Astribot S1 vs EngineAI SE01

Astribot S1 is a China-built wheeled humanoid upper-body robot with official specs of 170 cm, 80 kg, 5 kg per-arm payload, end-effector speed >=10 m/s, acceleration about 100 m/s^2, repeatability +/-0.1 mm, and 4-6 hours runtime. It uses cable-driven arms and is sold B2B by quote, with no public price. BigGo Finance reports a 15 billion yuan valuation, 10,000-unit S and T production capacity, and customers including Golden Horse, ThunderSoft, JD.com, and Robot MART stores across six Chinese cities. Secondary reviews describe cooking, food prep, cleaning, calligraphy, and other demos, and report Astribot Suite task success rates of 80-100 percent. Autonomy is claimed but not independently audited, S1 has no bipedal walking speed, and no S1-specific deployment output metrics are published

EngineAI SE01 is a full-size biped humanoid (170 cm, 55 kg, 32 DoF) introduced in October 2024 as the company's first humanoid with a natural, human-like walking gait. The gait is achieved through end-to-end neural networks, reinforcement learning, and imitation learning using self-developed harmonic joint modules. Specs include 330 Nm joint torque, dual NVIDIA/Intel processors, and stereo cameras (plus LiDAR/depth/IR per unofficial source). Evidence consists of official and third-party videos with titles indicating walking demos, including a long-distance campus test, but no transcripts or independent analysis. There is no evidence of autonomous task execution, manipulation beyond a spec claim of dexterous hands, customer deployment, or official pricing