1X EVE vs Sophia

1X EVE is a wheeled humanoid from 1X Technologies (Norway/US) with a self-balancing wheeled base, 188 cm, 87 kg, 15 kg payload, 4 m/s top speed, and 6-hour official runtime. It is designed for security, logistics, and embodied AI data collection, with 25 DoF, 1-DoF grippers, HDR cameras, and shared autonomy. The strongest evidence is an Inverse-reported 2024 multi-robot voice-command office-tidying demo and directory claims of unnamed customer deployments since 2022; the weakest areas are no named customer metrics, no price, conflicting specs, and no independent autonomy verification. EVE is older than 1X's NEO and current availability is unclear

Sophia is a social humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics, activated in 2016, best known for media appearances and lifelike facial expressions. It has a patented Frubber skin, 83 total DoF per Wevolver spec (though overview says 74), 167 cm, 20 kg, and a wheeled base; around January 2018 it was upgraded with functional legs and walking. Its main evidence is in human interaction—over 60 facial expressions, many high-profile interviews, Saudi citizenship, and UNDP title. However, dialogue is largely scripted via decision tree, an insider ethnography says the robot is fragile and operationally unreliable, and no autonomous task demos exist. Hanson Robotics announced mass production plans in 2021, but no public price, named customer deployment, or independent benchmark was found