Meta built a home robot. You cannot buy it.

Meta says the home robot it built is not for sale. The Next Web, citing a November 1, 2026 report by Jyoti Mann in The Information, says the prototype is called Max inside the company. Fourier, a robotics firm in Shanghai, helped build the first unit in about three months.

Max stands about 1.5 meters, close to five feet, and weighs about 48 kg (106 pounds). It uses an Nvidia Jetson Thor chip. People familiar with the project described a screen that can mimic a face, speakers, and five-fingered hands meant for small objects. Li-Chen Miller, Meta's vice president of product for robotics, spent almost two months at Fourier's factory in Shanghai. Meta then showed Max to some of its own staff at an internal robotics meeting in late August.

Max 2 is already in the works

A second prototype has been underway since September. Max 2 is due a new torso, better hands, a projector, and extra sensors so it can deal with stairs. One person familiar with the work said there is still no date for a humanoid a customer could order. Meta told The Information that the Fourier collaboration is internal research and experimentation, and that it has no plans to sell these units.

The same account says Meta wants a humanoid as a body for Muse, its AI assistant, with housework as the long aim. The same week, Nvidia agreed to invest $3 billion in Meta and to do more work on Muse. In May, Meta bought Assured Robot Intelligence, a San Diego startup that writes software to help robots read how people behave. The Next Web attributes that purchase to a SiliconANGLE report, not to a Meta store page.

The photos are not Max

Pictures traveling with the story are easy to misread. The Next Web's photo is Fourier's GR-3, a 165 cm companion the company showed in August 2025. It is not Max. Other write-ups have used a factory line of white humanoids on wheeled stands, or a living-room render with a Muse logo on the back. None of those is a published photo of this prototype. Until Meta or Fourier releases one, treat the pictures as stand-ins.

Max is not going into the HomeBotRadar catalog. There is no price and no cart, and Meta's line is that these units are not for sale. If you want a home humanoid with a public order page, NEO Gamma is still $20,000 to own or $499 a month. Unitree G1 lists from $13,500 and is often backordered. Optimus Gen 2 still has no checkout.