The biggest difference right now is not height, payload or AI branding. NEO has a published consumer order path; Optimus does not. That makes a conventional spec-table winner misleading.
This is a useful traffic page because it captures a huge search idea while keeping the answer honest: one is closer to being a household product today, the other may be bigger long term.
$20,000 ownership or $499/month; $200 refundable deposit
Foundational autonomy plus scheduled Expert Mode for tasks NEO does not yet know
The clearest current example of a humanoid being sold as a home product, but its useful autonomy needs to be separated carefully from remotely assisted task completion.
Official product page ↗No official consumer price
Development target is a general-purpose autonomous humanoid
Potentially category-defining, but it should be shown as a future option rather than compared as though consumers can buy it today.
Official product page ↗If your question is which one can I place an order for as a home user, NEO is ahead. Its harder question is capability maturity: how much useful work will Early Access units perform reliably and autonomously?
Tesla's manufacturing ambition and general-purpose robotics program could eventually make Optimus hugely important. RightRobot should not convert that potential into a present-tense consumer score before there is a product consumers can actually evaluate and buy.
These are the most useful next questions from this page, selected to help separate what is available now, what is genuinely proven and what is still coming next.
The flagship page with pricing, autonomy, video evidence and RightRobot's task-by-task read.
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