The Cyborg Index · September 2026 edition
Best Humanoid Robots — September 2026
“Best” here means one thing only: the strongest read of what a humanoid can demonstrably do, scored from the public record. Vendor claims and staged demonstrations are counted but capped — they cannot lift a score past the point where independent reporting or operational results are needed.
Agibot A2 (Agibot (Zhiyuan Robotics)) leads the humanoids in the September 2026 Cyborg Index, ahead of UBTech Walker S (UBTech) and Figure 03 (Figure AI). All 13 humanoids in this edition are scored on the same 40 capability measures, with unevidenced measures counted as zero rather than skipped.
Ranks are positions in the full 13-humanoid cohort, so they stay comparable with the complete Index and with side-by-side comparisons.
Questions
- Which humanoid robot ranks highest right now?
- In the September 2026 edition, Agibot A2 from Agibot (Zhiyuan Robotics) holds the highest Capability score in this list. That is a reading of the public evidence record at sign-off, not a claim about undisclosed internal capability.
- How is this list ordered?
- By Capability score: each humanoid is read across eight capability axes and 40 sub-axes, each scored 0–5 from public evidence, then levelled so the same number means the same thing on every robot. Sub-axes with no public evidence score zero over a fixed denominator, so silence is never rewarded.
- How often does this list change?
- Monthly. Each edition is dated and kept as published; this page re-states itself from the newest signed-off edition rather than being rewritten by hand.
How the scores are built: methodology.