Casbot

Before most humanoid startups had shipped a demonstration video, Casbot had robots on a production line. In September 2024 the brand of Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robot Technology signed a strategic cooperation with Lenovo and put its humanoids to work inside the computing giant's intelligent manufacturing factory, applying compliant force control and high precision operation to live production tasks, a deployment reference most of the industry is still chasing. Only afterwards came the unveiling: at CES 2025 in Las Vegas the company introduced the world to CASBOT 01, a full size biped nicknamed "Wednesday," 1.79 metres and 60 kilogrammes, carrying 52 degrees of freedom, 550 TOPS of onboard computing and more than four hours of continuous runtime, its bionic industrial design wrapped over a high strength metal skeleton engineered as a reinforced ultra thin hollow structure, stiff, impact resistant and light at once.

The range has since split along the industry's natural seam. The CASBOT 01 carries the heavy brief, manufacturing, commercial operations and demanding scenarios from aviation support to emergency response, whilst the second generation CASBOT 02 takes the human facing one: a compact 163 centimetre, roughly 50 kilogramme biped in a soft shelled, edge free body, pairing dexterous hands and dual arms with 275 TOPS of split architecture computing, large language model conversation and optional VR teleoperation, built to welcome, guide and teach among people. Behind both stands one embodied intelligence stack, a hierarchical end to end model refined by reinforcement learning post training, and a company opening its foundational skills library to industry partners as it scales toward mass production on fresh funding of nearly ¥100 million closed in June 2025.

Within the wider humanoid and bipedal categories, the full Casbot range for sale can be explored through this page.

Background

Proof before premiere

Casbot's sequencing is its argument: factory first, trade show second. The Lenovo deployment predates the CES debut, meaning the CASBOT 01 arrived in Las Vegas not as a promise but as a machine already improving automation levels and reducing cost on a working line, and that order of proof shapes how the brand engineers, prioritising real time force and torque control, high frequency joint communication and the compliant contact behaviour production work demands, over the spectacle metrics that headline elsewhere.

One brain, two bodies

Rather than stretch one chassis across every mission, Casbot built two around a shared intelligence architecture: the same hierarchical end to end model with reinforcement learning post training, the same task decomposition and adaptability, expressed at full industrial scale in the 01 and at approachable interactive scale in the 02, with a foundational skills library the company is deliberately opening to partners so that capabilities compound across the ecosystem rather than inside one laboratory.

The Casbot Lineup

CASBOT 01: The Industrial Flagship

The CASBOT 01, "Wednesday," is the full statement machine: 1.79 metres, 60 kilogrammes, 52 degrees of freedom driven through a self developed high efficiency joint system, 550 TOPS of computing and over four hours of continuous operation. Its two degree of freedom head carries the sensor suite for visual and auditory interaction, its precision bionic dexterous hands and high dynamic force control handle fine manipulation, and its structure, high strength metal formed as a reinforced ultra thin hollow cavity, balances stability and impact resistance against weight. It is the configuration proven at Lenovo and aimed across industrial manufacturing, commercial services, smart home development, aviation and navigation support and emergency response scenarios.

CASBOT 02: The Interactive Generation

The CASBOT 02 packages the platform for people. At roughly 163 centimetres and 50 kilogrammes, with 25 degrees of freedom before its dexterous hands are counted, it walks, turns and self balances across indoor floors in a wrapped, split type soft shell body designed without sharp edges, safe by construction for receptions, classrooms and exhibition halls. Its computing splits by role, an NVIDIA Orin AGX robot control unit delivering the core of its 275 TOPS for perception, planning and large model inference, beside an RK3588 based interaction unit handling multimedia and human engagement, and its senses fuse depth, stereo and audio streams into scene and person recognition. Guests meet it through voice and gesture, cloud and edge large language model conversation, voiceprint recognition and facial tracking, preset social gestures from waves and handshakes to a game of rock paper scissors, and operators can steer it live through an optional VR teleoperation kit.

Lineup Overview

Figures follow published specifications; configurations are confirmed at quotation.

Which buyers does Casbot suit?

The two machines sort buyers cleanly. Manufacturers and industrial operators evaluating humanoid labour take the CASBOT 01, the machine with a named factory reference, across industrial and factory robotics. Venues staffing welcomes, tours and engagement take the CASBOT 02's soft bodied safety and conversational stack across commercial and exhibition settings. Schools and universities take the 02 as a teaching and demonstration platform across educational robotics, research groups take either body with the platform's end to end architecture and teleoperation for data collection across research robotics, and organisations in demanding domains, aviation support through emergency response, evaluate the 01's force controlled robustness, with mission software from the robot software catalogue completing deployments.

Technology

Force control as first language

Casbot's platform speaks contact natively: real time force and torque regulation over high frequency joint communication, compliant behaviour where the robot meets workpieces and people, and the high dynamic control that let its hands earn a place on a live production line, the capability set that separates humanoids that perform tasks from humanoids that survive them.

A hierarchy that learns

The intelligence stack layers a hierarchical end to end model, decomposing tasks from goal to motion, with reinforcement learning post training that adapts behaviour through experience, running across an edge and cloud interplay tuned for low latency control, and feeding a foundational skills library the company opens to industry partners, deployment experience compounding into shared capability.

Perception built for people

The CASBOT 02's sensing shows the service brief in hardware: depth and stereo vision fused with an audio array for scene understanding, voiceprint recognition attaching identity to speech, facial tracking holding engagement through conversation, and large language models at cloud and edge giving the interaction its fluency, with VR teleoperation as the human in the loop channel for demonstrations and delicate moments.

Structure as a weight strategy

The 01's skeleton solves the biped's oldest trade: high strength metal formed into reinforced, ultra thin hollow sections delivers stiffness and impact resistance at reduced mass, protecting runtime and dynamics, while the 02 answers the same question socially, its wrapped soft shell removing hard edges so that safety around people is a property of the body, not only of the software.

What are Casbot robots used for?

1. Industrial manufacturing: force controlled production line tasks in the Lenovo mould across industrial and factory robotics.
2. Reception and guest engagement: conversational welcome, guidance and interaction on the 02 across commercial robotics.
3. Exhibitions and demonstrations: safe close quarters presence with social gestures across exhibition robotics.
4. Education: humanoid teaching, AI demonstration and interaction studies across educational robotics.
5. Research and data collection: end to end architecture studies and VR teleoperated demonstration capture across research robotics.
6. Demanding scenario development: aviation and navigation support and emergency response applications on the 01's robust platform.

Pricing and Availability

Casbot humanoid robots are available for purchase across Europe and worldwide, from single CASBOT 02 interactive units to CASBOT 01 industrial programmes, alongside the wider humanoid catalogue on Robots Europa. Casbot price and cost vary by model, configuration and deployment scope, so buyers seeking CASBOT robots for sale should request a current quotation for their requirements, with European delivery, customs clearance and support arranged through Robots Europa. Purchasing enquiries, specification sheets and availability details for those looking to buy Casbot robots can be found on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Casbot?

Casbot is the humanoid robotics brand of Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robot Technology: maker of the CASBOT 01, the 52 degree of freedom industrial flagship deployed in Lenovo's intelligent manufacturing factory, and the CASBOT 02, its soft shelled interactive second generation for reception, education and research.

How do Casbot robots work?

They run a shared embodied intelligence architecture, a hierarchical end to end model with reinforcement learning post training, over real time force and torque control and high frequency joint communication, perceiving through depth, stereo and audio sensing with voiceprint and facial tracking, and interacting through cloud and edge large language models with optional VR teleoperation.

What is the CASBOT 01?

The CASBOT 01, nicknamed Wednesday and unveiled at CES 2025, is a 1.79 metre, 60 kilogramme full size biped with 52 degrees of freedom, 550 TOPS of computing, four plus hours of runtime, precision bionic dexterous hands and a reinforced ultra thin hollow metal structure, aimed at industrial, commercial and demanding scenario work.

What is the CASBOT 02?

The CASBOT 02 is the compact interactive generation: about 163 centimetres and 50 kilogrammes with 25 degrees of freedom plus dexterous hands, 275 TOPS split between an Orin AGX control unit and an RK3588 interaction unit, a soft edge free body, conversational AI, social gestures and optional VR teleoperation for guest facing and educational roles.

Why is Casbot's Lenovo deployment significant?

Because it reverses the industry's usual order: Casbot humanoids were applying compliant force control on a live intelligent manufacturing line from September 2024, before the brand's public debut, giving buyers what humanoid procurement most lacks, a named, working factory reference behind the specification sheet.

What are the benefits of Casbot robots?

Key benefits include production proven force control, a two body range matching industrial and interactive missions without compromise, serious onboard computing at both scales, inherent physical safety in the 02's soft shell design, an opening skills library that compounds capability and a platform architecture built for adaptation rather than scripted repetition.

Where can I buy Casbot robots and what do they cost?

Casbot robots are for sale through Robots Europa, serving the United Kingdom, the European Union and markets worldwide with delivery, customs clearance and support. Because cost varies by model and configuration, buyers should request a tailored quotation. Full purchasing details are available on this page.

Summary

Casbot is the humanoid company that got the order right: a factory reference before a trade show reveal, force control before flourish, and then a range split precisely along the industry's real divide, the CASBOT 01 carrying 52 degrees of freedom and 550 TOPS into industrial and demanding work with Lenovo's line as its testimonial, the CASBOT 02 wrapping the same intelligence in a soft, conversational body that belongs among guests and students. One learning architecture, an opening skills library and fresh mass production funding give the pair a common trajectory. As the deployment-first name among full size humanoids, Casbot stands on proof where others stand on promise, and this page as the European starting point for putting it to work.

v3, August 9, 2026