Prototype
Orca
CYAN Robotics
PrivateDeveloping emotionally expressive humanoids with embodied AI and an open robotics platform.
Founded 2024$110M raised
Developing emotionally expressive humanoids with embodied AI and an open robotics platform.
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.
Platform maturity, autonomy stack, and flagship-system specifications in one view.
A concise view of platform maturity and deployment footprint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
