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HumanoidEngineAI (Zhongqing Robotics)2024CN

EngineAI PM01

1.38 m, 40 kg developer and commercial humanoid with open training and deployment code; it performed the first humanoid front flip (Feb 2025).

activeBuyL1 Compilednot buildable

Difficulty index

10.5/13
10.5
Index breakdown
Classhumanoid+5
Cost$12k list+2.1
DOF24 DOF+2.4
Partsunknown · midpoint+1
How the index works

Top of the ladder. This robot lives on the humanoid domains.

Specimen photographs

2 items
  • Introducing ENGINEAI PM01 – The Ultimate Embodied Intelligent Humanoid HardwareEngineai Robot · official video, embedded · source
  • EngineAI — the world's first humanoid robot to perform a front flip!Engineai Robot · official video, embedded · source

Spec card

9/13 known
Degrees of freedom
24
Height
138 cm
Mass
40 kg
Speed
2 m/s
Runtime
120 min
Price
$12k · US$12,000 at launch per Maginative / The Robot Report.
Actuators
EngineAI electric actuators (up to 300 N·m)
Compute
Intel N97 + NVIDIA Jetson Orin
Sensors
Intel RealSense depth camera

Not in the registry: payload, battery, bom total, part count. Left blank rather than guessed.

What you learn building it

  • +Whole-body control
  • +Dozens of actuators on one bus
  • +Balance and fall handling
  • +Safe bring-up of a full-size machine
  • +Testing in simulation (URDF/MJCF) before touching hardware

Openness

30/100
  • not publicCAD
  • not publicBOM
  • not publicFirmware
  • publicSim model
  • publicSoftware
  • not publicPolicies

Score 30/100 computed from what is public: CAD 25, BOM 20, sim 20, firmware 15, software 10, policies 10. Hardware license: Proprietary. Software license: BSD-3-Clause.

Repos & models

URDF ↗
Site

Build it

Closed hardware. Buy link only.

humanoidrobot.build/engineai/pm01 · Closed hardware. Buy link only.

Simulate

Load it in the browser simulator and train a policy before building.

Open on humanoidrobots.training ↗

Next rung

None. This is the top. Find people building it on humanoidrobots.team.

This is the top of the ladder.

NoteLaunched Dec 2024. Sibling SE01 (Oct 2024; 170 cm, 55 kg, 32 DOF) targets industry, and the T800 (1.73 m) is a newer full-size model. The company filed for a Hong Kong IPO in Apr 2026. The description repo has no license file.

Sources

  1. [1]Wikipedia: Engine AIchecked 2026-09-24
  2. [2]Maginative PM01 launchchecked 2026-09-24
  3. [3]The Robot Report PM01checked 2026-09-24