Yobotics E1
行者泰山（E1）
Key Highlights
E1, known as Xingzhe Taishan or 行者泰山, is the only humanoid in Yobotics' range, and the company built it in under two months in 2024 to fill a gap for Shandong province. The published specification is compact rather than human-sized: it stands 143 cm and weighs 44 kg including the battery, with 21 degrees of freedom in total, six per leg and four per arm plus one at the waist, and an optional multi-finger dexterous hand in place of a plain one. What makes it unusual for its size is the drivetrain. Every joint runs a high-speed, high-torque outer-rotor torque motor peaking at 144 newton metres and turning to 160 rpm, which the company credits for a top speed of up to 4.5 metres per second, obstacle clearance of 30 cm, stair climbing of 25 cm and a 20 degree slope, across gravel, complex terrain, stairs and slopes. It sees through a LIVOX MID360 3D lidar and an Intel RealSense D435i depth camera, talks through a stereo system rated at 5 watts, and runs about two hours on a large quick-release battery. The company sells it as a platform rather than a machine: an open training framework and open SDK interfaces, teaching materials and full training, and a place on the Ministry of Education's whitelist competition programme. The competition record backs the numbers. In 2025 it took Shandong's 100 metre exhibition gold and the 4x100 metre relay bronze, and finished the 1500 metres on a self-developed fall-recovery algorithm after losing an arm; in August 2026 it won the tug-of-war outright, with the whole bout run autonomously and no body rotation allowed to generate extra torque, after training from late June on large quantities of human tug-of-war data and settling on a sideways lunge stance because leaning straight back topples a robot. One note on the source: the company's humanoid page text still carries an old 1700 mm figure and an under 2 m/s speed, neither of which matches the parameter table it serves as images, and the table is what is recorded here.
Application Scenarios
Education and research, safety inspection, emergency rescue and smart guidance, which are the company's published application categories and the ones its humanoid line is offered under, supported by the open training framework, SDK and Ministry of Education whitelist competition platform positioning; the company's wider stated direction for the humanoid line is industrial work and consumer humanoid development funded by its 2026 round.
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