PrimeBot, a consumer brand of Swancor Advanced Materials, started delivering its first personal robot models, Q1 and T1, on October 1st, the first day of China's national holiday. The robot handover began simultaneously at authorized flagship stores in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou; other brand stores will follow, according to reports from the handover events.
In Shanghai, Peng Zhihui, co-founder of AgiBot, who leads Swancor and serves as PrimeBot's product experience specialist, presented delivery certificates to the first buyers at the brand store on Huaihai Middle Road. He stated that they are providing not just a robot, but the beginning of real penetration into users' lives, adding that the company will continue to study user feedback. Currently, however, the robots cannot be taken home immediately: customers place orders in the store, and the devices are shipped sequentially.
Both robot models were publicly unveiled on September 20th. Models Q1 and T1 are priced from 19,999 yuan (approximately $2,800 USD), while the developer-oriented Q1 Explorer version costs 26,999 yuan, and the T1 Pro is priced at 29,999 yuan. Authorized sales points cover seven cities, including Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Xi'an, and buyers receive a one-year warranty.
The Q1 model is an 88-centimeter tall humanoid with 22 degrees of freedom, built on self-developed quasi-direct drive joints approximately the size of an egg. Thanks to the PrimeFLOW platform, owners can convert a text description or reference image into print files, with joint adjustment performed automatically, allowing the robot to be repainted on a 3D printer. The Explorer version provides access to SDK, HDK, and hardware extension interfaces, boasting over 100 atomic capabilities, ranging from joint torque control to AI interaction. However, the Q1 currently lacks dexterous hands, which, according to the Chinese tech publication Leiphone, is in the development stage.
The T1, reaching about a meter in height, can independently switch between a wheeled humanoid form and a quadrupedal form. The company claims that in wheel-driven indoor mode, the noise level is less than 43 decibels, and in quadrupedal mode, it can navigate stairs, slopes at a 30-degree angle, and obstacles up to 15 centimeters high. Its arm interface uses Insta360 cameras for tracking footage, and if the battery charge drops below 5%, it switches to quadrupedal mode and lies down to prevent falling. The T1 Pro is equipped with an Nvidia Orin Nano chip, 360-degree obstacle avoidance in both modes, voice calling, and following and carrying functions.
Swancor CEO Tian Hua reported that the production line, configured like an automotive assembly line, produces one robot every 2.5 minutes. PrimeBot is also creating the PrimeStore skills marketplace and the PrimeHub developer platform, which the company states has over 1000 developers. Leiphone noted that task-level intelligence remains the main hurdle for daily domestic use, and features such as fall detection are still under development.