Yobotics E2

Yobotics

China

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The second-generation Xingzhe Taishan, which the company introduced in April 2025 as Xingzhe Taishan R2 and which the user calls E2, is the version of Yobotics' humanoid that turned a two-month prototype into a working machine. The first generation was built in two months in 2024 to fill a gap for Shandong; the second added the intelligence the first lacked, integrating active vision and multimodal large models and linking with DeepSeek to give the robot what the company calls an intelligent brain, which is why it can now respond, wave, shake hands and salute rather than merely move. It stands 1.7 m and weighs 58 kg on its own account, though the machines that competed at the 2026 games were measured at 1.38 m and 39 kg, and by 2026 the company had improved motion control, sensing and vision enough that the robots make autonomous decisions and adjust in real time. What the second generation is really known for is what it survived. On 18 June 2025 it ran a training test on the Mount Tai path, making it the industry's first humanoid to climb Mount Tai, and the company rates its motion performance as first tier on steep steps, gravel and wet rock. At the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games it entered five events, taking third in the 4x100 m relay, and in the 1500 m it fell while dodging a robot that crossed lanes, lost an arm, corrected itself and finished, which the chairman framed as a test of algorithmic resilience because a missing arm shifts the centre of gravity. In August 2026 it won the lightweight tug-of-war title for Shandong's first gold of the games, after training from late June on human tug-of-war data produced a side-on lunging stance. The company is eleven years into leg-foot robots, holds more than fifty core patents across motor, hydraulic and electro-hydraulic drive, and builds its humanoid work through a provincial manufacturing innovation centre with Hisense and a provincial key laboratory with Haier.