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Qinglong
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Qinglong

A 1.85 m, 80 kg open-source humanoid with 43 active joints and 400 Nm peak torque, unveiled at WAIC 2024.

Price
—Not published
Height
185 cmTaller than 94%
Weight
80 kgHeavier than 73%
Payload
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Battery
—Not published

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Why it matters

First robot of China's OpenLoong open-source full-size humanoid project.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2024-07-04
Released
Not yet
World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024, Shanghai

Maker

Humanoid Robots (Shanghai) / National-Local Joint Humanoid Robot Innovation CenterConsortium · Shanghai, China

Registered capital 1 billion yuan (about $140 million).

How it stacks up

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

Not published by the maker: speed, payload, battery, price.

What it has been shown doing

1 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.

  • Pick & sortDemoWAIC 2024: on voice command picked up soft bread and placed it in a basket · Jul 2024 · technode.com

Not shown yet:AssembleFoldKitchenToolsFineStairsTerrainGet upRunJumpCarryOn siteAutonomous

Public attention

How much public attention Qinglong 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
Walks on legs · 43 joints
Actuators & motors
43 active DoF; maximum joint peak torque 400 Nm.
Hands
Lightweight, high-precision upper limbs (no hand specs).
Compute
400 TOPS.
AI & software
Embodied intelligence software package slated for open-sourcing; hardware structure and parameters published via OpenLoong.
Other details
Built by Humanoid Robots (Shanghai), registered capital 1 billion yuan, named a national-local joint innovation centre by MIIT in May 2024.

From the maker

Qinglong is the only humanoid from Humanoid Robots (Shanghai) / National-Local Joint Humanoid Robot Innovation Center in the atlas.

Watch Qinglong

Video: CGTN 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
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Built
Open-source reference design (OpenLoong community); not sold.
Where it is sold or used
China

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Qinglong unveiled at WAIC 2024

    185 cm, 80 kg open-source humanoid; a new model planned each year named after a zodiac animal.

    TechNode

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 the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

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