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PrimeBOT

ACTIVE
Robotics company
启元机器人Qiyuan Robotics启元上纬启元

PrimeBOT (Qiyuan Robotics, 启元机器人) is the consumer embodied-intelligence robot brand of Swancor Advanced Materials, building personal humanoid home robots such as the Q1 and T1.

Founded2025China
HQShanghaiChina
01 · About

PrimeBOT

Founded 2025 · Shanghai, China

PrimeBOT (Chinese 启元机器人, Qiyuan Robotics) is a consumer embodied-AI robot brand launched in November 2025 by the listed company Swancor Advanced Materials (上纬新材, STAR Market ticker 688585) as part of its "new materials + embodied intelligence" strategy. The brand's mission is "to create a better life through embodied intelligence," aiming to make personal home robots mainstream. In December 2025 it unveiled its first full-body, force-controlled small-size humanoid, the Q1, followed in July 2026 by the T1, marketed as the world's first transformable personal robot. Pre-sales and sales opened in September 2026. Its R&D arm is the Qiyuan Research Institute (启元研究院), which develops a proprietary VLA model for household tasks capable of complex task decomposition, spatial understanding and zero-shot generalization. It is headquartered in the Pudong district of Shanghai.

  • Peng Zhihui

    Chairman of the Board

  • Tian Hua

    Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

  • Dong Hao

    Chief Scientist, President of the Embodied Research Center

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 3 technologies · 1 industries
What they do2Areas
  • Humanoid robots
  • Embodied AI
How they do it3Technologies
  • Embodied AI
  • Multimodal AI
  • Robotics
Who for1Industries
  • Robotics
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Shanghai · 2 regions
ChinaAsia
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2025
2025founded
earlydevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
activestatus
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 1 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stageearly
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeRobotics company

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