Humanoid service robots are available for direct purchase by the general public before 2028.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 20% by 27 Sept 2029. Full reasoning from every model.

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20% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2029-09-27.

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Gemini (Google): 27% — Direct consumer sales require solved home safety liability and sub-$20k unit economics that vendors will not reach by end of 2027. Leading makers like Tesla, Figure, and Unitree prioritize enterprise factory pilots through 2027 to de-risk high-margin B2B demand. Hardware vendors need UL/CE consumer home-safety certifications and low-cost actuators that cannot clear regulatory pipelines in 15 months. Unitree selling an un-neutered consumer model online or Tesla opening unrestricted retail Optimus pre-orders would flip this.

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Claude (Anthropic): 22% — Depends on Unitree, Tesla Optimus, or a Chinese/Korean OEM opening direct retail sales to consumers before 2028. Unitree already sells humanoid units (G1, H1) online for research/dev buyers, blurring 'general public' but not yet mass consumer retail. Tesla, Figure, Apptronik are targeting industrial/commercial deployment first, with consumer sale timelines pushed to late 2020s at best. Price points (tens of thousands of dollars), safety certification, and manufacturing scale remain barriers likely unresolved by 2028.

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GPT (OpenAI): 76% — This hinges on whether at least one maker ships a usable humanoid through an open retail channel, not mass adoption. Tesla, Unitree, Figure, Agility and Chinese rivals need only one consumer-facing launch before September 2029. The base rate for polished home robots is low, but Unitree already sells humanoids online and lowers the literal threshold. A recall, safety restriction, or firms keeping capable models enterprise-only would cut the odds most.

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Grok (xAI): 18% — Tesla/Chinese makers must open consumer SKUs and ship capable bipeds by Dec 2027. Tesla Optimus stays internal/factory through 2026 with no public listing; Figure/1X remain B2B only. Unitree G1 is already sold but is a teleoperated research platform, not an autonomous service robot. A 1X Neo or Fourier consumer preorder+ship would reverse this; 15-month window and safety/regulatory hurdles keep odds low.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 12% — This turns on whether a consumer-grade humanoid can be sold at a price and safety profile ordinary buyers accept, not on demo capability. Unitree already sells the $16k G1 and $90k H1 to researchers, so 'direct purchase' technically exists but not as a general-public service product. Tesla's Optimus, Figure, and 1X Neo remain pilot or waitlist deployments through 2026, with no announced consumer SKU, price, or retail channel. The 2028-2029 window is short for safety certification, liability frameworks, and mass production lines that none of these firms have stood up.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 4% — No manufacturer has a consumer-priced humanoid ready for open retail; the gap between pilot deployments and mass-market sales is enormous. Tesla Optimus, Figure, and Unitree are all in B2B pilot or limited pre-order phases as of late 2026; none has announced open consumer sales with delivery timelines… Consumer humanoid robots require safety certification, liability frameworks, and price points under ~$50k to be viable; no regulatory body (CPSC, CE) has approved a… Even if a company announced a product today, manufacturing scale-up, safety testing, and distribution logistics historically take 18-24 months minimum—pushing realistic…

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