Head to head
Figure 03 vs Sophia
Figure 03 (Figure AI, no public price) against Sophia (Hanson Robotics, no public price), side by side on price, realism, specifications and availability.
The short version
- Sophia scores higher on our Realism Index: 40/100 to Figure 03's 38. The widest gap is face (70 vs 8).
- Neither has a public price.
- Figure 03 is announced but not on sale; Sophia is still a concept.
Composed from the two directory records, so it updates when they do.
Figure 0338/100
Sophia40/100
Realism Index sub-scores — six weighted dimensions built from public evidence. How we score
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|---|---|---|
| Status | Announced | Concept |
| Type | Consumer | Humanoid |
| Form | Full body | Torso |
| Presents as | Non-gendered | Female-presenting |
| Price | Undisclosed; a ~$20k home target has been reported | Not sold to consumers — a research and exhibition platform. The desktop Little Sophia retails around $149. |
| Subscription | — | — |
| Availability | In-home testing · no sale date | Operational since 2016 |
| Origin | USA | Hong Kong |
| Realism index | 38/100 | 40/100 |
| Height | 168 cm · 5 ft 6 in | ~167 cm · 5 ft 6 in (with legs; usually shown as a torso on a base) |
| Weight | ~60 kg | — |
| Skin & materials | Washable textile covers with foam pinch-protection | Frubber face and neck; transparent rear skull; decorative body |
| Actuation | Actuators ~2× faster than Figure 02; 16-DoF hands | 30+ motors in the head and face |
| Power | 2 kW wireless charging via foot coils | — |
| Runtime | ~5 hours (est.) | — |
| AI & conversation | Helix vision-language-action model; full-body autonomy | Hybrid — scripted dialogue, a chatbot, OpenCog reasoning and LLMs; neural-net face and emotion recognition |
| Voice | Natural language via Helix; speaker ~4× louder than F.02 | Synthesised speech; primarily English |
| Mobility | Bipedal walking | Very limited — static or wheeled; a legged variant has been demoed but barely walks |
| Expressions | No humanlike face | 60+ facial expressions; gaze tracking |
| Languages | — | Primarily English; multilingual demos |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi; 10 Gbps mmWave data offload | Wi-Fi; cameras in the eyes and chest |