Humanoid robot daily rental prices fall to a few hundred yuan, as the rental market shifts from performances to real work

Daily rental prices for humanoid robots have fallen from several thousand to tens of thousands of yuan down to a few hundred yuan. Around the 2026 National Day holiday, nearly 30 companies will deploy thousands of devices in cultural tourism, retail, and other scenarios. The article compares deployment scale, depth of functions, and pricing logic between 2025 and 2026, citing cases such as AgiBot Lingxi X2 generating about 2.23 million yuan in cumulative sales over 3 days across a hundred stores, and robots at Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei averaging more than 400 pickups per day. It also notes that normalized operations and profitability after the Golden Week holiday remain unresolved challenges.