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SA01
EngineAIThe SA01 is a humanoid robot developed by EngineAI Robotics (founded October 2023, Shenzhen, China), priced at $5,400 and positioned as a customizable, open-source educational platform. It was publicly debuted at CES 2025 alongside the SE01 and PM01. A key unresolved question is whether the SA01 (and EngineAI's humanoids generally) operate autonomously or via remote control — at least one independent source explicitly flagged this uncertainty after observing the robot's walking demonstrations. The company has raised substantial funding (~RMB 1 billion in mid-2025 plus a $141.4M Series A), with JD.com as a lead investor, and targets 1,000 units across all models by end of 2025.
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Evidence-graded claims from the EngineAI deep report
EngineAI's SE01/PM01 humanoid robots are available for global commercial sale at ~$12,000–$13,700 USD (promotional pricing through March 2025), making them among the most affordable full-size humanoids on the market.
The Robot Report [3] and DeepLearning.AI's The Batch [5] — both independent news outlets — confirm the ~$12,000–$13,700 pricing and December 24, 2024 global availability; whether sustained post-promotional demand or actual unit deliveries at scale have occurred remains unverified.
from EngineAI deep report →EngineAI's robots demonstrate autonomous, naturalistic human-like walking gait and can sprint alongside a human — a locomotion capability independently observed at public demos including CES Las Vegas.
Reddit community posts [12] and independent news/commerce sources [5] corroborate the naturalistic gait and sprinting demonstrations; however, these confirm locomotion only — no independent source verifies autonomous task execution (manipulation, industrial work) beyond walking/running.
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EngineAI has raised approximately $180+ million USD in total funding, with JD.com as lead investor, and filed for a Hong Kong IPO in June 2026.
The Robot Report [6] and PR Newswire [7] independently confirm ~$139.7M across pre-A++ and A1 rounds with JD.com leading; Business Insider [8] cites $180.69M for a December 2025 round; the IPO filing rests on a single Bloomberg report [9] — funding trajectory is credible but the IPO status is single-sourced and unconfirmed.
from EngineAI deep report →The T800's hardware specifications — 29 DoF, 450 N·m peak torque, 3 m/s max speed, NVIDIA Jetson Thor AI, solid-state battery, 360° LiDAR — represent its actual production capabilities.
These specs are sourced exclusively from a commerce review site (awesomerobots.xyz) [4] that derives them from vendor materials; no independent teardown, third-party benchmark, or regulatory filing corroborates these figures.
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EngineAI is in mass production and actively deploying humanoid robots at scale for commercial and industrial customers.
While SE01/PM01 are listed as commercially available since December 2024 [3][5], no independent source in the dossier documents actual mass production volumes, confirmed customer deployments, or operational outcomes at scale — the evidence covers pricing and demos only.
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