Lightest humanoid robots

ALLEX

A 15-DoF robotic hand with smooth multi-finger motion and reliable grip strength.

OP3

QUESTER1 (Q1)

AgiBot QUESTER1 (Q1): tiny portable humanoid, 79 cm / 4 kg, backpack-sized. Miniaturised QDD joints, full-body force control. Voice + English tutoring + dance coaching. Open SDK / HDK; zero-code block programming.

Bridge

Nova A1

EMIEW4

K1

Booster K1 (Booster Robotics, 2025): compact 95 cm / 19.5 kg education + RoboCup KidSize humanoid. 22 DoF, 40-200 TOPS AI, $12,500. Boosted HTWK won RoboCup 2025 KidSize 11-0 in the final.

Dora

Noetix Dora: 100 cm / 20 kg compact humanoid for family chores, STEM and elder-care. 20 DoF base / 26 with optional 11-DoF gripper, 5 kg pick-and-place, 1 m/s on grass/snow/stairs. Jetson Orin + 3-depth cameras.

NIX

Lumos Robotics NIX: compact child-sized humanoid (80 cm / 20 kg) for entertainment + light service. Compact joint modules, 22.8 N·m rated / 102 N·m peak, 140 RPM. 2-3 km/h walking, 1.5-2 h runtime.

Domo

Affordable 90 cm developer humanoid by Rotaku (~$2,999, San Francisco). 23 DoF, ~2h battery, voice + LLM, demonstration-based whole-body policy learning. Aimed at AI/robotics researchers, students and small teams.

Sprout

Fauna Robotics Sprout (Jan 2026, acquired by Amazon Mar 2026): 107 cm / 22.7 kg soft-bodied developer humanoid. 29 DoF (6 arms / 5 legs / 2 neck), NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, ZED 2i stereo + ToF + IMU + mic array, 360° LED face. 3.5 h swappable battery. $50K.

Unitree R1

The R1 is a 1.22 m, 25 kg humanoid with 26 DoF for hobbyists, individual developers, and research labs. It uses a multimodal large language model for speech and image recognition.

Astra

Upper-body humanoid robot for safe human collaboration in interactive service and manufacturing settings. It is a 100 cm, 25 kg prototype with 24 DoF and 12 hand DoF.

SAO2

EngineAI SA02 / SAO2 (Aug 2025): anime-inspired companion humanoid for young users. 125 cm / 25 kg, 26+2 DoF, on-device LLM, dual HD cameras, high-fidelity speakers. $5,300 entry price.

Pepper

SoftBank Pepper (2014→discontinued 2021): legacy semi-humanoid kiosk robot, 120 cm with wheeled base, 20 DoF, tablet on chest. Emotion-recognition pioneer; production halted 2021 but units still operate worldwide.

Mirokaï

Enchanted Tools Mirokaï (Paris, 2024): 123 cm / 28 kg social humanoid on patented 3-DoF ball mobile base. 26 DoF, animated projector face, multi-LLM dialogue, 4 h battery. €17M seed, ~$30K/unit.

PHYBOT C1

PHYBOT C1: 128 cm / 28 kg compact embodied-AI humanoid. 25 DoF, 244 N·m max joint torque cycloidal gears. NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX + Intel Core i7. Plays badminton autonomously sub-second. ~4 h removable battery.

NEO

A tendon-driven home humanoid for chores and natural conversation. It has a built-in LLM and 22-DoF hands.

N2

Noetix N2: world's first humanoid with continuous-backflip capability. 118 cm / 30 kg, 18 DoF, 150 N·m peak torque, 3.5 m/s run, NVIDIA Jetson Orin (40 TOPS). $6,200 mass-production target.

Booster T1

Booster T1: AdultSize bipedal humanoid, RoboCup 2025 champion. 23 DoF (4-DoF arms, no end-effectors), Intel i7 + Jetson AGX Orin (~200 TOPS). Push-recovery to 15 N·s, auto stand-up. 50+ research labs use it.

ET1

Tianhe C1

Zerith Z1

Zerith AI Z1: bipedal sibling to Zerith H1. 27 DoF, 150 N·m peak joint torque, EtherCAT in-house comms, AI-driven energy efficiency. Stable navigation over irregular surfaces + balance under interference. Envisioned for robotic boxing.

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