Facts

• Company: MagicLab
• Product type: Anthropomorphic Biped
• Status: active
• Website: https://www.magiclab.top/en/z1

Profile sections

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

Summary

MagicBot Z1 is MagicLab compact humanoid robot platform for research, demonstrations and commercial development. It combines bipedal mobility, perception hardware and high-torque joints for navigation, interaction and application-specific skill development.

Overview

MagicBot Z1 is MagicLab compact humanoid robot platform for research, demonstrations and commercial development. It combines bipedal mobility, perception hardware and high-torque joints for navigation, interaction and application-specific skill development.

Market context

MagicBot Z1 is a compact bipedal humanoid platform from MagicLab, positioned around high-dynamic movement, onboard sensing and developer-facing embodied AI experimentation.

• Target environment: Research labs, developer programs, indoor demonstrations and early field trials.
• Workflow context: Locomotion testing, balance recovery, perception demos, embodied AI development and general humanoid experimentation.
• Customer context: AI research labs; university robotics programs; embodied AI developers.
• Deployment model: Developer and research-oriented humanoid platform for labs, demonstrations and embodied AI experimentation.
• Commercial maturity: Early commercial — available as a developer platform with limited field deployment data.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on locomotion reliability, useful manipulation skills, developer ecosystem support and safe operation around people.
• Market position: Compact humanoid platform competing in the lower-cost developer and research segment rather than the full industrial humanoid deployment tier.
• Adjacent products: Unitree G1; ENGINEAI PM01; R1.

Audience

Developers

Workflow

Locomotion testing, balance recovery, perception demos, embodied AI development and general humanoid experimentation.

Capability

Whole-body control, Bipedal locomotion

Deployment environment

Research labs, developer programs, indoor demonstrations and early field trials.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Developers
• Workflow: Locomotion testing, balance recovery, perception demos, embodied AI development and general humanoid experimentation.
• Capability: Whole-body control, Bipedal locomotion
• Deployment environment: Research labs, developer programs, indoor demonstrations and early field trials.

Specifications

• Arm Span M: ~0.5 m
• Audio: microphone array; 5W speaker
• Battery: 15-cell battery, 10000mAh quick-release smart battery
• Battery Life H: ~2 h
• Charger: 62V 5A
• Compute: 8-core high-performance CPU
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6; Bluetooth 5.2
• Folded Dimensions Mm: 730 x 422 x 395
• Handheld Remote Control: true
• Head Dof: 1
• Head Z Range Deg: ±40 deg
• Hip Range Deg: P ±160 / R -30 to +110 / Y ±160 deg
• Knee Range Deg: 0-152 deg
• Lumbar Z Range Deg: ±160 deg
• Max Arm Payload Kg Development Version: 3 kg
• Max Arm Payload Kg Standard: 2 kg
• Max Knee Torque Nm Development Version: 130 nm
• Max Knee Torque Nm Standard: 100 nm
• Optional Hand: 11-DOF tactile dexterous hand
• Optional Wrist Dof: 2
• Ota Upgrade: true
• Secondary Development: development version only
• Sensors: 3D LiDAR; depth camera; binocular fisheye camera; head tactile sensor
• Shank Plus Thigh Length M: 0.6 m
• Single Arm Dof: 5
• Single Leg Dof: 6
• Standing Dimensions Mm: 1369 x 422 x 200
• Total Dof Development Version: 24-50
• Total Dof Standard: 24
• Waist Dof: 1

Tags

• Peer Group: Developer humanoid platform
• Capability: Whole-body control, Bipedal locomotion
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Developer platform, Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2026-03-03 - Demonstration - MagicBot Z1 Demonstrates Advanced Mobility at MWC 2026 - • At the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MagicLab showcased its humanoid robot, MagicBot Z1.
• 2025-08-17 - Demonstration - MagicBot Z1 wins bronze at World Humanoid Robot Games - • MagicLab's MagicBot Z1 won the bronze medal at the World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing from August 15 to 17, 2025.

Comparable Systems

• E1 - Noetix Robotics (松延动力) - Humanoid
• SA01 - ENGINEAI - Humanoid
• LimX Oli - LimX Dynamics - Humanoid Platform
• H2 - Unitree - Humanoid
• N2 - Noetix Robotics (松延动力) - Humanoid
• G1 - Unitree - Humanoid
• AI Sapiens K0 - ROBOTIS - Humanoid
• Booster K1 - Booster Robotics - Humanoid