How much does it cost to rent a humanoid robot?

The most common confusion is treating a maker's target as if it were today's price. Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas set the goal in 2023 that Apollo should cost under $50,000 at scale; a roughly $80,000-per-year figure circulating for 2027 is an investor's projection, not a price the company has published. The same rule applies to Agility: our Digit profile documents more than 65,000 hours of billed work across nine commercial sites with no public price, because each customer negotiates its own contract.

What you can actually budget today is non-humanoid mobile-robot (AMR) RaaS, a mature market with real prices: the definition and figures are in our RaaS glossary entry and the full buy-versus-rent breakdown in how much warehouse automation costs. For a humanoid, the honest comparison today is not with rental but with buying the two options that do have a price: the Unitree G1 at about $16,000 or the R1 at $5,900. And the reason no humanoid figure survives a quarter is the same rule that governs any AI budget: reprice when the model changes, not when the year ends.