Beijing-based NeodraDynamics Robotics showed a 13-foot-tall, 1.2-ton humanoid robot called Neo1 at the 2026 China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, which ran Oct. 12–16. The company says the machine can lift 500kg, about 1,102 pounds, with both arms together.
NeodraDynamics exhibited the robot with JD Industrial, which will help the company find pilot projects through its industrial supply chain and customer base, according to the company’s Oct. 14 press release. The Neo1 first appeared at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing.
The Neo1 stands roughly four meters tall and has 41 active joints. Thirty-nine of them use miniature digital hydraulic linear actuators that NeodraDynamics developed itself, each weighing about 1kg and producing what the company calls “ton-level continuous thrust.” Electric drives handle the two forearm rotation joints.
The company claims the Neo1 can return to a position to within ±0.005mm. Its September release gave a fingertip repeatability of ±0.05mm, a gap that Aparobot pointed out, and none of the payload or accuracy figures has been independently tested.
NeodraDynamics designed the Neo1 for what it calls “4D” work, meaning dangerous, dirty, difficult and dull jobs. The release lists heavy component assembly, port cargo handling, nuclear fuel transfer, subsea equipment maintenance under “ultra-high underwater pressure,” and demolition and debris clearance in mining and disaster zones. The company pitches it for “sky, ground and sea” missions.
Photos from the fair show the Neo1 towering over attendees, and Futurism wrote that it “looks like it was yanked straight out of a pulpy sci-fi movie.” The press release says the hydraulic-electric hybrid drive “thoroughly eliminates robots’ power and environmental adaptation anxieties.” Futurism described it as “a highly sophisticated excavator in the shape of a 13-foot giant.”
Unitree Robotics has a giant machine of its own. In May, it introduced the GD01, a manned “transformable mecha” about 2.8 meters tall that starts at $650,000; its demo video shows it knocking over a wall of cinderblocks and dropping from two legs to four, The Verge reported. Chinese companies accounted for the vast majority of the roughly 13,000 humanoid robots shipped worldwide in 2025, according to research firm Omdia.
NeodraDynamics has not published a price or delivery date, and no customer deployment has been announced, according to Aparobot.