Dexmate Vega vs Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1

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

Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1 is a wheeled bimanual mobile manipulator (140 cm tall, 131 kg, two 7-DoF arms, ±0.05 mm repeatability, 20/26 DOF, 1.5 m/s) sold as a research platform for $80,000 (commercial $120,000). It has LiDAR for autonomous movement, force/torque sensors, and supports teleoperation via Master Arm or VR. Evidence includes official specs and pre-order announcement, but no named customer deployments, no autonomous task execution, and all video evidence is title-only without transcript or content review. The robot is purchasable but unproven in real-world use