Overview
A full-size wheeled reception robot from Beijing's Noetix Robotics, with a hyper-realistic platinum-silicone face, real-hair wig and a slim female-styled body on a rolling base. The head alone has 32 active facial and neck joints, and with two 5-joint arms and 6-joint dexterous hands the robot has 54 active degrees of freedom. It maps buildings with LiDAR, guides visitors, and chats through an onboard large language model, and Noetix pitches it for front desks, showrooms, government service halls, schools and hospital triage. It builds on the earlier W0 and shares its face technology with Noetix's half-body Xiao Nuo robot. The catch is that it is a business product with no published price, and its waxwork-grade face sits squarely in uncanny-valley territory for many visitors.
Specifications
| Category | Companion robots · Desk & social robots |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025 |
| Country | China |
| Availability | Available |
| Programmability | Limited SDK |
| Built-in autonomy | Navigates · Goes to places on its own, such as mapped rooms, waypoints or its charging dock |
| LLM support | Built-in LLM chat · Its conversation runs on a choice of Chinese large language models (Doubao, iFLYTEK or Qwen), with lip movements synced to the speech in real time. Noetix Hobbs W1 spec page ↗ |
| Best for | Professionals & labs |
| Vision sensors | Lidar, Depth camera, Camera, Sonar / ultrasonic |
| Actuators | Mixed |
| Audio | Speaker, Microphone |
| Compute type | Rockchip, x86 PC (Intel / AMD) |
| Remote control | Via SSH / web / bridge |
| Size | 52.5 × 52.5 × 170 cm, 75 kg (head 2.8 kg, each arm 3.3 kg) |
| Drive | Wheeled base (differential two-wheel drive plus casters), climbs 10° slopes and 18 mm steps, needs an 80 cm wide path |
| Compute | Rockchip RK3588 with Android 12, 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage for the AI interaction system. The mobile base uses an Intel J1900 quad-core CPU plus two 6 TOPS NPUs |
| Vision | RGB cameras in both eyes and one in the chest, plus depth cameras in the base |
| Lidar | Chassis LiDAR with 0–30 m scan radius for SLAM mapping and navigation |
| Sensors | Linear 4-microphone array, ultrasonic sensors, three ToF drop sensors, infrared docking for auto-recharge, 7-inch 1280 × 800 chest touchscreen |
| Runtime | About 6 hours at full load, 8 hours standby (32 Ah battery, 6.5 h standard charge or 2 h fast charge) |
| Speed | 1.2 m/s max |
| SDK | Android platform SDK with demo packages and developer documentation |
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