ergoCub vs LimX Oli

ergoCub is IIT and INAIL's research humanoid, standing 150 cm tall, weighing 55.7 kg, and designed to reduce physical strain on workers in industrial and hospital settings. Its strongest evidence is a peer-reviewed Nature Machine Intelligence figure showing collaborative payload lifting with a human and live walking on stage. Official IIT sources confirm the 2023 debut and ergonomic purpose, while secondary dossiers report about 10 kg load-bearing, NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier plus Intel i7 onboard compute, depth/LiDAR sensing, and research claims such as up to 43% energy reduction and DNN-driven locomotion. However, no battery, runtime, walking speed, total DoF, hand DoF, price, or customer deployment exists in the reviewed evidence; autonomy is mostly simulation-only or title-only

LimX Oli is a pre-order, 165 cm, 55 kg, 31-DoF biped research humanoid from LimX Dynamics, priced from RMB 158,000 (~$21,800). It has dual Intel RealSense depth cameras, a 6-axis IMU, modular design and slide-out battery, but no official payload, runtime, battery capacity or walking speed. The strongest public evidence is a secondary research summary reporting stair climbing of a 33-step spiral staircase in 12 seconds with zero falls, and benchmark returns of 0.85 for velocity tracking. Official video titles claim fully autonomous tennis ball picking and scalable autonomous deployment, but no transcripts or independent verification were found. No named customer deployment exists