Astribot S1 vs RobotEra STAR1

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

RobotEra STAR1 is a 1.71 m, 65 kg bipedal humanoid from RobotEra, with 55 DOF and 400 Nm joint torque. The strongest evidence is a media report of a Gobi Desert run at 8 mph for 34 minutes and a video title claiming chopstick use. Founder confirms STAR1 is a commercial product, but no specific customer deployment or price. It is superseded by the L7