NEW ROBOT: First transformer humanoid ! HFUN-TECH released a robot that can autonomously reconfigure between a wheel-foot humanoid and a four-legged quadruped, switching modes on its own based on terrain via a unified control framework. You can even carry it as a suitcase, and ride it to move around!... It carries a flip camera, a 45-degree tilted interaction screen and a multi-microphone array, and is pitched for home companionship, content creation and outdoor use. It debuted at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC, July 17-20, Shanghai). I also found an alomst identical robot marketed as the "PrimeBOT Qiyuan T1" from a Shanghai startup PrimeBOT, so I cannot really make sense of it 🤔show more

I think we'll see a lot more of that in the coming years... one OEM making a base robot model and then different companies selling variants with their own branding and software.

Yes for sure! I would love to have a car that can turn into a transformer battle bot

Hahah. Almost guaranteed one of the Chinese companies will do that soon the Transformers movies were huge in China 🤣

Let's ping XPeng or BYD 👀

If robot engineers only took out the play-mode and added some serious problem solving for real life..... This is stonishingly close to a sense-making product thst could sell three million units globally. But I guess the play kids will blow their chance.☹

have you even been following the news lately?

Maybe not the first one.🤔There is a robot called Transformer 1 in China. You can look it up.

I thing this is the same pretty much

Also between a wheel-foot humanoid and a four-legged quadruped.

중국을 무시할수 없게됐다 저기는 이제 개념만 챙기면된다

For sure, China is ahead in Robotics

This is incredible!

It sure is!

Mode-switching control is the hard part, not the chassis. Both probably source the same platform from a Chinese OEM.

Nice gpt

Wow

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A transformer-style humanoid is an interesting direction for adaptable robotics.Switching between bipedal and quadruped modes could give one platform far more flexibility across different terrains and use cases. 🤖

thanks gpt

今度こそ「二足歩行要らない、車輪で十分」とか言い張る、日本の愛国者気取りが沈黙する新製品だ。グッジョブ！(´∀｀)b

Yessss 🦾

lol

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the 'switching modes on its own based on terrain' is the part i'd want to see stressed-tested. genuinely asking, does it switch preemptively from perception or reactively after it's already on new terrain?

Good question! I guess this requires a real life test to answer

two brands same robot is just OEM white-labeling, extremely common with Chinese robotics. the rideable humanoid for home companionship part is unhinged though

yep, hard to keep up