Deep Robotics
Deep Robotics, formally Hangzhou Yunshen Technology, is the embodied AI company founded in 2017 by Zhejiang University doctors Zhu Qiuguo and Li Chao, the first in China to run fully autonomous substation inspections by quadruped, whose Jueying line spans the Lite3 research platform, the X20 and flagship X30 industrial quadrupeds, the Lynx wheel legged family, the DR01 and all weather DR02 humanoids and the J series joint modules.
Deep Robotics
Before humanoids filled expo halls, somebody had to convince a power grid to trust a robot in a live substation, and the company that did it first in China is this one. Deep Robotics, formally Hangzhou Yunshen Technology, was founded in 2017 by Zhu Qiuguo and Li Chao, both doctors of Zhejiang University, and built its reputation the unglamorous way: fielded hours. Its Jueying quadrupeds, the line takes its name from the legendary horse of Cao Cao, performed the country's first fully autonomous substation inspections, then compiled a client list that reads like heavy infrastructure itself, State Grid Corporation of China, China Southern Power Grid, Baosteel, and carried the method abroad, the flagship X30 pioneering smart inspection inside Singapore's power cable tunnels.
That deployment first pedigree now funds a full embodied AI portfolio. The Jueying quadrupeds ladder from the 12 to 13.5 kilogramme Lite3 research platform through the industrial X20 to the IP67 X30 flagship with its autonomous charging docks; the Lynx family, led by the LYNX M20, defines the wheel legged tier outright; the DR01 and DR02 humanoids extend the company onto two legs, the DR02 billed as the world's first all weather humanoid; and the J series joint modules sell the actuation itself, a portfolio backed by a Series C financing round exceeding 500 million yuan to accelerate core embodied AI technology and industry deployment.
Across the quadruped, wheeled quadruped and humanoid categories, the full Deep Robotics range for sale can be explored through this page.
Background
Founded on a harder question
Most robotics companies of the 2017 generation asked what legged machines could do; Deep Robotics asked what infrastructure would pay them to do, and engineered backward from the answer. The result was a company shaped like its customers: robots specified for cable tunnels, substations, mines and disaster sites, software built around inspection workflows rather than demonstrations, and the field mileage, years of it, on live grid assets, that turned "robot dog inspecting power lines" from concept into stock footage. When the embodied AI boom arrived, Deep Robotics was already deployed.
From dogs to a full embodied stack
The company's expansion has followed capability, not fashion: the Lynx wheel legged family emerged in 2024 from the recognition that inspection routes mix rolling ground with legged obstacles, and promptly set the hybrid tier's standard; the DR01 humanoid arrived in August 2024 with the all weather DR02 behind it, extending the industrial philosophy to two legs; and the J60, J80 and J100 joint modules opened the company's actuation to outside builders, a quadruped specialist maturing into an embodied AI house, showcased across its whole series at IROS 2025 in its home city of Hangzhou.
The Deep Robotics Lineup
Jueying X30: The Industry Flagship
The X30 is the quadruped Deep Robotics' reputation rides on: IP67 sealed, rated from minus 20 to 55 Celsius, climbing 45 degree stairs, and engineered for the inspection, investigation, security and surveying missions of core industry, with autonomous charging docks enabling genuinely unattended rounds. Its software closes the loop its buyers actually need: data collection into backend access, analytics, report generation and defect alerts, the machine as the front end of an inspection system rather than a camera on legs, battle tested across grids, tunnels and plants and now on international duty in Singapore.
Jueying X20: The Proven Patroller
The X20 carries the industrial line's field configurations: the platform behind solution builds equipped with sirens, beacons, dual spectrum gimbals and two way audio for perimeter patrol and incident response across complex terrain, the working generation whose deployments wrote the playbooks the flagship inherited.
Jueying Lite3: The Research Star
The Lite3 is the accessible door into the ecosystem: a 12 to 13.5 kilogramme bionic quadruped offered in Basic, Venture, Pro and LiDAR builds, with ROS and ROS 2 packages, motion control SDKs and perception APIs opening locomotion, perception and reinforcement learning research, high driving force at student programme pricing, and the acknowledged star attraction of the company's IROS 2025 stand.
The Lynx Family: Wheel Legged Leadership
Deep Robotics owns the hybrid conversation through the Lynx line: the agile Lynx Sport that introduced the form's athleticism, the LYNX M20, marketed as the world's first wheeled legged robot for extreme industrial environments, 33 kilogrammes, IP66, dual 96 line LiDAR, 15 kilometre rounds, with its M20 Pro and M20 S trims, and the Lynx S10 line with its own autonomous charging, machines already proving themselves in emergency rescue deployments where rolling speed and stepping capability share one mission.
DR01 and DR02: The Humanoids
The humanoid line applies the house philosophy to two legs: the DR01, unveiled in August 2024, established the platform, and the DR02 advances it as the world's first all weather humanoid, the biped built for the outdoor, industrial conditions its quadruped siblings already work, humanoids from a company whose machines have never lived indoors.
J Series Joints and the Accessory Ecosystem
The J60, J80 and J100 joint modules sell Deep Robotics' actuation to the wider robotics world, whilst the accessory catalogue keeps fleets running: official Lite3 and X30 batteries, and autonomous charging docks across the X30, Lynx S10 Pro and M20 lines, the infrastructure of unattended operation available through the robot accessories channel.
Product Overview
| Product | Class | Key Figures | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jueying X30 | Industrial quadruped flagship | IP67, 45° stairs, −20–55 °C, auto charging | Grid, tunnel and plant inspection |
| Jueying X20 | Industrial quadruped | Patrol solution configurations | Perimeter and incident response |
| Jueying Lite3 | Research quadruped | 12–13.5 kg; Basic / Venture / Pro / LiDAR | Education, research, development |
| Lynx Sport | Wheel legged compact | 5 m/s, 80 cm platforms, 50 cm corridors | Agile hybrid missions |
| LYNX M20 / Pro / S | Wheel legged industrial | 33 kg, IP66, dual 96 line LiDAR, 15 km | The hybrid tier's reference |
| Lynx S10 / S10 Pro | Wheel legged line | Autonomous charging dock support | Extended hybrid operations |
| DR01 / DR02 | Humanoids | DR02: world's first all weather humanoid | Industrial bipedal frontier |
| J60 / J80 / J100 | Joint modules | Deep Robotics actuation as components | Builders and integrators |
Figures follow published specifications; configurations are confirmed at quotation.
Which Deep Robotics machine suits which buyer?
Follow the mission down the company's own industry list. Power and utilities operators, the founding constituency, specify the X30 with autonomous charging for substation, cable tunnel and grid rounds; security and incident response deployments configure the X20's patrol builds; rescue and emergency teams take the Lynx hybrids whose wheel legged speed reaches scenes across broken ground; mines, tunnels and construction sites weigh the X30 against the M20 by route profile; laboratories and classrooms start at the Lite3's open SDK stack; humanoid programmes with outdoor ambitions watch the DR02's all weather brief; and integrators building their own machines buy the J series joints. Across the fleet, cross brand mission software, RoboPatrol and RoboInspect class systems from the robot software catalogue, rides above the maker's own inspection workflow suite.
Technology
Inspection as a closed loop
Deep Robotics' defining software is the workflow, not the walk: multi LiDAR SLAM through GPS denied tunnels and plants, RGB and thermal imaging with low light handling, RTK options, and the pipeline from collected data to backend analytics, generated reports and defect alerts, inspection delivered as an outcome, with enterprise platforms receiving what the robot saw, the system design that infrastructure clients actually procure.
All weather as a house standard
From the X30's IP67 and 75 degree thermal span to the M20's IP66 and the DR02's all weather humanoid claim, environmental hardening is the company signature: machines engineered for the rain, dust, heat and frost of the industries that hired them first, an ethos now crossing form factors intact.
Unattended by architecture
Autonomous charging docks across the X30, S10 Pro and M20 lines close the operational loop: robots that run their rounds, dock themselves and return to duty without a technician at the outlet, hot swap batteries covering the missions between, continuous operation as configured infrastructure rather than aspiration.
Actuation and openness in house
The J series modules confirm what the machines imply, self developed high performance joints, whilst the Lite3's ROS 2 packages, motion SDKs and perception APIs keep the ecosystem open to the research community that keeps a platform honest, vertical integration below, open interfaces above.
What are Deep Robotics machines used for?
- Power and utilities inspection: substation, grid and cable tunnel rounds across inspection robotics, the missions the company industrialised first.
- Rescue and emergency response: wheel legged and quadruped reconnaissance across emergency response robotics, the Lynx machines' proving ground.
- Tunnel, mining and metal industries: GPS denied, hazardous environment patrols across heavy industrial robotics.
- Construction and surveying: mapping and monitoring missions across active sites.
- Security patrol: X20 class configured rounds across security robotics, sirens to two way audio.
- Research and education: the Lite3's open stack across research and educational robotics, and the whole series as embodied AI reference hardware.
Pricing and Availability
Deep Robotics machines are available for purchase across Europe and worldwide, from single Lite3 units to X30 inspection fleets with autonomous charging infrastructure and Lynx hybrid deployments, alongside the wider quadruped and humanoid catalogues on Robots Europa. Deep Robotics price and cost vary considerably by model, build, payloads and infrastructure, so buyers seeking Deep Robotics 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 Deep Robotics machines can be found on this page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Deep Robotics?
Deep Robotics, formally Hangzhou Yunshen Technology, is a Chinese embodied AI company founded in 2017 by Zhejiang University doctors Zhu Qiuguo and Li Chao, maker of the Jueying quadruped line, the Lynx wheel legged family, the DR01 and DR02 humanoids and the J series joints, and the first company in China to run fully autonomous substation inspections by quadruped.
How do Deep Robotics robots work?
They navigate by multi LiDAR SLAM through GPS denied industrial environments, sense through RGB, thermal and up to dual 96 line LiDAR stacks, execute inspection workflows that flow into backend analytics, reports and defect alerts, endure through hot swap batteries and autonomous charging docks and develop through ROS 2 packages, SDKs and open APIs.
Why is Deep Robotics important?
It industrialised quadruped inspection before the category was fashionable: China's first autonomous substation rounds, a client list spanning State Grid, China Southern Power Grid and Baosteel, international deployments in Singapore's cable tunnels and, in the Lynx family, leadership of the wheel legged tier, deployment credibility the embodied AI boom now builds upon, funded by a Series C exceeding 500 million yuan.
What are the benefits of Deep Robotics machines?
Key benefits include grid proven reliability with real infrastructure mileage, all weather engineering from IP67 quadrupeds to the all weather DR02 humanoid, closed loop inspection software delivering reports rather than footage, unattended operation through autonomous charging, an open research stack on the Lite3 and self developed actuation down to purchasable joints.
What is the Deep Robotics X30?
The X30 is the Jueying flagship: an IP67 industrial quadruped rated from minus 20 to 55 Celsius, climbing 45 degree stairs, supporting autonomous charging for unattended rounds and carrying the company's full inspection workflow, the machine battle tested across power, tunnel and plant missions and deployed internationally.
What humanoids does Deep Robotics make?
Two: the DR01, unveiled in August 2024 as the company's humanoid debut, and the DR02, positioned as the world's first all weather humanoid, extending Deep Robotics' outdoor, industrial engineering philosophy onto two legs, with configurations and availability confirmed at quotation.
Where can I buy Deep Robotics machines and what do they cost?
Deep Robotics machines 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 considerably by model and configuration, buyers should request a tailored quotation. Full purchasing details are available on this page.
Summary
Deep Robotics is what embodied AI looks like when it starts from the invoice: robots shaped by the substations, tunnels and disaster sites that pay for them, proven across China's grids and Singapore's cables, hardened to IP67 and 45 degree stairs, charging themselves between unattended rounds, and reporting defects rather than filming them. From the Lite3 on the laboratory bench through the X30 flagship and the tier defining Lynx hybrids to an all weather humanoid and joints sold by the module, the Jueying house has widened without softening. As the deployment first specialist of legged robotics, Deep Robotics stands as the category's proof of work, and this page as the European starting point for hiring it.
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