DOBOT Rover X1

DOBOT Rover X1 is the attempt by an industrial robot maker to put a legged machine in an ordinary living room. Dobot showed it in November 2025 and published its own launch release on 3 December 2025 with a single number in the headline: 7499 yuan, roughly the price of a mid-range phone, against the tens of thousands of yuan that industrial robot dogs cost. The pitch is deliberately unglamorous. Dobot argues that consumer robot dogs so far split into two useless halves - industrial machines nobody can afford and electronic pets that shake hands and dance - and positions Rover X1 on usefulness instead. It moves on a wheel-leg chassis that switches between rolling and stepping, so it handles smooth floors, grass, slopes and trail steps; it carries things, which the company frames as the point of the product, whether that is a child's school bag to the front door or water and food on a camping trip; and it patrols at night with onboard lighting and streams video back to the owner's phone. The feature Dobot pushes hardest is filming. Rover X1 takes a mount on its back for a phone, an action camera or a mirrorless body on a gimbal, tracks its subject with front and rear cameras at once so it does not have to turn around, and keeps a set distance while following - producing the low, steady tracking shots that otherwise need a second person. Control comes three ways: a handheld remote, automatic visual following, and a leash, where pulling the strap simply makes the robot walk with you. On top of that sits an open platform with graphical and text programming modes aimed at children, plus preset action packs and light-based expressions. Two things belong in a fair description. First, Dobot marks two advertised capabilities with an asterisk on its own product page: the camera-based obstacle-avoidance safety system is described as a pre-production feature to be delivered later by software update, and AI voice interaction carries the same footnote - so a buyer today gets neither. Second, the manufacturer publishes no specification table at all for this machine: no mass, no dimensions, no battery capacity, no runtime, no payload rating and no walking speed. Numbers circulating in reviews and shop listings do not come from Dobot, so this profile does not repeat them.

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