Comparison · 2 robots

Galaxea R1 · Hexagon AEON

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

Galaxea R1
Hexagon AEON

Galaxea AI

Galaxea R1

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 60/100 Plausible
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: Not tracked

Hexagon Robotics

Hexagon AEON

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 44/100 Concept Stage
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: Not tracked

Up to three

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

Galaxea R1Hexagon AEON

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.

These robots share no measured specification with enough published figures to plot. That is a gap in the record, not a finding about the robots.

04 Ownership

What the numbers leave out.

The trade-off

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

Galaxea R1

R1 ships with genuinely open tooling, datasets, ROS2, and an SDK, that lowers the barrier for outside researchers to build on it, but the same teleoperation-centric training approach that enables this openness means no specific task is independently confirmed as autonomous.

A concrete, Forbes-reported price range ($44,500-$64,000) is unusually specific for an early-stage humanoid platform, but it applies to an enterprise or research sale, not a consumer purchase, and could not be cross-checked against the manufacturer’s own site.

Hexagon AEON

Hexagon has never shipped a humanoid before this one, so the 1,000-unit Schaeffler commitment is a bet on a first-generation platform, not a proven one.

The pilot replaces no job outright yet: on-site safety staff remain present at every documented deployment, which is supervision, not autonomy.

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.

Galaxea R1

Any consumer or household use: Not sold to consumers; purchasable only by research institutions and enterprises, per every source reviewed.
Buyers seeking confirmed autonomous task completion: No independent source confirms R1 completing any specific task without human teleoperation; the vendor's own training method relies on direct human control of the arm.
Buyers needing to verify specifications against the manufacturer's own site: galaxea.ai was unreachable during this review (expired SSL certificate); specification claims here rely on a retailer listing, an unofficial user-guide mirror, and independent press.

Hexagon AEON

Households or consumer buyers of any kind: AEON is not sold, priced, or available to individual consumers; every documented deployment is an industrial pilot partnership.
Buyers needing unsupervised, hands-off operation today: Every documented deployment runs with on-site safety staff present; no hands-off or unsupervised use has been shown.
Smaller operations wanting a single unit or short trial: The disclosed commitment is roughly 1,000 units with Schaeffler; there is no published path to a small-scale or single-unit order.
Buyers requiring a proven safety or reliability record: No independent safety certification, failure-rate data, or multi-year track record exists yet for this first-generation platform.

What stays your job

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

Galaxea R1

After every use: Run the robot’s self-check sequence each operating session; Galaxea’s guide requires completing self-checks before any action on R1.
After every use: Recharge the chassis battery through the rear charging port; the charger’s red indicator confirms charging. Galaxea publishes no runtime or charge-time figures for R1.
As needed: Swap the removable battery at the bottom right of the chassis by reversing the installation steps.
As needed: Repair damaged cabling with the wiring harness repair kit Galaxea includes in the standard package.
As needed: Clean the head, wrist, and chassis camera windows and the LiDAR; the manufacturer publishes no cleaning interval.
As needed: Store the robot in a dry, well-ventilated environment between sessions, per the user guide.

Hexagon AEON

Daily: Battery charging between shifts; no published downtime or hot-swap figures.
Weekly: Sensor and camera calibration checks by on-site technical staff.
Monthly: Software and behavior updates pushed via Hexagon’s fleet management.
Every 3-6 months: Actuator and joint wear inspection; no published parts-replacement cadence.
As needed: Wheeled-leg component service; no independent failure or repair data published.

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
Galaxea R1	Not Consumer-Ready	8	Sep 2026
Hexagon AEON	Not Consumer-Ready	1	Sep 2026