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MagicLab MagicBot Z1 · Persona AI Gen 1

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.

MagicLab MagicBot Z1
Persona AI Gen 1

MagicLab

MagicLab MagicBot Z1

Autonomy: II Assisted Autonomy
Score: 47/100 Concept Stage
Readiness: Early Stage
Price: Not tracked

Persona AI

Persona AI Gen 1

Autonomy: II Assisted Autonomy
Score: 44/100 Concept Stage
Readiness: Promising Progress
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

MagicLab MagicBot Z1Persona AI Gen 1

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.

MagicLab MagicBot Z1

Z1 sold through a mainstream consumer storefront, JD.com, is an unusually direct-to-market signal for a humanoid this early, but the units sold were tied to a one-time nationally broadcast performance, not an ongoing consumer retail listing.

A self-developed autonomous-navigation algorithm is claimed on the official spec page, but the same page bundles a handheld remote control and does not disclose which mode is actually used in any given deployment.

Persona AI Gen 1

Founding pedigree (NASA Valkyrie, IHMC, Figure AI) is exceptional; the hardware itself remains unpublished in spec and unverified in autonomous task performance.

RaaS pricing eliminates upfront capital barriers, but no rate card or contract terms have been disclosed publicly.

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.

MagicLab MagicBot Z1

Any household or general consumer use: Sold to industry, research, and education buyers; the JD.com Gala sellout does not establish a household product or use case.
Buyers seeking confirmed autonomous operation: The manufacturer's autonomous-navigation claim is unconfirmed independently, and its earlier public demonstrations were confirmed remotely controlled.
Buyers needing confirmed pricing: No price was published for the JD.com Gala listing or found in any other source reviewed; third-party estimates are explicitly unconfirmed.

Persona AI Gen 1

Consumer or home use of any kind: Persona AI's platform is engineered for industrial sites and heavy manufacturing. No home, consumer, or light-commercial deployment is planned or supported.
Operators requiring autonomous unsupervised operation today: Current pilots are supervised data-collection programs. End-to-end autonomous task execution without on-site human oversight is not a documented capability at this stage.
Organizations needing a commercially available product now: No purchase path, retail channel, or confirmed ship date exists. Robotics-as-a-service contracts are the only engagement model, and commercial deployment timelines remain in progress.
Warehouse, retail, or service-sector environments: Persona AI targets high-risk, high-value work inside heavy industry. Warehouse, retail, and service-sector deployments are outside the stated product roadmap. Heavy-industrial logistics is not: POSCO has scheduled an on-site proof of concept from February 2026 covering steel coil handling and fastening crane belts onto steel products during unloading.

What stays your job

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

MagicLab MagicBot Z1

Not recorded for this robot.

Persona AI Gen 1

As needed: Inspect and clean sensors and camera lenses after welding or fabrication operation; cadence not documented by manufacturer.
As needed: Check joint actuators and tendon-driven hand mechanisms for wear or contamination in high-particulate environments.
As needed: Software model updates via Persona AI service team; update cadence not disclosed.
As needed: Battery charge cycle per shift; targeting two work shifts per day per manufacturer, but specific charge time not published.
Seasonally: Full platform inspection by Persona AI technicians; schedule and cost not disclosed under RaaS model.

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
MagicLab MagicBot Z1	Verified	7	Aug 2026
Persona AI Gen 1	Pre-Release	15	Aug 2026