What humanoid robots can actually do.
Every capability claim in this guide is sorted into three honest buckets: things robots do reliably today, things they do slowly or with remote human assistance, and things that remain demo-only. If a video amazed you recently, this page tells you which bucket it belongs in.
G1
The one you can actually buy and run today
The G1 is the cheapest humanoid most buyers can realistically own, and it does a narrow set of things well: walking, balance recovery, basic manipulation and developer experimentation. It is not a household helper, and treating it as one is the fastest route to disappointment.
NEO Gamma
The one built around household tasks
NEO is designed for the home rather than the lab, which changes what the hardware prioritises: softness, safe contact, and tasks that happen in cluttered rooms. The honest caveat is that a meaningful share of what you see demonstrated still involves a human operator somewhere in the loop.
Reliable today
Walking and navigating homes and workplaces, including stairs and door handles. Picking up, carrying, and delivering objects up to their payload rating. Sorting and moving items - the backbone of warehouse deployments processing hundreds of thousands of packages. Voice interaction, monitoring, and patrolling. In factories, repetitive manipulation tasks now run genuinely unattended.
Real but slow (or assisted)
Laundry folding, loading dishwashers, wiping surfaces, and tidying cluttered rooms all exist on real robots - at a fraction of human speed, and sometimes with a remote human operator assisting the hard parts. This "teleoperation" layer is the industry's open secret: it's how robots handle edge cases while the AI learns. It's also how they improve, so this bucket empties into the reliable bucket over time.
Still demo-only
Cooking a full meal (chopping, stovetop judgment, plating) remains a staged showcase, not a shipping feature. So do bathroom cleaning, childcare of any kind, and complex repairs. When you see these in a video, assume careful choreography, favorable takes, or teleoperation unless proven otherwise.