Astribot unveils $12.5K tendon-driven humanoid T1 at WRC, betting on full-stack robotics
量子位 · wechat · 2026-08-19
A detailed on-site report from the WRC expo covers Astribot (星尘智能): its new tendon-driven humanoid robot T1 debuted at just ¥89,900 ($12.5K), far below the industry's typical ¥300K–1M pricing.
The company's full-stack approach has three layers: Lumo-2, an implicit world-action foundation model for home scenarios (22 real-robot household tasks published, claiming wins over Pi0.5 and FAST-WAM); DuoCore, a fast-slow dual system for deploying models on low-compute commercial hardware; and its self-developed tendon-driven body, which mimics human tendons for dexterity and safety. Its AOS operating system embeds AI into low-level scheduling, letting users generate robot apps from a single sentence, backed by a hackathon.
The article argues full-stack is the industry direction—echoing iPhone's vertical integration and Tesla's chip self-reliance—citing Figure, 1X, and Tesla. Astribot's robots are already deployed in pharmacies (with Ant Lingbo, Guoda), retail (with JD), and industrial logistics, after a ¥1B+ Series B valuing it above ¥10B.
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