Astribot S1
About
About Astribot S1
Astribot S1 is a dual-arm humanoid-style platform for embodied-AI research and manipulation development. Its integrated software and hardware architecture couples onboard AI with seven-axis arms, each rated for a five-kilogram load at horizontal reach. A movable body gives the approximately 170-centimetre robot a human-scale working envelope for handling everyday objects.
The research version provides APIs, development guidance, visual programming and support for major simulation platforms. VR teleoperation records demonstrations on the same robot used to develop and test learned behaviour. Astribot supplies tools spanning data collection, model deployment and experiment support for universities, data centres and teams developing embodied models. Battery operation and plug-in power accommodate mobile experiments and longer stationary sessions, with selected performance parameters configurable for research.
Capabilities
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
Source - Pick and place
Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Pick up and place objects in real-world Lumo-1 research evaluations. - environment: Research evaluation scenes
Source - Fabric smoothing and folding
Research demonstration - 2025-12-09 - Fold towels in task-tuned Lumo-1 research evaluations. - environment: Research evaluation table
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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
Source - 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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Operations
- 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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Observed use
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.
Source - Femto Bolt
Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - MobiAgent’s physical Astribot S1 setup includes an Orbbec Femto Bolt in its head-camera suite.
Source - 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.
Source - 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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Research
- 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.
Source - 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.
Source - 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.
Source - 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.
Source - 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.
Source - 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.
Source - 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.
Source - 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.
Source - 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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Resources
Media library
- S1 tabletop manipulation demonstrations
video · Astribot
Source - S1 cup-stacking demonstration
video · Astribot
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Timeline
- 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.
Source - 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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Context
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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