Dexmate Vega vs Reachy 2

Dexmate Vega 1 Pro is a wheeled humanoid research/developer platform from Dexmate in Santa Clara. It has two 7-DoF arms rated at 5 kg each, a 3-DoF torso reaching to 2.2 m, a 3-DoF head, a 4-DoF omni-directional base (24 total DoF), a stereo RGB head camera, front/rear LiDAR, four base RGB cameras, and NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor. Dexmate claims 20 hours of runtime and lists the robot as in production and sold to researchers/developers. A media report prices it at $89,999 with a $999 deposit and cites a lead time of about three months. Vega does not include AI; task behavior is built or taught by the customer using Python/C++/Rust APIs and teleoperation tools. No autonomous task execution or observable demo content was found beyond YouTube video titles. Several research labs are named as having used Vega, but no commercial deployment metrics exist

Reachy 2 by Pollen Robotics (now part of Hugging Face) is a purchasable open-source upper-body humanoid on an omnidirectional wheeled base. Official specs list 7-DoF arms with ~3 kg payload each, 136-166 cm adjustable height, up to 50 kg, stereo RGB-D, LiDAR, and ROS 2 + Python SDK. Press reports a $70,000 price and use at Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and major AI labs. It is explicitly a lab robot, not consumer, and is teleoperated or Python-controlled; no autonomous or reliability evidence was found. YouTube demos are title-only and cannot be used for capability inference