AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics) · general-purpose humanoid
RAISE A1
Yuanzheng / Expedition A1
AgiBot's first full-size biped, about 1.75 m tall with 49 or more joints. Sources give 53 kg or 55 kg; it was never mass-produced and led to the A2 series.
- Price
- —Never sold; at launch AgiBot targeted a price under 200,000 yuan (about $30,000).
- Height
- 175 cmTaller than 73%
- Weight
- 53 kgHeavier than 37%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 7.0 km/hFaster than 75%
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Shown just six months after AgiBot was founded by ex-Huawei engineer Peng Zhihui.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics)Company · founded 2023 · Shanghai, ChinaValued at about $2.1 billion (PitchBook, March 2025); targeting a Hong Kong IPO
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
RAISE A1 (Yuanzheng / Expedition A1) is taller than 73% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
RAISE A1 (Yuanzheng / Expedition A1) is heavier than 37% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
RAISE A1 (Yuanzheng / Expedition A1) is faster than 75% of the 122 other humanoids that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
RAISE A1 (Yuanzheng / Expedition A1) has more joints than 83% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: payload, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current humanoids.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 49 joints
- Actuators & motors
- PowerFlow integrated quasi-direct-drive joints: 350+ Nm peak, 1.6 kg each, planetary reducers under 10:1, coaxial dual encoders, liquid cooling, in-house vector-control driver. 49+ DoF overall.
- Hands
- SkillHand: 12 active and 5 passive DoF, all drives inside the hand, visual/tactile fingertip sensors; swappable tools such as screwdrivers and drills.
- Sensors & vision
- Microphone array, LiDAR, RGB-D camera, visual fingertip sensors.
- Compute
- 200 TOPS (as listed by AgiBot).
- Battery & power
- Not published; liquid cooling cited for longer operation per charge.
- AI & software
- EI-Brain hierarchy (cloud superbrain, brain, cerebellum, brainstem); WorkGPT task-level multimodal model; VLM trained on AgiBot's robot task dataset.
- Other details
- Walks up to 7 km/h; 5 kg per arm.
Lineage
Every AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics) humanoid in order.
- RAISE A1 (Yuanzheng / Expedition A1)2023Retired
Lingxi X12024Research
AGIBOT A2-Max (Yuanzheng A2-Max)2024Prototype
AGIBOT A2-W (Yuanzheng A2-W)2024Commercial
Yuanzheng A22024Commercial
AGIBOT Genie G12024Commercial
Lingxi X22025Commercial
AGIBOT Genie G22025Commercial
AGIBOT Q12025Prototype
AGIBOT A32026Commercial
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Watch RAISE A1 (Yuanzheng / Expedition A1)
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedNever sold; at launch AgiBot targeted a price under 200,000 yuan (about $30,000).
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Prototype; not sold as a product.
- Where it is sold or used
- China
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- IDC: AgiBot led H1 2026 humanoid shipments
AgiBot shipped over 8,600 humanoids (about 35% of ~25,000) and reached 20,000 cumulative units in September 2026 (company release citing IDC).
AgiBot - Omdia ranks AgiBot first in 2025 shipments
Omdia counted 5,168 AgiBot humanoids, 39% of the global market.
TechNode - AgiBot launches Expedition A1
1.75 m, 53 kg humanoid with PowerFlow joints; AgiBot targeted a price under 200,000 yuan.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | RAISE A1 (Yuanzheng / Expedition A1)AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics) |  StompyK-Scale LabsSame job: research · Both walk · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2023-08-18 | 2024 |
| Status | Retired | Discontinued |
| Height | 175 cm | 122 cm |
| Weight | 53 kg | — |
| Joints | 49 | — |
| Speed | 7 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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