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Bumi
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Noetix Robotics · education humanoid

Bumi

A 94 cm, 12 kg walking humanoid for families and children, with voice chat and drag-and-drop programming.

Price
$1,400Cheaper than 100%
Height
94 cmTaller than 6%
Weight
12 kgHeavier than 4%
Payload
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Battery
2 hRuns longer than 15%

Official maker page, not an affiliate link. Checked 2026-10-10.

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Why it matters

Cheapest full-body walking humanoid on sale as of late 2025.

Real-world use

About 500 units sold in the first two days of pre-sales.

Timeline

First shown
2025-10-23
Released
2026-03
Noetix pre-sale launch

Maker

Noetix RoboticsCompany · founded 2023 · Beijing, China

About 300 million yuan pre-B (Oct 2025, led by Vertex Ventures) and 200 million yuan pre-B+ (Nov 2025)

How it stacks up

Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

Not published by the maker: speed, payload, joints.

What it has been shown doing

We checked public videos and press for Bumi and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.

Public attention

How much public attention Bumi gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 3 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 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Hands
unknown
Movement
Walks on legs
Actuators & motors
Small in-house-driven motors with in-house control boards and motor drivers (no figures).
Sensors & vision
Front-facing camera 'eyes' for scanning surroundings, objects and faces; domestically sourced sensors.
Compute
Rockchip processors.
Battery & power
48 V, about 3.5 Ah; 1-2 hours per charge.
Materials & build
Lightweight composites, reinforced with metal only where needed.
AI & software
In-house motion control; drag-and-drop graphical programming; open programming interface; voice interaction.
Other details
Nearly all parts sourced in China; factories in Beijing and Changzhou.

Named suppliers:Rockchip

Lineage

Every Noetix Robotics humanoid in order.

  1. N2N22025Commercial
  2. E1E12025Commercial
  3. BumiBumi2025Commercial
  4. Hobbs W1Hobbs W12025Commercial

Watch Bumi

Video: Noetix Robotics on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
$1,400CNY 9,998 (about $1,400); first consumer humanoid in China under CNY 10,000.
How to get one
Maker's website
Sold or delivered
100+ sold in the first hour and first 500 sold out within two days on JD.com (Oct 2025); several thousand orders by end-2025 (company).
Where it is sold or used
China (JD.com, offline); deliveries from March 2026.

News

The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Noetix closes Series B of nearly 1 billion yuan

    Its ninth round; Bumi orders reached several thousand by end-2025 with deliveries from March 2026 (company).

    Gasgoo
  2. Noetix raises about 300 million yuan Pre-B and explains Bumi's low cost

    Vertical integration, lighter structure and a local supply chain cut cost; target 1,000 units a month.

    TechNode
  3. Bumi pre-sales open at 9,998 yuan

    94 cm, 12 kg consumer and education humanoid.

    Interesting Engineering

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

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Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

Interesting Engineering Bumi: world's cheapest humanoid robot Yanko Design Bumi is an inexpensive humanoid robot that'll entertain and educate you Gasgoo Noetix Robotics closes Series B funding TechNode After new funding, Noetix explains how it built a humanoid robot cheaper than an iPhone

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