Astribot S1

Astribot's wheeled dual-arm humanoid, known for tendon-driven arms and fast, dexterous household demos.

Astribot S1 was developed by Shenzhen-based Astribot, with a demo video released in April 2024 and a public unveiling that same year at the World Robot Conference in Beijing. Its form is an omnidirectional wheeled base topped by a humanoid upper body: two 7-DoF arms plus a torso and head, with about twenty-some degrees of freedom in total. Its distinguishing feature is tendon-driven transmission, giving the arms speed and lightness; reported figures put its end-effector top speed at about 10 m/s and its per-arm payload at roughly 5–10 kg, though sources vary. Official videos showed folding laundry, pouring wine, tossing a pan, and putting things away at natural human speed, with most of these motions coming from teleoperated data collected and then reproduced with imitation learning. It represents a “legless, upper-body-manipulation-first” take on the wheeled humanoid approach.

ExampleIn S1's release video, it folds laundry and pulls a tablecloth out from under a cup without spilling it, all at natural human speed.

Related

Wheeled Humanoid Robot · Astribot · Tendon-Driven Actuation · Bimanual Manipulation · Imitation Learning · Household Tasks

Sources

Humanoid homebot tackles impressive array of household chores (New Atlas)
Astribot S1 Specs | Humanoid.guide

As of

2026-09