Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: China
• Founded: 2022
• Website: https://www.astribot.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Supply chain
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

Astribot develops humanoid robots for whole-body manipulation and everyday physical tasks. Its S1 and newer T-series robots combine mobile humanoid hardware, dexterous operation and robot-learning systems for service, household and industrial demonstrations.

Market context

One of the strongest demonstrations of high-speed, high-precision manipulation in humanoid-form systems, pushing the upper bound of dexterity and task execution. Proprietary system: Astribot S1 (human-like upper body on wheeled base) Single canonical product; no product suite.

• Capability: Imitation learning and VLA model integration Teleoperation data capture Dexterous manipulation and multi-task generalization High-speed, high-precision task execution
• Strategic position: Strong demonstration of manipulation in humanoid-form systems Pushes upper bound of dexterity and embodied task execution

Products

• Astribot S1
• Astribot T1 - T1
• Lumo-1

Facts

• Website: https://www.astribot.com/
• HQ: Shenzhen, China
• Founded: 2022
• Segment: Humanoid
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-06-03 - Series B - $146M - Astribot Series B financing series exceeds RMB 1B - source: stcn.com

Investors

• Bohua Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
• Guoke Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
• Kede Education - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
• Liangxi Sci-Tech Innovation Phase II Parent Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
• ThunderSoft - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
• unnamed listed company - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
• Yangzhou Longtou Chiplet - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03
• Zhongbo Juli - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-03

Supply chain

OEM; X2-PRO S1-U upper with SEER base (2026-04-28).

• Layer: oem_builders
• Role types: oem_builder, system_provider
• Robotics categories: humanoid, industrial, logistics, x2-pro, mobility
• Profile confidence: high

Mobile humanoid manipulation company

Astribot develops S1, a mobile dual-arm humanoid robot focused on high-speed manipulation, household tasks, service scenarios and embodied AI research.

• Target environment: Homes, service environments, research labs, indoor manipulation testbeds and human-scale task settings.
• Deployment model: Humanoid robot platform development with APIs, simulation tools and teleoperation support for developers and early users.
• Customer context: Robotics developers, research teams, service robot users and organizations testing embodied AI manipulation.
• Workflow context: Dual-arm manipulation, imitation learning, household task execution, teleoperation, service interaction and embodied AI development.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage humanoid company with visible S1 demonstrations and developer-facing ecosystem positioning. Scaling depends on manipulation reliability, service-task fit, safety, and conversion from dem…
• Market position: Mobile humanoid developer focused on fast, precise manipulation rather than industrial biped deployment.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation reliability, safety, real-world generalization, developer support, service economics and moving beyond demonstrations.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes mobile humanoids, home manipulation robots, embodied AI platforms and service robotics.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-06-03 - Funding - Astribot Series B financing series exceeds RMB 1B - Astribot announced completion of a Series B financing series, saying it had completed three financings within roughly three months.
• 2026-05-27 - Product Launch - Astribot launches T1 semi-humanoid service robot platform - Astribot announced that T1 is available from CNY 89,900, approximately $13,165 in the launch post.
• 2025-12-09 - Research Publication - Astribot publishes Lumo-1 research paper on embodied reasoning and robotic control - Astribot researchers published the Lumo-1 paper describing a generalist vision-language-action mod…
• 2025-12-09 - Capability - Astribot introduces Lumo-1 model for embodied reasoning - Astribot introduced Lumo-1 as a generalist vision-language-action model designed to connect robot reasoning with robot action.
• 2024-04-24 - Product Launch - Astribot unveils Astribot S1 as its next-generation AI robot assistant - Astribot publicly introduced Astribot S1 as its next-generation AI robot assistant with a focus on speed, dexterity,…

Team

• Jie Lai - Founder - Founder row connects Astribot S1 to the Stardust Intelligence team and its work on high-speed humanoid and semi-humanoid manipulation.
• Lai Jie - Founder & CEO

Context tags

• Humanoid service robot builder - Peer Group
• Humanoid mobile manipulator builder - Peer Group
• Humanoid teleoperation - Workflow
• Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer
• Humanoid loco-manipulation - Workflow
• Humanoid development labs - Customer Environment

Customers and deployments

• Planned Partner Deployments - more than 1,000 robots within two years - 2025-09-02 - SEER Robotics - manufacturing, warehousing and logistics - Astribot and SEER Robotics target deployment of more than 1,000 humanoid ro…

Articles

• 2026-06-03 - Astribot is the latest Chinese unicorn - Astribot completed a Series B after unveiling T1, a lower-cost robot starting at RMB 89,900. - Korthos: /research/astribot-is-the-latest-chinese-unicorn