The QUANTA X1 (量子1号) is a wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot developed by X Square Robot, a Shenzhen-based embodied AI company founded in 2023. Powered by the proprietary WALL-A foundation model, it combines a wheeled chassis with lightweight robotic arms providing up to 1 m working range, 20 degrees of freedom, and a maximum speed of 2 m/s. The X1 demonstrated autonomous food delivery navigating complex indoor and outdoor environments. X Square Robot is backed by ByteDance, Alibaba, Meituan, and HongShan with a $2.8 billion valuation.
Primary use case: General-purpose service automation including food delivery, hotel service, logistics, elderly care, and research in homes and commercial environments
Height
175 cm
Weight
65 kg
DOF
20
Height
175 cm
Weight
65 kg
Degrees of Freedom
20
Locomotion
wheeled
Hand Type
gripper
Autonomy Level
fully_autonomous
AI Capabilities
vision, planning, manipulation, learning, navigation
Availability
available
Primary Use Case
General-purpose service automation including food delivery, hotel service, logistics, elderly care, and research in homes and commercial environments
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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.