Buyers' Guide 2026: Legged Robots

Robotics marketing is full of prototypes and staged demos. In this guide, “product” means at least one of: public product pages with spec sheets, named customers or deployments in real environments, or clear sales channels. This filter matters because humanoids and quadrupeds are at very different maturity levels.

Humanoid Robots: What You Can Actually Buy

Agility Robotics Digit stands out because the company focuses on operational deployments: integrating into warehouse systems and scaling via their Arc software platform. Digit is best understood as warehouse mobile manipulation for moving totes and boxes where environments can be controlled.

Boston Dynamics Spot remains the reference standard for industrial sensing and remote inspection. It has a mature ecosystem with payloads, inspection capabilities, and hazardous environment support. Commercial pricing starts around $74,500 for basic kits, with total systems often higher when adding payloads and software.

ANYbotics ANYmal is positioned as an autonomous inspection solution with industrial-grade ruggedization. The ANYmal X variant stands out with ATEX/IECEx Zone 1 certification for explosive and hazardous environments—the kind of compliance that separates real industrial products from flashy demos.

Unitree Go2 pushes legged hardware into a more accessible price bracket while still offering serious sensing options including 4D LiDAR and mapping. It’s a strong platform for education, research, and integrators building custom autonomy—less turnkey industrial inspection, more capable hardware base.

ANYmal X class platforms are the clear choice. For general inspection, mapping, and remote presence, look to mature ecosystems like Spot, or consider Go2 for lower-cost experimentation. For warehouse labor augmentation, Digit offers one of the clearest production workflow stories, though humanoids generally only win where the environment can be engineered to be robot-friendly.