The humanoid shelf is real.
Twenty-nine humanoids are shipping, piloting, or taking pre-orders. Here's how to think about buying one.
For most of the last decade, buying a humanoid meant one of two things: a $2M research platform aimed at a university lab, or a plastic show-floor mannequin that could wave. That era is over. Today, twenty-nine credible humanoids are shipping, piloting on real customer lines, or taking pre-orders — and the buyer is no longer just a robotics postdoc.
TheHumanoidStore exists because that buyer needs a shelf. Not a research portal, not an OEM catalog, not another Series-B announcement — a place to walk in, compare, and put your name on a specific unit.
Three departments organize the shelf. Industrial humanoids — Figure 02, Optimus, Atlas Electric, Digit, Apollo, Walker S1 — are the ones with the most credible near-term revenue. Security humanoids handle patrol, inspection, and hazardous environments. Home humanoids are the smallest category today, but the one with the largest addressable market.
Prices span two orders of magnitude, from Unitree's sub-$16k G1 to PAL's $900k TALOS. Runtimes span from two hours to a full shift. And status ranges from 'announced' — a press release, a render, a pre-order form — to 'limited pilot,' the phrase you want to see if you're buying to deploy.
None of this is a promise that any specific unit will ship on time. It's an honest snapshot of a market that just became real enough to have a store.