Facts

• Company: DexForce
• Product type: Robot
• Status: prototype
• Website: https://www.dexforce.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

W1 is DexForce wheeled humanoid robot for industrial automation and service tasks. It combines a humanoid upper body with a mobile base, dual arms, perception and high-frequency joint control for handling and manipulation around workstations.

Overview

W1 is DexForce wheeled humanoid robot for industrial automation and service tasks. It combines a humanoid upper body with a mobile base, dual arms, perception and high-frequency joint control for handling and manipulation around workstations.

Market context

Wheeled mobile manipulator with humanoid-style upper body.

• Target environment: Industrial, retail and service environments where wheeled mobility and dual-arm manipulation can handle structured tasks.
• Workflow context: Dual-arm manipulation, autonomous wheeled mobility, task deployment, retail service work and industrial handling.
• Customer context: Industrial operators, retail automation teams, service sites and partners evaluating mobile manipulation platforms.
• Deployment model: Prototype product family with W1 Pro and W1 Core variants in DexForce's mobile manipulation lineup.
• Commercial maturity: Prototype-stage platform with public positioning and limited commercial deployment proof.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task generalization, manipulation reliability, safety, fleet integration and Sim2Real performance at customer sites.
• Market position: Wheeled humanoid-style platform aimed at faster task deployment without the mobility burden of bipedal walking.
• Adjacent products: Kinisi 01, Maker H01, Quanta X2, AgileX Cobot Magic

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Dual-arm manipulation, autonomous wheeled mobility, task deployment, retail service work and industrial handling.

Capability

Remote operation

Deployment environment

Industrial, retail and service environments where wheeled mobility and dual-arm manipulation can handle structured tasks.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Dual-arm manipulation, autonomous wheeled mobility, task deployment, retail service work and industrial handling.
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment environment: Industrial, retail and service environments where wheeled mobility and dual-arm manipulation can handle structured tasks.

Specifications

• Arm Dof: 7 DoF
• Dual Arm Payload Kg: 20 kg
• Runtime Hours: 8 h

Tags

• Peer Group: Mobile manipulation robot
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment Environment: Public interaction space
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2026-02-28 - Partnership - DexForce signs strategic partnership with WeCook and plans W1 Pro deployments into WeCook and Hung Fook Tong sites - DexForce announced a strategic partnership with WeCook under which the DexF…
• 2026-01-20 - Capability - DexForce open-sources EmbodiChain for embodied-model training with fully generated data - DexForce announced the open-sourcing of EmbodiChain, its embodied-model training framework built around…
• 2025-07-10 - Funding - DexForce announces A1 and A2 financing rounds worth several hundred million yuan - DexForce announced that it had closed A1 and A2 rounds totaling several hundred million yuan.
• 2024-05-01 - Funding - DexForce completes strategic funding round led by Lenovo Capital - Caixin's July 2025 coverage states that DexForce completed a strategic fundraising round in May 2024 led by Lenovo Capital.
• 2024-01-01 - Product Launch - DexForce launches the DexForce W1 humanoid robot - Caixin's July 2025 funding coverage states that DexForce launched the DexForce W1 in January 2024 as a wheeled humanoid robot.

Comparable Systems

• Model-T - Telexistence Inc. - Mobile Manipulator
• R-Noid - Robot.com - Mobile Manipulator
• GoMate Mini - GAC Group - Semi Humanoid