Q1
Backpack-sized 0.8-meter humanoid with full-body force control for research, tinkering, and home interaction
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Future
How it stands in your space.
Side-by-side with a 180 cm adult, so you can feel the robot's footprint, height, and presence before it ever rolls in.
Compared with a 180 cm adult, Q1 stands at approximately waist-to-chest height.
180 cm adult
Specifications
What this robot can do.
- Obstacle avoidance
- Multi-floor
- Elevator support
- Voice interaction
- Screen interaction
- Autonomous charging
- Fleet management
- Indoor
- Outdoor
Should you deploy it?
0–100 — higher is stronger, except where noted.
How operationally ready this robot is for production deployment today.
Confidence in the published ROI numbers — how likely the savings actually materialize.
Share of the human task this category can credibly offload.
Fit with your target environment — lighting, floor type, congestion.
Expected maintenance load and downtime risk. Lower is better.
Long-horizon strategic upside — where the platform points 3+ years out.
Too early to call — Qiyuan Q1 launched in late 2025 with no public pricing or availability windows; creator-oriented design (open SDK/HDK, 3D-printable shell) suggests niche appeal to researchers and hobbyists rather than commercial operators seeking ROI, but real-world throughput and reliability data do not yet exist.
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When to deploy this.
- Embodied AI research labs testing force control and manipulation algorithms on portable hardware
- Maker and hobbyist communities building custom robotic shells and behavior logic via 3D printing and open-source tools
- Home environments requiring natural-language companion interaction and tabletop task assistance
When to skip it.
- No public pricing or pre-order channels announced; deployment timeline and cost per unit remain undisclosed
- Limited functional scope — marketed for tinkering and research, not labor substitution or high-throughput logistics
- Durability and software maturity unproven in production environments; relies on early-adopter community for debugging
What's verified, what's estimated.
Robofy separates manufacturer-confirmed facts from operator estimates. Anything not yet press-sourced or supplier-confirmed is tagged so you can decide how much weight to give it.
Height, design philosophy, and launch date from Gasgoo reporting (January 2026). Capabilities and target use cases (research, making, home interaction) from official launch announcement and press coverage. Weight reference ('one-eighth' of full-size units) from Interesting Engineering. No payloads, battery life, speed, or detailed dimensions available in manufacturer or press sources. Pricing and commercial availability remain unpublished as of research date (July 2026). Open-source architecture and 3D-printable shell mentioned across Gasgoo and Interesting Engineering coverage.
From rollout to recharge.
- 01
Teach by demonstration
Engineers walk the humanoid through the target task, recording motion and contact data.
- 02
Train task policy
Sensor traces feed a learned policy that generalizes the demonstrated behavior across the workspace.
- 03
Whole-body manipulation
The robot executes the task with full-body coordination — handling tools, totes, or load points autonomously.
- 04
Pilot loop & refine
Failures and exceptions feed back into training; the policy improves with each shift logged.
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Scene preview · arriving in Phase 2
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