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About H1

H1 is Striding AI's bipedal humanoid for customer interaction and inspection in open commercial and service spaces. Introduced alongside the C1 wheeled robot and M1 management platform, it combines multilingual interaction, animated facial expressions and gestures with an open development interface. The broader retail system is entering partner validation, with commercial service planned for 2027.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

Operating environments: Retail customer-facing spaces
Social interaction
Claimed - 2026-10-08 - Interact with customers in more than 20 languages using facial expressions and gestures. - environment: Retail customer-facing spaces
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Timeline

Striding AI’s CP Robotics unveils H1 and C1 retail robots with M1 fleet platform
2026-10-08 - Product Launch - Early partners will begin co-development and validation in real stores, with formal commercial service planned for 2027 through direct purchase or subscriptions. Core navigation, grasping and task execution can run locally; remote monitoring and human intervention use network connectivity. C1 is designed to move through narrow convenience-store aisles, while M1 coordinates tasks and monitors robot status across the fleet.
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Context

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