PrimeBOT officially launched the world's first transformable personal robot "Qiyuan T1," enabling autonomous switching between quadruped and wheel-foot humanoid forms on a single chassis without human intervention, designed to bridge the mobility and interaction gap between complex outdoor and indoor home environments.
Product Launch: The World's First Dual-Form Personal Robot
In July 2026, in Munich, PrimeBOT officially launched the world's first transformable personal robot—the "Qiyuan T1". The core innovation of this product lies in its ability to autonomously recognize and switch between quadruped and wheel-foot humanoid forms based on a single chassis, without human intervention.
The design philosophy is clear: to bridge the mobility and interaction gap between complex outdoor terrain and indoor home environments. Traditional robots either focus on outdoor rough terrain traversal (like quadruped robots) or indoor flat-floor efficiency (like wheeled robots), while the Qiyuan T1 attempts to meet both scenarios with one unified system.
Technical Analysis: How Dual Forms Switch Seamlessly
The Qiyuan T1's technical architecture demonstrates exceptionally high engineering integration. In different scenarios, the robot adopts different movement strategies:
Outdoor Mode—Quadruped Form:
- Adopts a quadruped stance to traverse uneven surfaces
- Can cross grass, gravel, slopes, and stairs
- Ensures stability for following, accompaniment, and load-carrying tasks
Indoor Mode—Wheel-Foot Humanoid Form:
- Automatically transitions to wheel-foot humanoid configuration
- Leverages silent wheel drive and zero turning radius
- Navigates tight spaces with agility
- Flexible force-control system enables natural human-centric interactions such as touching and holding hands
More critically, throughout the entire transformation process, movement, following, and interaction remain continuous, requiring no system restarts or resets. This means when users return home from outdoors, the robot can seamlessly continue its service without interrupting tasks due to form switching.
Underlying Architecture: Transformer-Driven Cross-Morph Control
The Qiyuan T1's technical core is a Transformer-based Cross-Morph Architecture.
From structure and joints to power and perception modules, every component is designed for dual-form reuse:
- Flip camera
- 45° tilted interaction screen
- Multi-microphone array
Its cross-morph locomotion base model uses a unified control framework to manage balance, movement, and posture in both forms, ensuring continuity and reliability during the switch. This architectural design dramatically reduces hardware redundancy, allowing a single chassis to efficiently support two fundamentally different locomotion modes.
From an application perspective, the T1 deeply integrates accompaniment, load transport, and home navigation functional modules. In the consumer robot market, this multi-scenario coverage capability may redefine the value proposition of personal robots.
Industry Significance: Expanding the Boundaries of Robotics Technology
The launch of the Qiyuan T1 signals that consumer-grade robots are evolving from single-function devices toward multi-scenario fusion.
| Technical Dimension | Traditional Quadruped | Traditional Wheeled | Qiyuan T1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terrain Adaptability | Strong (all-terrain) | Weak (flat only) | Dual-form coverage |
| Indoor Efficiency | Low | High | High |
| Human-Robot Interaction | Limited | Moderate | High (force-control natural interaction) |
| Hardware Redundancy | Single-purpose | Single-purpose | Low (cross-form reuse) |
| Scene Switching | Requires device swap | Requires device swap | Autonomous seamless switch |
For the automotive industry, the advancement of robotics technology is equally worth watching. From autonomous driving perception algorithms to smart cockpit interaction design, automobiles and robots are increasingly sharing technology stacks. Tesla, Xiaomi, XPeng and other automakers are already laying out humanoid robotics, and the form-switching technology demonstrated by the Qiyuan T1 may also inspire innovative thinking in automotive chassis architecture in the future.
COM, overseas buyers tracking the automotive and intelligent mobility sectors can simultaneously monitor the latest product developments in both automotive and robotics, capturing the evolution trends of the intelligent mobility ecosystem.
