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Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 · Starship Delivery Robot

All specialty robots. Every measure below is plotted against the full class, so a difference can be read against how much the class itself varies.

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2
Starship Delivery Robot

Pollen Robotics

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 75/100 Promising
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: $70,000list

Starship Technologies

Starship Delivery Robot

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 90/100 Pre-Order Ready
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: Not tracked

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01 Classification

What each one does on its own.

The Autonomy Ladder is the same five rungs for every robot on the site. A rung describes the conditions a robot handles without you, not how good it is.

Generalized

Any task, any setting

Environmental

Handles new obstacles without help

III

Conditional

Finishes familiar jobs on its own

Assisted

Runs preset routines, needs rescue

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2Starship Delivery Robot

Manual

One action, on command

02 Assessment

Where they actually differ.

The Robovations Score is nine inputs across three pillars, each weighted as shown and each scored so that more is better. A robot can lead on one and trail on another, which is the point of showing them apart. Cost of ownership and data handling are reported on each robot's own page and are never averaged into the score.

None of these robots carries a scored assessment yet, so there is nothing to plot here. The classification and evidence below still apply.

03 Measured against the class

How far apart is a long way?

A number only means something next to the spread it sits in. Each track below is the real range across every classified robot in the class, with the median marked.

Weight41 with a published figure

110.2 lbs50.7 lbs

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2110.2 lbs
Starship Delivery Robot50.7 lbs

0.1 lbsmedian 24.3 lbs2,646 lbs

Height41 with a published figure

65.4 in21.8 in

Pollen Robotics Reachy 265.4 in
Starship Delivery Robot21.8 in

0.9 inmedian 20.2 in82 in

Not compared, because fewer than two of these robots carry a published figure: Price, Suction, Runtime, Charge time, Noise.

04 Ownership

What the numbers leave out.

The trade-off

What each design gives up to be good at what it is good at.

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2

VR teleoperation gives fine-grained control and doubles as the demonstration path for imitation learning, but each behavior still has to be trained; out of the box the robot does what an operator or a trained policy tells it to.

Starship Delivery Robot

Remote-assistance layer sits behind a fleet Starship describes as operating at over 99 percent autonomy, with assistants on standby rather than driving. The dependency is real: the platform runs only in Starship-mapped service zones and is backed by staffed support that has to scale with the fleet. Starship does not break out how often that support is called, so the size of the human contribution behind the 99 percent figure cannot be checked.

Who each one is wrong for

Stated by the record itself. A robot being wrong for a household is a fact about fit, not a fault.

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2

Autonomous task execution without supervision: Learned policies run trained tasks, but published operation is either operator-driven or a policy running under supervision. Unsupervised end-to-end task completion in unstructured environments has not been documented.
Commercial warehouse or logistics pilots: Research platform status, roughly 3 kg of payload per arm, and integration work on an open stack make it a poor match for time-critical warehouse operations.
Cost-constrained robotics programs: $70K+ price point exceeds typical educational robotics budgets. The software stack itself is free and open source, so the constraint is hardware cost rather than recurring license fees.

Starship Delivery Robot

Consumer retail or unrestricted public sidewalk operation: Not available for purchase by individuals or small businesses. Operates only in Starship-managed fleet zones; unavailable for independent consumer use or ad-hoc delivery markets.

What stays your job

The upkeep ownership hands back to you, whatever the autonomy level says.

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2

Monthly: Gripper and wrist sensor calibration; cable inspection for wear.
Quarterly: Software updates from the Hugging Face ecosystem; firmware verification for arm servo controllers.
As needed: Arm motor bearing lubrication; gripper pad replacement when worn.
As needed: Base wheel replacement if tread is damaged from lab floor use.

Starship Delivery Robot

Daily: Recharges overnight on Starship’s wireless charging installations inside its service zone; the company documents autonomous charging with no manual plug-in task.
As needed: Sensor and camera cleaning is carried out by Starship field staff; no interval is published.
As needed: Wheel and tire replacement is handled at Starship’s regional maintenance centers; parts are not sold to the public.
As needed: Cargo compartment cleaning and hardware repairs are performed by Starship staff within its managed zones.
As needed: Software updates are pushed fleet-wide by Starship; no user action exists.
As needed: There are no owner tasks at all: Starship does not sell robots or spare parts, and it publishes neither a service interval nor parts pricing.

05 Evidence

How much each of these is standing on.

Classifications rest on different depths of evidence. A pre-release assessment and a verified one are not the same kind of claim.

Evidence behind each classification
Robot	Evidence status	Sources reviewed	Last assessed
Pollen Robotics Reachy 2	Not Consumer-Ready	6	Aug 2026
Starship Delivery Robot	Not Consumer-Ready	4	Sep 2026