Dates, not deliveries

DOMULU does not test these robots yet. This article sorts the week's claims with four questions: is it available, is a price published, who uses it first, and has anyone independent shown it working. It is a reading of public announcements, not a product test.

The week at a glance

Only Voxel is a home robot, and its deliveries are planned for the United States in 2028. Nothing here has a price, a delivery date and a European market.

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What was announced, and what was shown

Voxel: a $200 reservation for 2028

On 20 October, Tuesday Labs, a New York start-up led by former Boston Dynamics roboticist Ros Shinkle, announced Voxel Series-1, a legged home robot. It is meant to tidy a home, find objects, fetch them and tend plants. A reservation costs $200 and is refundable before an order is placed. The estimated price is about $20,000, with taxes and shipping to be confirmed. Deliveries are planned for the United States in 2028, possibly later and first in some areas.

What is shown: a concept and a development prototype that the company says will be substantially redesigned. No independent demonstration exists, and no European market is mentioned. (Humanoids Daily, Interesting Engineering)

One more point: an angel investor calls Voxel a "Unitree G1 wrapper", a layer built on Unitree's G1 humanoid. The company does not name Unitree. In the US, the FCC restricted new authorizations for foreign robotic equipment in July 2026. The G1, authorized in March 2025, stays on sale, but heavily modified versions may need their own authorization. (Humanoids Daily)

Tesla Optimus: production has started, deliveries are for businesses

On its 21 October earnings call, Tesla said Optimus production has begun at Fremont, calling the robots coming off the line "the first production-quality bots that we have manufactured". Elon Musk said reaching about 20,000 robots a week would likely take at least a year. Outside deliveries are expected around the end of 2027, for industry first (dangerous or repetitive tasks). Home use would come after, with no date.

No price, current output or production cost was given. Management itself described a "slow and uneven" start and said hands are not finalized, and that dexterity, useful AI and durability are still to be solved. Musk promised a new demonstration in one to two months. Every number comes from Tesla. (Humanoids Daily)

Figure 04: a design lock and big numbers

Figure's CEO Brett Adcock said the Figure 04 is in "design lock", with parts shipping and actuators and batteries in test. Figure reports 37.5 million videos uploaded to its Index program, and a compute deal with Nscale worth $3.5 billion at first. These figures come from an internal all-hands meeting whose recording was made public on 22 October. An upload is not a cleaned video used for training, and the "baby AGI" claim about Helix 3.0 is not supported by any shown result.

For the home, the only evidence is older: in September, tests of Helix 2.5 in 30 rented homes succeeded in 237 of 420 trials, about 56%, on three household tasks. No price, customer or Figure 04 use was named. (Humanoids Daily)

NEURA 4NE1 Gen 4: unveiled, and last week's laundry check is still open

Last week we flagged NEURA's planned 11-minute laundry sequence at Nvidia GTC Berlin (20–22 October). It was described as a handling and coordination sequence (sorting, loading and unloading a washing machine, moving clothes to a dryer), not a full wash-and-dry cycle. We found no report of how it went: no number of runs, nothing on human intervention.

On 22 October, NEURA unveiled the 4NE1 Gen 4 at the opening of the TUM RoboGym in Munich. The company says it is about 20% lighter, with improved hands, and gives no weight, price or delivery date. The RoboGym starts with 48 training cells and about 100 humanoid and service robots, a mix and not 100 4NE1. Its first tasks are industrial: folding cartons, assembling parts, using tools. (Humanoids Daily)

Agility × AGCO and Generative Bionics: factories and a planned hub

On 20 October, AGCO signed a commercial agreement with Agility Robotics for a pilot of the Digit humanoid at its Hesston, Kansas plant, starting in 2027. Digit would sort and stack parts and position storage bins. The number of robots, the value and the length of the pilot were not disclosed, and nothing says whether it leads to a firm order. (Humanoids Daily)

On 21 October, Italian start-up Generative Bionics announced a 5,000 m² training hub with AMD hardware, the first of three planned sites, targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027. It is for industrial use and is a plan, not a site in operation. "The largest in Europe" is the company's claim. (Humanoids Daily)

What this means for a European household

Nothing announced this week is a home offer for Europe, and every date depends on several things going right at once.

• Homes come last. Tesla puts industry first and home use later with no date. NEURA's first tasks are industrial, and Agility and Generative Bionics work with factories. Last week, XPENG also started with stores and malls.
• The only home robot is a reservation for the US. Voxel is a refundable $200 deposit for deliveries in 2028, on a prototype that will be redesigned. The earliest home date anyone gave this week is 2028, in the United States.
• Dates are conditional. Tesla itself says end-2027 depends on hardware, AI and production ramp-up advancing together.
• Numbers measure effort, not results. 37.5 million uploaded videos, a target of 20,000 robots a week and about 100 robots in a training hub describe inputs. The only household result this week is Figure's 56% success rate in rented homes, and it dates from September.

A household should read this week as a calendar: 2027 for businesses, 2028 for the first home reservations, and only if prototypes become products.

What we will check next

Four open items carry over to the coming weeks:

• NEURA's laundry demo. We are waiting for a report with uncut footage, the number of runs, any human intervention, the garments and machines used, and a time comparable to a person's.
• Tesla's promised demonstration. Musk said it would show behaviors that are not preprogrammed, within one to two months. We will ask the same questions: uncut footage, repeated runs, and whether anyone controls the robot.
• Voxel. An independent demonstration in a real home, and the reservation and refund terms in writing.
• Figure. A named customer, or independent household results beyond the September trials.

We will report what each one shows, and what it leaves open.

Sources

Pages opened for this article, as of 23 October 2026. Company claims are reported as claims.

• Humanoids Daily, Tesla begins Optimus production in Fremont (22 October)
• ABC7 Los Angeles, Tesla begins production of Optimus (23 October; its wording on the 20,000-a-week timing differs, so we used the more detailed account above)
• Humanoids Daily, Figure 04 and Helix 3.0 (23 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Voxel reservations (20 October)
• Interesting Engineering, Voxel (21 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Unitree G1 as a platform for US start-ups (22 October)
• Humanoids Daily, NEURA 4NE1 Gen 4 and TUM RoboGym (23 October)
• Humanoids Daily, NEURA Neuron AI and the planned laundry demo (15 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Agility and AGCO (20 October)
• Humanoids Daily, Generative Bionics (21 October)