A versatile humanoid robot designed for household chores has been unveiled in China
The Chinese company GigaAI has unveiled its new SeeLight S1 domestic humanoid robot. The developers say the robot is designed to perform a variety of household tasks and is China’s first all-purpose model of its kind for domestic use.
This was reported by the South China Morning Post.
One hundred S1 units will be tested in a residential complex reserved for employees of high-tech industries, starting at the end of this month.
According to GigaAI CEO Zhu Zheng, as early as the first half of 2027, the robots will be provided for free testing to families in Wuhan, the capital of the central Chinese province of Hubei.
A demonstration video released this week showed a two-armed robot on wheels slicing vegetables, frying eggs, loading a washing machine, hanging laundry, making a bed, and opening curtains.
The developer aims to reduce the price of the SeeLight S1 to below 100,000 yuan ($14,700) by June 2027, which would halve its current cost.
Zheng expects such household robots to make a significant breakthrough in both commercialization and the implementation of AI-based capabilities by 2028.
Unlike humanoid robots that operate on factory production lines and rely on rigidly programmed algorithms and pre-configured procedures, the S1 is designed to autonomously understand tasks and plan the trajectory for their execution using embedded AI-based models.
Zhen noted that for safety reasons, the robot was equipped with a “compatible control mechanism” that immediately halts its operation when it encounters pets or children.
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