V3 is further along: at the commercial stage versus r1 at the pilot stage, as of 2026.
- r1 has the lower recorded price.
- r1 is at the pilot stage; RayNeo V3 at the commercial stage.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Rabbit Inc | RayNeo |
| Form factor | wearable | wearable |
| Maturity | pilot | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | $199 (actual sale price) | $245-$255 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Rabbit Inc | 1RayNeo |
| Privacy practices | 10location-tracking, cloud-upload, data-retention, third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, data-sale, location-tracking, data-sale, data-deletion-control, data-retention | 4data-sale, third-party-sharing, data-retention, data-deletion-control |
| Sources on file | 12 | 5 |
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Editorial summaries
r1
The Rabbit r1 is a $199 pocket AI companion device, unveiled at CES in January 2024 and still shipping into 2026, with no subscription. Its editorial throughline is the gap between demo and product: the launch demonstration of a Large Action Model (LAM) completing agentic tasks outran what the shipping product has consistently delivered.
Rabbit has shipped software updates since launch, but consistent agentic task completion is not verified. DEPLOY classifies its maturity as pilot.
RayNeo V3
The RayNeo V3 (from RayNeo, TCL's AR glasses subsidiary) is a camera-and-audio AI glasses product with no display, in the Ray-Ban Meta class: 39 grams, a 12-megapixel TCL co-developed camera (1080p/30fps), and 32GB of storage. It went on sale in China in January 2025 at 1,799 yuan, roughly $249.
Its AI is genuine: a customized multimodal large language model via an Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen partnership, with three years of free AI updates, placing it in the genuine-cloud-AI tier. Two cap-flags: pricing is China-market CNY (the USD figure is a conversion, and it is not officially sold outside China), and the vendor's performance numbers (a 1.3-second response time and 98 percent accuracy) are RayNeo-stated, not independently verified. It is the TCL/RayNeo parallel to Xiaomi AI Glasses and Baidu's Xiaodu in the Chinese consumer wearable-AI cohort.
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