Astribot S1

Source-backed capabilities

• Operating environments: Research evaluation scenes, Research evaluation table, ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station, MobiAgent physical S1 mobile-manipulation task station, MIRA physical S1 interaction sessions
• Control modes: Learned Policy, Autonomous
• Activearena xl shirt

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Inspect two T-shirt size labels, select the XL-size shirt and place it in a basket. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Pick and place

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Pick up and place objects in real-world Lumo-1 research evaluations. - environment: Research evaluation scenes

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• Fabric smoothing and folding

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Fold towels in task-tuned Lumo-1 research evaluations. - environment: Research evaluation table

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• Activearena pen bag

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Search a cloth bag for a pen, retrieve it and place it in a basket. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Activearena peach drawers

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Search a two-drawer cabinet for a peach and transfer it to a basket. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Activearena screwdriver clutter

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Search cluttered objects for a screwdriver and transfer it to a basket. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Activearena grape drawers

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Search a three-drawer cabinet for a grape and place it in a basket. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Activearena glue search

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Search a cloth bag or drawer for a glue stick and transfer it to a basket. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Activearena banana drawers

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Search a cabinet containing distractor fruit for a banana and place it in a basket. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Activearena moving team relay

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Track moving red-team players, receive a bottle from player one and hand it to player three. - environment: ActiveArena controlled physical search and relay task station

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• Mobiagent trash garbage

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Pick up garbage, carry it to a trash can and place it inside. - environment: MobiAgent physical S1 mobile-manipulation task station

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• Mobiagent trash can

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Pick up a can, carry it to a trash can and place it inside. - environment: MobiAgent physical S1 mobile-manipulation task station

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• Mobiagent trash bottle

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Pick up a bottle, carry it to a trash can and place it inside. - environment: MobiAgent physical S1 mobile-manipulation task station

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• Mobiagent pour blue

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Pick up a bottle, pour blue particles into a cup and return the bottle to the table. - environment: MobiAgent physical S1 mobile-manipulation task station

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• Mira full duplex

  Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Converse through multiple turns with synchronized speech gestures, stopping an active response when a person interrupts. - environment: MIRA physical S1 interaction sessions

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• Production Setup

  2026-10-13 - China - Astribot S1 entered mass production in June 2025, as described in the founder interview published October 13, 2026.

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Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

• Sharpa Wave

  Digital Simulation - Mounted - Simulated - BiDex-100 uses a simulated Astribot S1 embodiment with Sharpa Wave hands for ten generalisation tasks.

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• Femto Bolt

  Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - MobiAgent’s physical Astribot S1 setup includes an Orbbec Femto Bolt in its head-camera suite.

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• Intel RealSense D401 wrist cameras

  Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - MobiAgent’s physical Astribot S1 uses two wrist-mounted RealSense D401 cameras for close-up views.

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• Orbbec Gemini 335 chest camera

  Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - MobiAgent’s physical Astribot S1 uses a chest-mounted Orbbec Gemini 335 camera. This does not identify the 335L or 335Lg variant.

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• BiDex-100: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation Across 100+ Simulation Tasks

  2026-10-18 - Research Publication - BiDex-100 is a simulation benchmark with 106 bimanual dexterous tasks across five capability axes. It supplies8,080 validated teleoperated demonstrations across dual-Franka and Astribot S1 simulation embodiments.

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• MobiAgent: Dual-Loop Recursive Policy Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation

  2026-10-02 - Research Publication - MobiAgent combines dynamic skill planning and visual reflection with offline recycling of deployment trajectories. It evaluates four physical Astribot S1 tasks, separate simulated mobile-manipulation benchmarks, and an additional Unitree R1D household experiment.

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• ActiveArena: Benchmarking and Understanding Active Perception in Robotic Manipulation

  2026-09-21 - Research Publication - ActiveArena studies active perception and memory with 35 simulated manipulation tasks and eight physical tasks on Astribot S1. It releases simulator and evaluation source plus LeRobot-format simulated demonstrations, separating benchmark results from the smaller real-robot study.

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• MIRA: Real-Time Full-Duplex Human-Robot Interaction for Embodied Companions

  2026-09-21 - Research Publication - MIRA coordinates streaming dialogue, discrete social behaviors and generated co-speech motion on a physical Astribot S1. It combines CORTEX turn management with ROSCO motion generation and a robot-side execution bridge that limits and interrupts committed joint motion.

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• SmoothRL: Online Reinforcement Learning with Asynchronous Robot Execution

  2026-08-30 - Research Publication - SmoothRL aligns policy updates with the action frames that physically executed, despite inference delay and discarded action chunks.

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• RynnBrain 1.1: Towards More Capable and Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model

  2026-07-20 - Research Publication - The authors present RynnBrain 1.1, a family of embodied foundation models spanning 2B, 9B, and 122B-A10B scales.

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• A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots

  2026-07-13 - Research Publication - The authors introduce PHILIA, a multi-robot agent built around a robot gateway abstraction.

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• Mind to Hand: Purposeful Robotic Control via Embodied Reasoning

  2025-12-09 - Research Publication - Mind to Hand proposes embodied reasoning for purposeful robotic control, connecting high-level task intent with manipulation actions in Astribot S1 and related humanoid platform context.

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• FiveAges robot_usds simulation asset library

  Research Publication - A shared library of robot USD assets for ROS 2 control and Isaac Sim development, with configurable robot and end-effector models.

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Media library

• S1 tabletop manipulation demonstrations

  video · Astribot

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• S1 cup-stacking demonstration

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• Astribot publishes SmoothRL online-learning results on S1

  2026-08-30 - Research Publication - 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 supports VR takeover and residual joystick correction while the robot operates.

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• Astribot demonstrates S1 prototype performing tabletop tasks

  2024-04-26 - Demonstration - 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 up to 10 kilograms per arm.

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Market context

Astribot S1 is a wheeled bimanual mobile manipulation platform focused on household and service-style embodied AI tasks.

• Target environment: Research labs, development workshops and controlled service environments.
• Workflow context: Bimanual manipulation, object handling and VLA model training for real-world embodied AI tasks.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, AI labs and embodied AI teams.
• Deployment model: Research platform available through Astribot's product channels.
• Commercial maturity: Prototype-stage research platform with a strong public demonstration track record.
• Adoption constraints: Still pre-commercial for broad workplace deployment. The main role is as a research and model-training platform.
• Market position: One of the more visible wheeled bimanual platforms in the embodied AI research space, alongside AgiBot G2 in the mobile manipulation category.
• Adjacent products: AgiBot G2, DexLeap Mobile Manipulator

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• Vega 1 Pro

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• Quanta X1

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• Reachy 2

  Pollen Robotics - Mobile Manipulator

• Dual-Arm Lift

  RealMan Intelligent Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. - Semi Humanoid

• G2

  AgiBot - Semi Humanoid