Astribot Unveils T1 Humanoid for North America at IROS 2026

Summary

Astribot launched its T1 humanoid at IROS 2026, targeting developers with a price starting around $18k. The robot features 23 DOF, 5kg payload per arm, teleoperation capabilities, and an open SDK. It runs Astribot's Lumo AI models and demonstrated autonomous backpack-packing with deformable objects and occlusion.

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Original source quotation: “Astribot brought its T1 humanoid to its North America debut at IROS 2026: a humanoid developers can actually put to work, starting around $18k.”
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Original source quotation: “~1.55m, 23 DOF, 5kg payload per arm, teleoperable out of the box for data collection and training, with an open SDK.”
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Original source quotation: “The robot comes with the AI stack. Astribot builds its own models (the Lumo family) that run on the robots.”
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Original source quotation: “They’ve showed S1 autonomously performing a backpack-packing demo: deformable objects, occlusion, multi-step, no teleoperation.”
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Astribot brought its T1 humanoid to its North America debut at IROS 2026: a humanoid developers can actually put to work, starting around $18k.

~1.55m, 23 DOF, 5kg payload per arm, teleoperable out of the box for data collection and training, with an open SDK.

The robot comes with the AI stack. Astribot builds its own models (the Lumo family) that run on the robots.

They’ve showed S1 autonomously performing a backpack-packing demo: deformable objects, occlusion, multi-step, no teleoperation. https://x.com/XRoboHub/status/2105580844333388276/video/1