The Quanta X2 is a general-purpose wheeled humanoid robot by X Square Robot (Shenzhen, China), backed by $100M Series A+ led by Alibaba Cloud. Standing 172 cm tall and weighing ~95 kg, it features 62 degrees of freedom, a 6-DOF omnidirectional wheeled chassis, and five-fingered hands (20 DOF per hand) with sub-millimeter repeatability. It runs the WALL-A Vision-Language-Action foundation model for autonomous household, hotel, and light industrial service tasks.
Primary use case: household assistance and commercial service
Height
172 cm
Weight
95 kg
DOF
62
Payload
6 kg
Height
172 cm
Weight
95 kg
Degrees of Freedom
62
Locomotion
wheeled
Max Speed
3.6 km/h
Hand Type
5-finger dexterous
Payload
6 kg
Max Lift/Arm
10 kg
Autonomy Level
semi_autonomous
AI Capabilities
vision, planning, manipulation, navigation, learning
Onboard Compute
Full-stack proprietary WALL-A operational large model
Availability
commercial
Primary Use Case
household assistance and commercial service
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Feather Robotics Inc., a startup based in East Palo Alto, CA, has launched a humanoid robot called Feather with a starting price of $29,990. The two-armed mobile humanoid is designed as an open platform for physical AI, with each arm offering seven degrees of freedom, omnidirectional wheeled base, 10 hours of battery life, and an open SDK. Unlike competitors such as Figure, Tesla, Unitree, Agibot, and 1X that build both humanoid bodies and AI foundation models, Feather offers only the body, letting customers run models from Nvidia, Skild, or Physical Intelligence on it.
Boston Dynamics unveiled a new four-finger hand for its Atlas humanoid robot, featuring 13 degrees of freedom including a four-DOF opposable thumb and dense tactile pressure sensors. The design was optimized for complex manipulation tasks such as in-hand object reorientation, slip recovery, and tool operation including drills, grinders, and welding torches. The company deliberately chose four fingers over a five-finger human-like hand to reduce cost, size, and failure points while maintaining the dexterity needed for industrial work.