cooking
Food preparation demos: flipping, pouring, plating
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Teleoperation and choreography; split undisclosed
Research record R-009Commercially available
Astribot S1
By Astribot (Stardust Intelligence) · China · announced April 2024
The wheeled assistant whose impossibly fast arms went viral flipping pancakes, now sold to enterprises worldwide.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
The S1 from Astribot (Shenzhen's Stardust Intelligence) announced itself in April 2024 with a demo reel of arm speed nobody else could match: opening bottles, flipping food, pulling tablecloths from under stacked glasses and writing calligraphy, with claimed arm speeds around 10 meters per second and roughly 10 kilograms of payload per arm. The torso rides a wheeled base.
Commercial availability began in China in late 2025 with international rollout through 2026; aggregator pricing puts early deployments between roughly $96,000 and $150,000, with no official list price. In May 2026 Astribot added the T1, a compact sibling from about $13,000, aimed at the developer market.
The S1's demos are choreographed showcases, and Astribot has published little about sustained autonomous work; its manipulation hardware, though, is widely regarded as among the fastest built.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Manufacturer claim
Commercial deployments since late 2025 per trade coverage; volumes unpublished
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
3 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Controlled demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
cleaning
Household tidying demonstrations
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
entertainment
Calligraphy, dart throwing, showpiece dexterity
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
Hardware record.
- Height
- 170 cm
- Weight
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Locomotion
- Wheeled base
- Payload
- About 10 kg per arm (claimed)
- Runtime
- Hours-scale
- Charging
- Dock
- Top speed
- Arms about 10 m/s (claimed); base at indoor speeds
- Degrees of freedom
- Not fully published
- Hands
- Grippers and dexterous options
- Face / expression
- Screen head
- Sensors
- RGB-D cameras
Software record.
- AI platform
- Astribot imitation-learning stack
- Voice
- Demonstration-level interaction
- Languages
- Chinese, English demos
- Visual recognition
- Object recognition for manipulation
- Memory
- Task models
- Processing
- Onboard plus cloud
- Autonomous abilities
- Choreographed task demos; sustained autonomy unpublished
- Teleoperation
- Used for training and demos
- Software updates
- OTA
- Developer access
- SDK for enterprise and research buyers
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Enterprise-controlled
- Remote operation possible
- Yes
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not disclosed
- Camera / microphone controls
- Operator controlled
- Data deletion
- Contract governed
- Account required
- Enterprise
- Emergency stop
- E-stop
- Children and pets
- High-speed arms demand caution; industrial-style safety
- Security updates
- Enterprise support
Open questions
Disputed or unverified.
- Arm speed, payload and pricing rest on company statements and aggregator reporting
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Public demonstration
Viral S1 demo reel
- Commercially available
Commercial availability begins in China
- Commercially available
Compact T1 sibling launches from about $13,000
Source register
1 linked source.
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