{"id":20741,"date":"2026-05-21T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-unveils-first-humanoid-robot-for-household-chores-ready-as-early-as-2027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:33:24","slug":"china-unveils-first-humanoid-robot-for-household-chores-ready-as-early-as-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-unveils-first-humanoid-robot-for-household-chores-ready-as-early-as-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"China unveils first humanoid robot for household chores, ready as early as 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/21\/70c72baa-3c0e-4188-886f-c541386c8fb4_cafb7ae9.jpg?itok=DCGqsGVv&amp;v=1779355335\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"9.8274111675127\">China&rsquo;s robotics pioneers <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">are rapidly expanding<\/span> beyond the usual factory surroundings and into more challenging terrains: the unstructured, dynamic and complex world of domestic household chores.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.569506726457\">GigaAI unveiled the country&rsquo;s first general-purpose household <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">humanoid<\/span> robot model on Wednesday, the SeeLight S1, in collaboration with Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre and Hubei Humanoid Robotics Industry Alliance.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The robot will be given to families to test free of charge in Wuhan, the capital of China&rsquo;s central Hubei province, as early as the first half of 2027, said Zhu Zheng, GigaAI&rsquo;s CEO, according to an article published on Thursday in local newspaper Changjiang Daily.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a demonstration video published on the company&rsquo;s WeChat account, the two-armed, wheeled robot was seen chopping vegetables, frying eggs, loading a washing machine, hanging laundry, making a bed and opening curtains.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"13.952205882353\">The developer aimed to lower the hardware price to below 100,000 yuan (US$14,700) by June 2027, halving its current cost, Zhu said. He said he expected household robots to make significant breakthroughs in both <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">commercialisation<\/span> and embodied <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">AI<\/span> model capabilities by 2028.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Unlike humanoid robots that work on factory production lines and rely on hard-coded algorithms and pre-configured routines &ndash; the most common deployment of robots at present &ndash; the S1 is designed to autonomously understand tasks and plan its execution trajectory with the help of embodied artificial intelligence models.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A fleet of 100 S1s will be trialed at housing reserved for employees in hi-tech industries starting later this month, before the pilot in Wuhan households next year &ndash; which will focus on families that have elderly members, children or pets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>China unveils first humanoid robot for household chores, ready as early as 2027<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&rsquo;s robotics pioneers are rapidly expanding beyond the usual factory surroundings and into more challenging terrains: the unstructured, dynamic and complex world of domestic household chores. GigaAI unveiled the country&rsquo;s first general-purpose household humanoid robot model on Wednesday, the SeeLight S1, in collaboration with Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre and Hubei Humanoid Robotics Industry Alliance&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-unveils-first-humanoid-robot-for-household-chores-ready-as-early-as-2027\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;China unveils first humanoid robot for household chores, ready as early as 2027&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}