China Steps Up Efforts to Dominate Humanoid Robotics Market
China is stepping up its efforts to lead the global humanoid robotics market.
NAVIAI
The Navigator 2, also known as NAVIAI, is a humanoid robot developed by the Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center in China, supported by SUPCON. Introduced in 2024, it stands about 1.65 meters (5 feet 5 inches) tall, weighs around 60 kilograms (132 pounds), and features 41 degrees of freedom. The robot is equipped with advanced multimodal sensing, including vision, depth cameras, and touch sensors, and its arms can lift up to 5 kilograms (11 pounds) each. Powered by an AI processor capable of 275 trillion operations per second, NAVIAI is designed for complex perception, navigation, object manipulation, and human-robot interaction.