The Zerith H1 is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Zerith Robotics (零宇机器人), a Hefei-based startup founded in January 2025. Designed specifically for hospitality and service environments such as hotels and venues, it combines a humanoid upper body with articulated arms on a wheeled base, standing 180 cm tall with 23 degrees of freedom, 10 kg payload, and a 3.5-hour battery life. Priced at RMB 99,000, it has entered mass production and has been deployed in China and exported to Malaysia.
Primary use case: Home Assistance
Height
180 cm
Weight
55 kg
DOF
23
Payload
5 kg
Height
180 cm
Weight
55 kg
Degrees of Freedom
23
Locomotion
Wheeled
Max Speed
5.4 km/h
Payload
5 kg
Max Lift/Arm
5 kg
Availability
Available
Primary Use Case
Home Assistance
Publication date: April 2027Source: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Volume 104Author(s): Chen Chen, Liang Du, Zhengtao Hu, Bin Fang, Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada, Jianjun Yuan
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has announced the upgrade and open-source release of LingBot-VLA 2.0, a next-generation vision-language-action model for robotics pre-trained on 60,000 hours of real-world physical data from 20 robot morphologies. The model demonstrates superior cross-morphology generalization, outperforming π0.5 and GR00T N1.7 on dual-arm manipulation benchmarks and achieving 3x inference efficiency improvement with latency under 150ms. Robbyant is currently conducting commercial pilots with hardware partners Leju and Ti5Robot, as well as enterprise customers GuoDa Drugstore and Longsheng Technology in retail, logistics, and industrial environments.