CYAN Robotics

Executive Summary

CYAN Robotics sits closer to the social and developer-facing end of humanoids than to pure factory automation. Its differentiator is a more approachable robot identity paired with open interfaces and locomotion work that tries to make general-purpose humanoids more deployable and easier to build on.

About CYAN Robotics

CYAN Robotics is a Shanghai humanoid startup building general-purpose robots with a more expressive and approachable interaction layer. The company combines open SDK and ROS 2 tooling with humanoid locomotion, emotional gait design, and embodied AI systems intended for both research and real-world applications.

1. 2024

   CYAN Robotics launches in Shanghais humanoid incubator ecosystem

   CYAN Robotics was founded in 2024 and emerged from the Shanghai Humanoid Robot Innovation Incubator. In Roboticos dataset, the company is tracked for open SDK and ROS 2 support alongside a humanoid platform built for research and industrial use.

   ShanghaiHumanoid incubator
2. 2025

   CYAN pushes an open, emotionally expressive humanoid platform

   Across 2025 and beyond, CYAN has pitched its humanoids around emotional gait locomotion, open SDK and API access, and ROS 2 support for research and application development. That positioning makes the company notable not just for robot hardware, but for trying to make the platform easier to program and socially easier to accept.

   ROS 2Open SDKApproachable design
3. April 19, 2025

   Orca I completes the Beijing humanoid half-marathon without falling

   In April 2025, the Shanghai government highlighted CYANs Orca I humanoid after it completed the worlds first humanoid half-marathon without malfunctions or falls and performed a battery swap in two minutes. The event gave CYAN a visible public proof point for endurance, stability, and outdoor reliability.

   Orca IHalf-marathon