Swancor's Qiyuan launches Q1 and T1 consumer humanoid robots from about $2,800
On September 20, Qiyuan Robotics — the consumer embodied-AI brand of materials company Swancor Advanced Materials — put two personal humanoid robots on sale: Qiyuan Q1 (19,999 yuan, or 26,999 yuan for the Explorer edition) and Qiyuan T1 (19,999 yuan, 29,999 yuan for T1 Pro), with shipments starting October 1 in order sequence. The company calls Q1 the "world's first small-size full-body force-controlled humanoid," standing about 88 cm tall, weighing roughly 15 kg and folding into a bag, with an Explorer version opening a full SDK and hardware interfaces; T1 is billed as the "world's first transformable personal robot," about 100 cm tall and 16 kg, switching between wheeled-humanoid and quadruped forms, with T1 Pro carrying an NVIDIA Orin Nano chip. Swancor reported first-half 2026 revenue of 803 million yuan, a net loss of 167 million yuan and 180 million yuan of R&D spending (up 738.66% year on year, 164 million of it for robotics), and said pre-orders for Q1 and T1 have brought in 210 million yuan in prepayments, competing with Unitree R1 (from 29,900 yuan) and Booster Robotics' BoosterK1 ($5,999).
Consumer humanoid pricing has been pushed into the ~20,000-yuan range, so delivery speed, batch quality control and ecosystem operations will decide whether this embodied-AI commercialization push actually pays off.