Astribot brings T1 humanoid robot to North America

Astribot is showing its T1 humanoid robot at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh as the company pushes a Physical AI stack built around AI models, an embodied operating system and a cable-driven robot body. U.S. orders are open now, with pricing starting at $18,000 and immediate delivery available.

Why it matters: - Astribot is trying to sell Physical AI as a full system, not just a robot with software layered on top. - The T1 platform is positioned for researchers, developers and applications that need real-world robot interaction. - U.S. pricing starts at $18,000, which puts the platform within reach of more buyers than many humanoid systems. - The company says U.S. customers can order T1 now with immediate delivery.

What happened: - Astribot brought its T1 humanoid robot to North America for the first time at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - The event runs Sept. 27-Oct. 1 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. - Astribot used the show to present its Physical AI stack, including Lumo models, an embodied operating system and the cable-driven T1 body. - Learn more at the company's announcement.

The details: - Astribot is a Shenzhen-rooted Physical AI company. - The company’s “Design for AI” approach treats intelligence, the operating system and the physical body as one integrated system. - The Lumo model family is built to connect reasoning and action in physical environments. - Lumo-1 introduced Astribot’s Reasoning-Action Foundation Model approach. - Lumo-2 extends the work into latent world-action modeling for more complex physical tasks. - T1 has demonstrated autonomous tidying of miscellaneous items into a backpack using the Lumo-2 base model. - Astribot says additional task capabilities depend on further training. - The embodied operating system is designed to connect AI capabilities with people, robots and physical environments. - Developers get SDK and API access for joint control, Cartesian motion, whole-body coordination and sensor data. - Astribot OS includes meta-packages and skill libraries for agentic behaviors and foundational functions. - The natural-language interface is designed to generate deployable robot applications from a single-line requirement. - At the second Astribot OS Hackathon, which ended Sept. 21 in Beijing, 15 teams built and demonstrated more than 10 functional applications on T1 in 36 hours, according to the company. - T1 uses a cable-driven architecture designed for dexterous manipulation, compliant interaction and high-speed movement. - The robot stands about 1.55 meters tall and weighs about 66 kilograms. - T1 has 23 degrees of freedom, excluding end effectors. - Each arm supports up to 5 kilograms of payload. - T1 supports automatic charging and quick battery replacement. - The modular design allows different end effectors, computing modules and sensors to be added for different tasks.

Between the lines: - Astribot is making a bet that robotics progress will come from tighter coupling between model design, robot mechanics and software tools. - The company’s development loop depends on collecting multimodal data from robot operation and teleoperation, then retraining models and pushing updated skills back out. - T1 does not learn autonomously in real time during deployment. - Customers can collect data for dedicated model training or during autonomous task execution. - The physical-body strategy also matters for performance, since Astribot wants the robot to expose richer interaction information to the intelligence stack.

What's next: - Astribot plans to continue training Lumo-2 to expand T1’s household-task capabilities. - Updated skills are delivered through over-the-air updates or on-site installation and calibration. - The company is aiming to grow T1 as a developer-accessible platform for physical AI research and real-world applications. - U.S. buyers can place orders now for immediate delivery.**