Advancing embodied AI through high-speed mobile manipulation and whole-body imitation learning.
Astribot is a robotics company based in Shenzhen, China, founded in 2022 and backed by Stardust Intelligence. Founded by former Tencent Robotics and Baidu engineer Lai Jie, the company develops embodied AI systems centered on high-speed, high-precision mobile manipulation for homes, laboratories, and commercial environments. Its goal is to create robots capable of learning complex physical tasks through observation rather than manual programming. Its flagship platform, S1, combines an omnidirectional mobile base with dual robotic arms and whole-body imitation learning to autonomously perform household chores, laboratory workflows, and precision manipulation tasks. Astribot has gained attention for demonstrating exceptionally fast robotic arm movements while advancing general-purpose embodied AI through learning-based control.
Platform maturity, autonomy stack, and flagship-system specifications in one view.
A concise view of platform maturity and deployment footprint.
Published operating specifications for the lead system.
Funding included Pre-A from Matrix Partners and Series A in April 2025 from Ant Group (Alibaba), JinQiu Fund, and Matrix Partners. Commercial availability began late 2025 at $96,000-$150,000.
Astribot was founded in 2022 in Shenzhen by Lai Jie, formerly of Tencent's Robotics X Lab and Baidu. The team includes members from Huawei, Google, and UBTech.
The core innovation is whole-body imitation learning, the S1 acquires new tasks by watching human demonstrations. Development took approximately one year.
The S1 burst onto the scene in early 2024 with a viral video showing threading needles, pouring liquids, ironing clothes, and flipping wok items, all autonomous, not teleoperated. Arms achieve 10+ m/s speed with ±0.1mm repeatability.
Funding included Pre-A from Matrix Partners and Series A in April 2025 from Ant Group (Alibaba), JinQiu Fund, and Matrix Partners. Commercial availability began late 2025 at $96,000-$150,000.
