Agibot-controlled Swancor opens orders for Qiyuan Q1 and T1 robots
Personal robots crossed from demo booths into shopping carts this weekend. Swancor New Materials — the listed company humanoid-maker Agibot took control of last year — has thrown open public pre-orders for its Qiyuan Q1 and T1 consumer robots, with the first units slated to ship next month.
Shanghai-listed Swancor New Materials opened public pre-orders for its Qiyuan Q1 and T1 personal robots on Sunday, moving its consumer lineup out of trade-show showcases and into paid order books. Orders went live across the company's official mini-program plus its Tmall, Douyin and Bilibili storefronts, after smaller trial runs at the World AI Conference and ChinaJoy. A 1,000 yuan deposit knocks 2,000 yuan off the final price, and first shipments are scheduled for September.
Why it matters: Swancor is the closest thing public markets have to a pure play on Agibot's consumer ambitions — the robotics company completed its takeover of the former materials firm in November, installed co-founder Peng Zhihui as chairman, and relaunched it around the Qiyuan robot brand. The first-half filings show why the pre-order moment counts: 210 million yuan in advance robot payments already collected, 160 million yuan plowed into R&D on the consumer line, experience stores in seven cities, and a ten-thousand-unit initial production run agreed with Lens Technology's robotics subsidiary. Those figures are modest next to the sector's paper valuations — Unitree went public at $9 billion just days ago — but they represent deposits on real shipments rather than applause at demos, and that is precisely what has been missing from the consumer-robot story. We covered that landmark listing here — Unitree prices $9B humanoid IPO, first in mainland China.
The two robots split the household between them. The Q1 is an 88 cm, roughly 15 kg humanoid billed as the first small-format whole-body force-controlled machine of its kind, pitched at developers, gadget collectors and families wanting a companion. The T1 stands about 100 cm, weighs around 16 kg, and switches by itself between a wheel-legged upright form and a four-legged stance — built for walks outdoors, camera work and tagging along at home. Pre-order buyers get a half-year warranty extension and first-run collector perks, signed founder's letter included.
The C-end window is now officially open. Beijing's commerce ministry declared AI robots a new consumption category in June, the World Robot Conference floor filled with consumer-priced machines this summer, and Dongwu Securities analysts argue the products are evolving from standardized hardware into customizable personal terminals. When a Shanghai materials company can credibly rewrite itself as a home-robot maker — with experience shops in seven major cities — the industry's question has flipped from "can they build it" to "will families buy it." September's answer will start arriving soon.
What to watch: whether those September first deliveries actually land on time — and what early owners report once the robots meet real living rooms instead of showroom floors.
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