Astribot
Astribot (星尘智能, Stardust Intelligence) is a Shenzhen company that builds cable-driven ('rope-driven') wheeled humanoid robots: the Astribot S1, its half-body version S1-U, and the lower-priced T1. It develops the hardware, the Lumo embodied foundation model and Astribot OS in-house, and sells to research labs, retail and cultural-tourism operators, and industrial partners. It says it was the first company to mass-produce cable-driven AI robots. In October 2026 it was valued at RMB 15 billion after four funding rounds since March 2026.
3 humanoid models · 8 deployments on file · researched 2026-11-08
- Headquarters
- Shenzhen, China
- Founded
- 2022
- Ownership
- Private
- Website
- astribot.com
- Focus
- research, retail, entertainment, industrial, logistics, education, home
- Investors
- Shenzhen Toposcend Capital (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), Hongtai Fund, Guanghua Sunshine (Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund), Shanheng Capital, Xianmu, Bohua Capital (Liangxi Sci-Tech Innovation Phase II Fund), Yangzhou Longtou, Zhongbo Juli, ThunderSoft, Kede Education, Guoke Investment (CAS Investment), Ant Group, Jinqiu Fund, Yunqi Partners, Matrix Partners China
- Production
- Deliveries in the thousands of units started at the end of 2025. The company says the S and T series together have a production capacity of 'around 10,000 units' (no time period given). The S series has had thousand-unit-scale orders since September 2025. ↗
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Humanoids
Each model as the maker has shown it. Specs are maker-stated; a dash means no source states the figure.
| Model | Status | Announced | Height | Weight | DoF | Payload | Runtime | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astribot T1 wheeled ↗Cable-driven, 23 DoF not counting end-effectors, 0.55 × 0.56 m chassis, 'nearly 25 kg lighter than the S1', swappable end-effectors and compute backpacks, recharges in under an hour. Shipping since June 2026. | Commercial | 2026-05 | 153 cm | — | 23 | 5 kg | — | starting price RMB 89,900; the company gives no USD price |
| Astribot S1 wheeled ↗Cable-driven wheeled humanoid with two arms. Official specs: 7 DoF per arm, 5 kg payload per arm at horizontal reach, end-effector speed ≥10 m/s, ±0.1 mm repeatability, 4–6 hours endurance with plug-in support. The research edition supports VR teleoperation. | Commercial | 2024-04 | 170 cm | 80 kg | — | 5 kg | — | not published |
| Astribot S1-U other ↗Half-body (upper-body) version of the S1, sold for dexterous hand tasks. SEER Robotics mounts it on its own mobile chassis to make a wheeled two-arm industrial robot. | Commercial | — | — | — | — | — | — | not published |
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Deployments
Named customers, what the robots do there, and how far it has gone.
| Customer | What | When | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEER Robotics ↗ | Strategic partnership to deploy more than 1,000 humanoid robots in manufacturing, warehousing and logistics within two years | 2025-09 | Order |
| Golden Horse Amusement (Jinma) ↗ | 'Robot MART' robot-run retail kiosks under a thousand-unit-level order. The first opened at Time Adventure Amusement Park, Zhongshan (popcorn and drinks); batch deliveries began on 25 Dec 2025 | 2025-11 | In service |
| Lewa Entertainment ↗ | Robots selling blind boxes in 'Intelligent Adoption Store' units at malls in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou | 2025-12 | In service |
| ThunderSoft ↗ | Thousand-unit industrial and commercial service order, also meant to help expansion abroad (ThunderSoft also invested in the Series B) | 2026 | Order |
| Jiangdu Economic Development Zone (Yangzhou) ↗ | Jointly building an application innovation centre worth around RMB 100 million, for cultural-tourism and hotel use | 2026 | Pilot |
| Lingyi Precision Industry ↗ | Industrial cooperation/order (named among customers since H2 2025) | 2025 | Order |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗ | Scientific-research customer (named among customers since H2 2025) | 2025 | Order |
| CCTV.com ↗ | Named among commercial-service customers | 2025 | Order |
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Dated facts
Milestones, orders, factories and filings, newest first.
- 2026-11At Hong Kong FinTech Week, CFO Alex Fang estimated Astribot's robot production costs at roughly one-third of industry peers'. He said third-party testing showed a service life of more than six years and that the company plans more deliveries plus consumer robots in 2027. ↗
- 2026-10Closed a RMB 1 billion round at a RMB 15 billion valuation, led by Shenzhen Toposcend Capital (Shenzhen Investment Holdings). It was the fourth round since March 2026. ↗
- 2026-07Launched the Lumo-2 embodied foundation model in July 2026, then the SmoothRL online reinforcement-learning framework in September 2026. ↗
- 2026-06Series B closed. Three rounds in three months raised more than RMB 1 billion in total, and the valuation passed RMB 10 billion. ↗
- 2026-06T1 shipments began in June 2026 at a starting price of RMB 89,900. ↗
- 2025-11Robot MART robot retail stores have been rolled out in six Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, since November 2025. ↗
- 2025-09Partnered with SEER Robotics to deploy more than 1,000 humanoid robots in industrial settings within two years. ↗
- 2025Released the Lumo-1 reasoning foundation model and the DuoCore fast-slow model in 2025. DuoCore runs in real retail settings across China. ↗
- 2024-04The S1 debuted with a 'Hello World' video showing it pulling a tablecloth from under stacked wine glasses. The company quoted a top speed of 10 m/s. ↗
- 2022-12Astribot was founded in Shenzhen in December 2022 by Lai Jie, who had been the first employee of Tencent's Robotics X lab and led Baidu's Xiaodu robot team. ↗
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Not yet confirmed
Claims seen in only one non-official place. Shown so they can be checked, not as findings.
- T1 height: Gasgoo says 1.53 m and Pandaily says 1.55 m. Pandaily gives a weight of 66 kg, but Gasgoo's 'nearly 25 kg lighter than the 80 kg S1' implies about 55 kg, so weightKg is left null.
- New Atlas (Apr 2024), citing Astribot's site at the time, reported a 10 kg payload per arm for the S1. The current official spec page says 5 kg.
- The S1 research edition was reported at about RMB 500,000 in Chinese industry reports cited by review/aggregator sites (robozaps etc.). This was not seen on an official page.
- Matrix Partners China, Yunqi Partners and Jinqiu Fund (described as ByteDance-affiliated) as earlier backers, and Golden Horse/SEER deployments of 'over a thousand AI robots': named only by BigGo Finance (an aggregator). Tencent-, Alibaba- and ByteDance-related institutions as investors: 36Kr only.
- JD.com as a customer: only in EqualOcean, citing China Fund News, and in BigGo.
- Series A/A+ rounds in April 2025 co-led by Jinqiu Fund and Ant Group: seen only in web-search summaries (ebrun/Caixin), not fetched.
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Sources
Retrieved 2026-11-08.
- About Us — Astribot
- Astribot Products — Astribot
- Lumo 1: Deep Reasoning-Action Foundation Model — Astribot
- Astribot Reaches RMB 15 Billion Valuation After Four Funding Rounds... (PR Newswire, 2026-11-03) — Bastille Post / PR Newswire
- Shenzhen's Stardust Intelligence Secures Over 1B Yuan in Series B Financing, Valued at Over 10B Yuan — 36Kr Europe
- Robots Begin Work on Christmas Day in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou — 36Kr Europe
- Seeds | Astribot Completes Over 1 Billion Yuan Series B Financing Round — Gasgoo
- Astribot Raises CNY 1 Billion at Reported CNY 15 Billion Valuation to Expand Robot Production — EqualOcean
- China's Astribot, Seer Ally to Put Over 1,000 Humanoid Robots Into Industrial Use — Yicai Global
- Astribot, SEER Robotics to deploy over 1,000 humanoid robots — Shenzhen Daily
- Astribot Hits Billion-Dollar Valuation After Rapid Series B Close — Pandaily
- China's Astribot Raises Fourth Round in Six Months, Valuation Jumps to 15 Billion Yuan — BigGo Finance
- Video of super-fast, super-smooth humanoid robot will drop your jaw — New Atlas