❯ Zhihui Jun launches the Qiyuan Q1 and T1 humanoids, first to plug into Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy

two productsZhihui Jun launched Qiyuan Q1 and T1, two consumer-grade humanoid robots. Q1 is positioned as a personal robot: 88 cm tall, foldable into a backpack, with customizable exterior structural parts; T1 switches between a wheeled-leg humanoid form and a quadruped form. The company calls them respectively the world’s first personal robot and the world’s first transformable personal robot.

hardware and ecosystemThe standout hardware is the in-house “egg joint,” which the company says is the smallest in volume in mass production in the industry: 260 grams, 47 mm in diameter, with a peak torque density of 85 N·m/kg. On the ecosystem side, both robots are the first to plug into Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy, making Qiyuan the first embodied-AI company on the platform — robots now call skill modules from the cloud to do work. WorkBuddy’s earlier adopters were mainly financial institutions and enterprise software.

the interface fightThe integration deserves its own look. Differentiating the robot body is getting harder, and where the skills come from is becoming the new dividing line: build a full stack in-house, or plug into a cloud platform that already has a skill matrix. Pushing WorkBuddy from office scenarios into embodied AI is Tencent claiming the interface position in the robot skill layer. What to watch is whether adopters extend beyond Qiyuan to other robot makers — if they do, WorkBuddy stops being an office product.

▪ SIGNALRobots now fetch their skills from the cloud; anyone can build the body, but which platform supplies the skills is the next position to hold.