Astribot Timeline

Events

• 2026-10-13 - Funding - Astribot raises RMB1B at RMB15B valuation - TouKong Donghai led the round; Hongtai Fund, the Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund managed by Guanghua Sunshine, Shanheng Capital and returning investor Xianmu participated. The capital will support model iteration, hiring, commercialization and production-capacity… - source: news.pedaily.cn
• 2026-09-29 - Product Launch - Astribot brings T1 to North America with immediate US availability - The company advertised immediate delivery and modular options for end effectors, computing modules and sensors. T1 stands approximately 1.55 m tall, weighs about 66 kg and provides 23 degrees of freedom excluding end effectors, with up to 5 kg payload per… - source: einpresswire.com
• 2026-08-30 - Research Publication - Astribot publishes SmoothRL online-learning results on S1 - Training separates committed, executed and discarded actions so policy gradients use only actions the robot physically executes. After 250 rollout episodes, success reached 94% for tossing, 83% for pen capping and 90% for box opening. The training system… - source: arxiv.org
• 2026-07-13 - Research Publication - Astribot publishes Lumo-2 world-action model research - The report introduces a latent world-action model that reasons over world dynamics in latent space before generating robot actions. Astribot says Lumo-2 improves over Lumo-1 through predictive latent dynamics, progressive modality pre-alignment and broader… - source: astribot.com
• 2026-06-03 - Funding - Astribot says Series B financing series has exceeded RMB 1B - Astribot announced completion of a Series B financing series, saying it had completed three financings within roughly three months. The company said cumulative Series B financing exceeded RMB 1 billion and valuation surpassed RMB 10 billion. Reported… - source: stcn.com
• 2026-05-27 - Product Launch - Astribot introduces T1 robotic platform - At launch, the China starting price was CNY89,900, presented alongside an approximate US$13,165 equivalent. The design combines cable-driven manipulation with customizable AI computing for service-robot and VLA development. - source: x.com
• 2025-12-09 - Capability - Astribot introduces Lumo-1 model for embodied reasoning - Astribot introduced Lumo-1 as a generalist vision-language-action model designed to connect robot reasoning with robot action. The official research page and paper describe a three-stage training pipeline combining embodied reasoning, cross-embodiment robot… - source: astribot.com
• 2025-12-09 - Research Publication - Astribot publishes Lumo-1 research paper on embodied reasoning and robotic control - Astribot researchers published the Lumo-1 paper describing a generalist vision-language-action model that unifies robot reasoning with robot action. The paper details a three-stage training pipeline spanning embodied reasoning, cross-embodiment robot data… - source: arxiv.org
• 2024-04-26 - Demonstration - Astribot demonstrates S1 prototype performing tabletop tasks - The footage showed a tablecloth pull beneath wine glasses, wine pouring, cucumber peeling, sandwich flipping and calligraphy. The footage also showed movements copying a human demonstrator. Astribot claimed arm movement up to 10 metres per second and payload… - source: newatlas.com