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Orca
CYAN Robotics
PrivateDeveloping emotionally expressive humanoids with embodied AI and an open robotics platform.
Founded 2024$110M raised
Humanoid Robots
About CYAN Robotics
CYAN Robotics is a Chinese robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots for service, research, and commercial applications. Emerging from the Shanghai Humanoid Robot Innovation Incubator, the company combines embodied AI, multimodal interaction, and advanced locomotion to create humanoids designed to operate naturally in human environments. Its humanoid platforms integrate proprietary motion control, perception, decision-making, and human-robot interaction technologies, with a distinctive focus on emotional gait, allowing robots to adapt their walking style and body language to different social contexts. CYAN Robotics also provides an open development ecosystem with SDKs, APIs, and ROS 2 support, enabling researchers and developers to build custom embodied AI applications on its platforms.
Technical Profile
Platform maturity, autonomy stack, and flagship-system specifications in one view.
Technology Snapshot
A concise view of platform maturity and deployment footprint.
Flagship PlatformOrca
Latest Updates
April 19, 2025Company MilestoneCorporate
Orca I completes the Beijing humanoid half-marathon without fallingIn 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.
CYAN Robotics Team
CYAN Robotics History
- 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 - 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 - 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