Elite Robots (艾利特智能机器人股份有限公司) · industrial humanoid
Centaur-G1
A wheeled humanoid from cobot maker Elite Robots, with an omnidirectional base, a head-mounted depth camera and two 7-joint arms rated 5 kg each (10 kg together), aimed at precision tasks such as fibre insertion and optical-module assembly. Shown at WAIC 2026.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 10 kgCarries more than 41%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A pilot use humanoid from Elite Robots.
Real-world use
First deployments target optical-module production and AI-infrastructure work (2026).
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Elite Robots (艾利特智能机器人股份有限公司)Company · founded 2016 · Suzhou, Jiangsu, China (registration in Jiangsu; HQ not stated on site)RMB 600 million D+ round (March 2026); listed in the 2026 Hurun Global Unicorn ranking
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Centaur-G1 carries more than 41% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Centaur-G1 and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Centaur-G1 gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; 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
- Elite's own integrated joint modules (details not published); omnidirectional wheeled chassis.
- Hands
- Two redundant 7-DoF arms, 5 kg each (10 kg together), repeatability ±0.1 mm; six-axis force/torque sensors at the end effectors; end-effector type not specified.
- Sensors & vision
- Head RGB-D camera, binocular macro cameras on the wrists, six-axis force/torque sensors at the wrists, lidar for localisation and navigation; maker claims recognition of known objects within 0.3 s and unknown objects within 1 s.
- AI & software
- Elite's self-developed 'Primo' (元启) industrial embodied-AI platform (formerly ELITE PAI): a vision-language-action architecture with force feedback, natural-language task breakdown, few-shot learning from human demonstrations, semantic 3D mapping and long-horizon planning.
- Other details
- Station-stop accuracy of ±0.01 m with adaptive path planning. Target uses: optical-module assembly (optical coupling, fibre insertion), optical-module defect inspection and server-room inspection, plus smartphone-factory logistics, lab pipetting, retail and home cleaning.
From the maker
Centaur-G1 is the only humanoid from Elite Robots in the atlas.
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
- Built
- Maker said the robot reached productisation in May 2026
- Customers and pilots
- Joint labs with several unnamed optical-module makers
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Elite Robots launches Centaur-G1 in Hangzhou
The cobot maker launched its first wheeled humanoid and renamed its industrial embodied-AI platform Primo, targeting precision optical-module work.
China.com Tech
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 | Centaur-G1Elite Robots |  FeatherFeather RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Galbot S1Galbot (Galaxy General Robot)Same job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Unitree Dual-Arm Humanoid (R1-A5 / R1-A7 / R1-A5-D / R1-A7-D)Unitree RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-05-21 | 2026-09-24 | 2026-01-20 | 2026-04-30 |
| Status | Pilot use | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 180 cm | 179 cm | 160 cm |
| Weight | — | 105 kg | 320 kg | 32 kg |
| Joints | — | 23 | 17 | 22 |
| Speed | — | 4.7 km/h | 5.4 km/h | — |
| Payload | 10 kg | 6.8 kg | 50 kg | 4 kg |
| Battery | — | 10 h | 8 h | 1.5 h |
| Price | — | $29,990 | — | $4,290 |
Sources
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