Humanoid Robot Price Index: what they really cost, and what they cost in Poland

What exactly is being counted

The Robolupa catalogue holds 101 humanoid robots. 33 of them (33%) carry a price from the manufacturer or a seller. After removing 2 duplicates and outdated entries (the R1 Air repeats the R1 price, and the R1 EDU has an outdated price tier), 31 models remain, and the index rests on them. The other 68 have no price in our sources, 23 of them despite an "on sale" status.

The base value is the list price in US dollars; euro prices (iCub) are converted at the NBP mid rate of 1 October 2026. Polish shop prices are calculated separately, in zloty including VAT.

The result: a median of 38,000 USD

The median list price is 38,000 USD, about 147,296 PLN (≈ EUR 33,690) at the NBP mid rate of 1 October 2026 (3.8762 PLN per dollar). The middle half of models lies between 20,750 and 95,000 USD. The cheapest is Noetix Bumi at 1,402 USD (9,988 CNY according to SCMP); the most expensive is iCub from Italy's IIT institute, around 250,000 EUR or 282,300 USD.

By price band (number of models): under 10,000 USD, 3; 10,000 to 25,000, 7; 25,000 to 50,000, 9; 50,000 to 100,000, 4; 100,000 or more, 8. About one model in four (8 of 31) costs 100,000 USD or more, and one in three (10 of 31) under 25,000.

How solid is that figure

The median depends on which entries count as firm. Prices the manufacturer itself states (6 models) give 24,950 USD. Point prices from manufacturers, press or aggregators (20 models) give 35,975 USD. Robots on sale (23) come to 40,500 USD, and without Unitree (26) to 39,250 USD. The honest answer is between 25,000 and 40,000 USD, depending on the criterion. Keeping the 2 excluded entries as well would drop the median to 35,000 USD, because repeated cheap variants pull it down by 3,000 USD.

The word "price" also means different things in this table. 7 prices are a point picked from a range given in the source (the midpoint or one end), 4 are estimates or claims the manufacturer has not confirmed, and 8 entries are robots outside regular sale (4 prototypes, 4 pre-orders). Unitree H1 shows 90,000 USD in the manufacturer's shop with a note that the real price is on request: a reference point, not an offer.

Poland: an index with a single manufacturer

In the catalogue, 7 entries are marked as available in Poland, and every one belongs to Unitree Robotics (the R1, G1, H1 and H2 lines and their variants). For the remaining 94 humanoids we hold no Polish price, so we can describe only one brand's range, not a Polish humanoid market.

The price radar collected 33 offers across 5 sources (x-kom, Ceneo, Botland, drony.net, Delta Robots). 22 were checked on product pages; the rest come from search results or look suspicious and are excluded. That leaves 13 Unitree configurations. The cheapest is the R1 Air at 41,000 PLN (≈ EUR 9,380) (x-kom), the most expensive the H1 at 439,000 PLN (≈ EUR 100,420) (Botland, marked unavailable on 28 September 2026), the median is 149,912 PLN (≈ EUR 34,290), and the middle half lies between 78,500 and 240,000 PLN (≈ EUR 54,900). Net offers were converted to gross (×1.23).

Set against the manufacturer's price, this gives four pairs. Unitree R1: 4,900 USD is 18,993 PLN (≈ EUR 4,340), and the cheapest Polish offer costs 41,000 PLN (≈ EUR 9,380) (2.16 times as much). Unitree G1 in the Basic version: 52,329 PLN (≈ EUR 11,970) against 98,277 PLN (≈ EUR 22,480) gross (1.88). H1: 348,858 PLN (≈ EUR 79,800) against 439,000 PLN (≈ EUR 100,420) (1.26). Unitree H2: 115,898 PLN (≈ EUR 26,510) against 240,000 PLN (≈ EUR 54,900) (2.07), though the Polish offer is for the EDU Smart A variant, so that comparison is approximate. Without 23% VAT the gap is 1.02 to 1.75 times. Our sources do not itemise the rest (customs, freight, margin, EU warranty); four pairs are too few for a typical mark-up, so we give none.

Change over time: only a starting point

The series begins now: 20 of the 33 prices are dated September 2026, the rest earlier. The price radar's first reading is dated 28 September 2026 (16 humanoid positions; 12 marked available, 4 unavailable). One position appears on two days: the G1 Basic at Botland, 100,000 PLN (≈ EUR 22,870) in a category listing on 27 September and 99,000 PLN (≈ EUR 22,650) on its product page on 28 September. Different page types, so we do not read it as a price cut.

Three dated changes exist. Leju's average Kuavo-5 selling price fell, per its listing prospectus, from 413,900 CNY in 2024 to 308,100 CNY in 2025 (−25.6%; secondary source). The 1X NEO price (20,000 USD or 499 USD a month) is the same in October 2025 and on the manufacturer's page on 2 October 2026. The Unitree R1 once had three tiers (4,900, 5,900 and 10,500 USD, undated); the shop now lists every variant at 4,900 USD. Comparing launch years adds little: the median is 33,949 USD for 2024 models (n=5) and 21,800 USD for 2025 (n=9), but those are different robots, not one product over time. 15 models have no launch date, and 2023 has only two.

Future readings use a fixed basket of the same configurations, shops and gross basis. The starting value is the median of the cheapest gross offers on 28 September 2026 across 12 configurations: 152,500 PLN (≈ EUR 34,880) (= 100).

What this means for buyers in Poland

First, a model name is not enough. The R1 Air costs 41,000 PLN (≈ EUR 9,380) here while the R1 EDU Professional A costs 130,000 PLN (≈ EUR 29,740), more than three times as much, although both are called R1. Ask about the variant and the SDK. Second, check whether a price is net or gross: the G1 Basic at 79,900 PLN (≈ EUR 18,280) net from Delta Robots is 98,277 PLN (≈ EUR 22,480) gross, the same as 99,000 PLN (≈ EUR 22,650) gross at Botland and x-kom.

Third, budget from a Polish shop's offer, not from a converted dollar price: across the four pairs the gap ran from 1.26 to 2.16 times. Fourth, read the cost calculation in “Humanoid Robot TCO: How to Calculate Total Cost” and the overview in “How Much Does a Humanoid Robot Cost in 2026”; the series differences are in “Unitree H1, G1, R1 and H2”, possible deductions in “Poland's Robotization Tax Relief”. For a teaching lab, see universities and laboratories; all humanoids are listed at humanoid robots.