After 1,000 YuanDian Xiaoqiao robots sold out, it became the 'Han Li edition': bringing embodied AI into the home

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More than 600 YuanDian Xiaoqiao robots sold on the first day after launch on September 2; the initial run of 1,000 sold out in under a week, and it won Best in the Next Generation and Emerging Tech category at IFA 2026. The 88-cm-tall, roughly 13-kg humanoid has joint modules rated up to 50 N·m and an introductory price of RMB 8,888. YuanDian calls it the world's first AI-native embodied robot and has also launched the fully open-source OpenBridge ecosystem. The company previously released home-focused products including M1, W1, and Jupiter, with cumulative orders exceeding 30,000 in the first half of this year.

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