CloudMinds (DataA Robotics) · social humanoid
Cloud Ginger
XR-1
A cloud-connected service humanoid with a head, two arms and a wheeled base, first shown as the XR-1 over 5G in 2019. Its compliant actuators and remote 'cloud brain' let it grasp objects, talk and guide visitors; one 2019 report wrongly or loosely called it two-legged.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 158 cmTaller than 38%
- Weight
- 62 kgHeavier than 51%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Cloud Ginger (XR-1) is on the market today.
Real-world use
Marketed for reception, tour guiding, elder care, cleaning and teaching; China Daily described it in service in Shanghai in 2023.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
CloudMinds (DataA Robotics)Company · founded 2015 · Shanghai, China (earlier US office in Santa Clara, California)SoftBank-backed; filed for a US$500 million IPO in June 2019 (The Robot Report)
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Cloud Ginger (XR-1) is taller than 38% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Cloud Ginger (XR-1) is heavier than 51% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, payload, joints, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Cloud Ginger (XR-1) and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Cloud Ginger (XR-1) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- Actuators & motors
- CloudMinds' own Smart Compliant Actuators (SCA) as smart joints; XR-1 had more than 30 proprietary smart joints, and Cloud Ginger is described with more than 40 flexible actuators.
- Hands
- Dexterous fingered hands with vision-guided grasping learned from human operator demonstrations.
- Compute
- A central control unit manages joints and sensors and a robot controller links the robot to the cloud; heavy AI runs off-board in the HARIX 'cloud brain'.
- Materials & build
- 158 cm tall, 62 kg (Cloud Ginger, per China Daily).
- AI & software
- HARIX cloud robot operating system (commercial since 2017) connected over a private 'nerve network'; later HARIX AGI platform and RobotGPT multimodal model; human operators can take over remotely.
- Other details
- XR-1 was demonstrated over commercial 5G (Sprint) at MWC Los Angeles in October 2019. Roles listed include reception, tour guiding, elderly care, cleaning, education and research.
Lineage
Every CloudMinds (DataA Robotics) humanoid in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Sold and operated as a cloud service; units not disclosed
- Where it is sold or used
- China (CloudMinds / DataA Robotics, Beijing and Shanghai)
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- CloudMinds targets elderly care with humanoids
China Daily described the 158 cm Cloud Ginger and the company's plan for a two-legged stair-helping humanoid by 2025.
China Daily - XR-1 runs over Sprint 5G at MWC Los Angeles
Electronics World reported the cloud-AI humanoid with SCA joints and vision-based grasping at Sprint's booth.
Electronics World
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Cloud Ginger (XR-1)CloudMinds (DataA Robotics) |  Promobot V4PromobotSame jobs: retail, social · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  ARIPAL RoboticsSame job: social · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size |  DAL-eHyundai Motor GroupSame jobs: retail, social · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2019 | 2018-01 | 2020-02 | 2021-01-26 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Pilot use |
| Height | 158 cm | — | 165 cm | — |
| Weight | 62 kg | — | — | 80 kg |
| Joints | — | — | 14 | — |
| Speed | — | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | 12 h | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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