In September 2026, a private buyer can purchase a humanoid robot in Germany, but the actual catalogue can be counted on the fingers of one hand. On 2 September 2026, the editorial team at MonsterDealz.de checked six seller pages. The result: only one model, the Unitree G1, could be delivered by a German retailer within fourteen working days. Everything else either cannot be ordered or is intended for another market.
Here, a humanoid means a machine with a human body plan (head, torso, two arms, two legs) designed to move through spaces built for people. The distinction matters because the term “domestic robot” is misleading. The models that can be bought in 2026 are developer platforms aimed at developers, universities and trade shows. They walk, dance and wave, but they do not fold laundry.
Three humanoid robots you can buy in Germany with a German invoice and warranty
According to the MonsterDealz.de survey, three robots can be ordered in September 2026 with a German invoice, the German statutory warranty and home delivery: the Unitree G1, the Unitree R1 and the Neura 4NE1 Mini.
The G1 has the widest distribution. Six retailers list it, and prices vary by almost €9,500 from one seller to another, ranging from €17,884 to €27,370. According to Notebookcheck, the G1 listed on 3 April 2026 at €17,884 including shipping on Joybuy was about 34% cheaper than at the next most expensive retailer, Reichelt, which charged €27,275.89.
The full market range runs from €9,996 for the Unitree R1 to €98,000 for the full-size Neura 4NE1. Neura prices are excl. taxes and shipping, according to the manufacturer. The robots are sold by specialist retailers such as Terra Robotics, Funduino, Reichelt and the Unitree distributor UxS, as well as by the import marketplace Joybuy. Amazon only carries the Go2 robot dog and no humanoids. MediaMarkt and Saturn have no models on their shelves.
Unitree G1 price: what the list price leaves out
The advertised price is only half the bill. At the retailer Funduino, a spare battery for the G1 costs €839.99 and the remote control €297.50. The three-fingered hands that can grip objects are not included in the base model. To program the machine, buyers need the EDU version, which starts at $42,000, according to Unitree.
As for price history, the humanoid has appeared on MonsterDealz.de only twice. On 29 November 2025, the Unitree G1 was offered on Joybuy at €17,879 (list price €17,999 on that platform, out of stock on 2 September 2026). In June 2026, the Go2 Pro robot dog was offered at €2,599. Both were limited promotions capped at three units per customer, not regular stock.
Tesla Optimus price and availability: no waiting list, no pre-order price
Tesla has not published a sale price for Optimus, nor an official data sheet for the version being produced. The only sourced figure is an estimate by Elon Musk of around $30,000, made in October 2024. As of today, no official Tesla reservation has been identified.
At its German debut in Berlin on 20 December 2025, the robot handed out popcorn and Christmas baubles, according to ZDFheute, which noted that it remained “difficult to tell to what extent the robot was acting autonomously or was at least partly remote-controlled”. At the World Economic Forum in Davos on 22 January 2026, Elon Musk pushed back the timeline himself: private buyers would only get the robot from late 2027, with no price announced. According to TechCrunch, he said on 21 October 2026 that Tesla could produce 20,000 Optimus per week by the end of 2027: a target, not a current capacity. Until then, Optimus works in Tesla’s factories on simple sorting and transport tasks.
For Germany, this means there is neither a waiting list nor a pre-order price. Anyone searching today for how to “buy a Tesla Optimus” ends up on action figure shops or on sites selling reservations for a product the manufacturer itself does not offer.
1X NEO pre-order: open, but with a teleoperated “Expert Mode”
The 1X NEO is the only humanoid openly available for pre-order to private buyers: $20,000 or $499 a month, with a refundable $200 deposit. Delivery is planned in the United States from late 2026 and in Europe in 2027, according to 1X. The manufacturer quotes a height of 1.68 metres, a weight of about 30 kilos, a payload of up to 25 kilos, four hours of runtime per charge and a noise level of 22 decibels, quieter than a refrigerator.
The sensitive point is the “Expert Mode”. For tasks NEO cannot yet handle on its own, a 1X employee connects to the robot remotely and steers it around the home until the machine learns the task, according to t3n. Faces are blurred automatically and certain areas can be declared off limits, but an outsider can see your kitchen. A Wall Street Journal test, reported by Notebookcheck, shows the limits: NEO vacuumed properly and loaded the dishwasher, but took more than a minute to get a bottle of water out of the fridge and failed to crack a walnut. The unit tested was teleoperated. According to 1X, NEO should be able to work fully autonomously in about five years.
What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026
The humanoids that can be bought in 2026 can walk, climb stairs, dance, lift objects of up to 2 kilos and respond to voice commands. They cannot perform any household task without preparation. The Unitree G1 carries a maximum of 2 kilos per arm, according to heise online, and lasts about two hours on its 9,000 mAh battery before it needs recharging.
What looks like autonomy in videos is usually one of three things: a repeated sequence of movements, an operator with a remote control, or a single task trained under laboratory conditions. With the G1, Unitree demonstrates twelve categories of manipulation, such as unpacking a tennis racket, explicitly without a learned choreography, according to Notebookcheck. It is progress for research, not a laundry basket that empties itself.
Further reading: Unitree G1: specifications, price and demonstrations · Unitree: the maker of the affordable humanoid robot