Until recently, pricing a humanoid robot in the United States meant emailing a sales team and waiting. That is changing quietly: a handful of US drone-and-robotics dealers have started putting the second wave of Chinese humanoid platforms on ordinary storefront pages, with numbers attached.
We read those pages on 11 August 2026. Everything below comes from live US storefronts — Maverick Drone Systems, US Robot Store and Unitree's own shop — with currency confirmed as USD from each store's cart endpoint, not inferred from the dollar sign. Where a listed price does not come with a checkout path, we say so.
The full price ladder, 11 August 2026
| Platform | Configuration | Listed US price | Buyable today? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booster K1 | Qualcomm (Geek) 5Ah | $10,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster K1 | Qualcomm upgraded package | $11,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster K1 | EDU (Jetson Orin NX 8GB) | $12,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster K1 | Pro (Jetson AGX Orin 32GB) | $16,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster T2 | Edu | $32,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster T2 | Pro | $37,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster T2 | Edu / Pro with gripper | $42,999 / $48,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster T2 | Edu / Pro with dexterous hand | $48,999 / $54,999 | Listed, in stock |
| Booster T2 | Pro, high-DoF tactile hands | $118,999 | Listed, in stock |
| AGIBOT X2 | Standard | $29,999 | Price shown, **Request a Quote** |
| AGIBOT X2 | Ultra | $49,999 | Price shown, **Request a Quote** |
| EngineAI PM01 | EDU | $26,500 | Price shown, **Request a Quote** |
| LimX TRON 1 | EDU | $24,800 | Price shown, **Request a Quote** |
| LimX Oli | EDU (open box) | $59,000 | Price shown, **Request a Quote** |
| DEEP Robotics DR-02 | All-weather humanoid | $75,600 | Listed |
| DEEP Robotics DR-02 Pro | All-weather humanoid | $100,800 | Listed |
| Unitree G1 | Basic | $21,600 | Listed |
| Unitree G1 Edu | Standard → Ultimate D | $43,900 → $73,900 | Listed |
| Unitree H2 | Standard / EDU | $44,999 / $74,999 | Listed |
Specs, from the same product pages: the AGIBOT X2 is roughly 1.3 m and 35 kg with up to 31 degrees of freedom; the EngineAI PM01 EDU is 138 cm, about 40 kg, 23 DoF, walking to 2 m/s; LimX Oli is 165 cm with 31 active DoF. Booster's T2 is a 125 lb class full-size platform, launched in July 2026, sold in Edu and Pro compute tiers.
Three things the ladders tell a buyer
Compute is the cheap step; hands are the expensive one. Moving a Booster T2 from Edu to Pro compute costs $5,000 (+15.2%). Adding dexterous hands to the same Pro costs $17,000 (+44.7%), and the high-DoF tactile version costs $81,000 more than the bare Pro — the hands are 68.1% of that $118,999 invoice. We take that apart separately in our analysis of what a robot hand actually costs.
"Ultra" and "Edu" are not standard words. AGIBOT's Ultra is +66.7% over the base X2. Unitree's G1 Edu ladder runs from $43,900 to $73,900 across eight configurations that differ mainly in DoF and sensing. Two different US dealers list the upper half of that Unitree ladder at *identical* prices ($53,900 / $63,900 / $65,900 / $67,900 / $73,900), which is the strongest sign we found all day that these are real US list prices rather than one shop's guess.
But the dealers do not agree everywhere. The Unitree H2 is $44,999 (Standard) and $74,999 (EDU) at one dealer and $68,900 (Edu) at the other — 8.1% apart on a nominally identical configuration. Treat any single humanoid price as one seller's number until a second one matches it.
The $100,000 problem
The strangest listing of the day is on the manufacturer's own site. Unitree's shop currently prices the B1, B2, B2-W, A2, As2 EDU, R1-D (three variants) and H2 Plus at exactly $100,000 — eight listings, one round number, machines that have nothing in common. The H1 sits at $90,000 under a product title that reads, in full, "Unitree H1（Contact us for the real price）".
We have catalogued placeholder prices before — four different service robots at $20,580, licence SKUs at $0.01, compare-at values of $0.00. This is the first time a manufacturer has annotated the placeholder itself. If you are budgeting from a screenshot of that page, you are budgeting from nothing.
Cross-checking outside the US
France's Generation Robots lists the Booster T2 from €27,060 including VAT, marked as available in September. Backing out 20% VAT and converting at 1.1547 (EUR/USD, 10 August 2026) gives roughly $26,038 — about 26.7% *below* the $32,999 US listing for the T2 Edu.
That is the opposite of what we normally find. On AgileX chassis and Trossen research arms, European listings ran 12–92% above US prices once VAT was removed. Configuration matching across the two sites is imperfect (the European "from" price is the no-effector build), so read this as a flag to get a European quote before signing a US one, not as a settled 27% saving.
Practical notes
- Four of these platforms (AGIBOT X2, EngineAI PM01, LimX TRON 1 and Oli) publish a price and then route you to a quote form. The number is useful for budgeting; it is not an offer.
- Consumables are where these platforms differ most. Booster sells replacement batteries at $649–$1,800; the AGIBOT, EngineAI and LimX listings carry no spare parts at all.
- Search results for these brands are dominated by aggregator sites that publish prices with no traceable source — including one network already on our do-not-cite list. Prefer a storefront you can put in a cart.
More context: our humanoid robot category page tracks platforms and suppliers, and our bill-of-materials breakdown explains where the money inside these machines actually sits.
*All prices read 11 August 2026 from live US storefronts and are single-day, single-market observations. Humanoid pricing at this stage moves quickly; verify before you budget.*
