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About NAVIAI i3

NAVIAI i3 combines navigation and positioning with whole-body coordination for movement and manipulation. Its control approach emphasises balance under external disturbance, using coordinated joint motion to respond when the robot is pushed or encounters difficult terrain. The lower-body joints provide the support needed for its full-size frame.

The platform is specified for a maximum joint torque of 360 newton-metres and movement up to nine kilometres per hour. Its development focuses on maintaining stability while travelling and carrying out more precise actions, linking mobility with object interaction through a common whole-body control system.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

Capability areas: Whole-body control
Workflows: Bipedal locomotion, navigation, manipulation, tool-use teaching and precision embodied task execution.
Operating environments: Research labs, industrial demonstrations, training environments and structured task settings.
Target markets: Industrial partners, researchers and developers evaluating Zhejiang Humanoid's humanoid platform family.
Deployment model: Active humanoid product with public specifications and product-page positioning.
Inspection
Customer-site use - 2025-08-15 - A customized NAVIAI humanoid operated at Beko Turkish production base on touchscreen, door-opening and inspection workflows. - environment: factory inspection and manipulation
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Operations

Order / Commitment
2,000 NAVIAI robots ordered - 2026-05-21 - Jack Technology - apparel manufacturing - Zhejiang Humanoid and Jack Technology signed for 2,000 customized NAVIAI humanoid robots for apparel manufacturing. The disclosure is a booked customer-order signal, not confirmed delivered or installed units.
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Deployments

Customer Site
NAVIAI humanoid operating at Beko production base - 2025-08-15 - Beko - factory inspection and manipulation - A customized NAVIAI humanoid operated at Beko Turkish production base on touchscreen, door-opening and inspection workflows.
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Timeline

Zhejiang Humanoid introduces NAVIAI-I3 for inspection
2025-11-23 - Product Launch - The 1.8-meter robot was described with walking and running capability at speeds up to nine kilometers per hour. Patrol and inspection were the target applications, while volume production remained work in progress at the Ningbo developer.
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Context

Market context

Full-size bipedal humanoid (165 cm, 60 kg, 41 DoF) focused on high-precision embodied tasks, locomotion, navigation and manipulation—including tool use via teaching rather than programming.

Target environment: Research labs, industrial demonstrations, training environments and structured task settings.
Workflow context: Bipedal locomotion, navigation, manipulation, tool-use teaching and precision embodied task execution.
Customer context: Industrial partners, researchers and developers evaluating Zhejiang Humanoid's humanoid platform family.
Deployment model: Active humanoid product with public specifications and product-page positioning.
Commercial maturity: Active platform with public product detail and reported commercial signals around the company.
Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation reliability, walking stability, task teaching, safety, support and production scale.
Market position: Precision-task Chinese humanoid lane emphasizing taught tool use and embodied tasks beyond walking demos.
Adjacent products: Unitree G1, Robot Era L7, Kuavo, ENGINEAI SE01

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