Facts

• Company: HCBOT
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: prototype
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://www.hcfa.cn/

Profile sections

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

Summary

Qinglong Lite is HCBOT compact humanoid robot platform for embodied-AI development and research applications.

Overview

Qinglong Lite is HCBOT compact humanoid robot platform for embodied-AI development and research applications.

Market context

Low-cost, high-performance open-source humanoid robot co-developed by a local humanoid robot innovation center, HCBOT, and the Longyou Institute of Zhejiang University of Technology.

• Target environment: Research labs, industrial pilots, service demonstrations and structured environments where humanoid hardware can be tested or deployed.
• Workflow context: Locomotion, manipulation, human-robot interaction, embodied AI testing and task execution in controlled settings.
• Customer context: Robot developers, research teams, industrial partners and service operators evaluating humanoid systems.
• Deployment model: Prototype or development-stage product with public positioning and limited deployment proof.
• Commercial maturity: Publicly visible but still early, with maturity tied to demos, pilots and later customer evidence.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on safety, useful task coverage, manipulation reliability, operating time, support and proof outside demonstrations.
• Market position: HCBOT positions Qinglong Lite in the humanoid lane, where body format, autonomy and task evidence determine differentiation.
• Adjacent products: Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Unitree G1, Agility Digit

Audience

Developers

Workflow

Locomotion, manipulation, human-robot interaction, embodied AI testing and task execution in controlled settings.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Research labs, industrial pilots, service demonstrations and structured environments where humanoid hardware can be tested or deployed.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Developers
• Workflow: Locomotion, manipulation, human-robot interaction, embodied AI testing and task execution in controlled settings.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Research labs, industrial pilots, service demonstrations and structured environments where humanoid hardware can be tested or deployed.

Specifications

• Form Type: Compact humanoid robot
• Height: 1.4 m
• Deployment Context: World Artificial Intelligence Conference showcase
• Robot Platform: Qinglong Lite

Timeline / Research

• 2025-07-26 - Demonstration - HCBOT co-developed Qinglong Lite humanoid robot appears at WAIC 2025 - Qinglong Lite appeared at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai during the July 26 to July 29 e…