DroidUp Xingzhe No.2

Xingzhe No.2 is the machine on which DroidUp built its reputation, and the walking platform later reused under the skin of the company's biomimetic robot Moya. The company calls it the world's first modular humanoid built on bionic tendon drive: instead of a heavy motor sitting in every joint, cables run from distributed motors in the torso to the limbs, which is why the robot stands 1.70 m tall and weighs only 32 kg — roughly a third of the mass of comparable full-size humanoids. That construction produces the specification the catalogue rarely sees: a rated load of 40 kg, more than the robot's own weight, with 5 kg per arm. DroidUp also claims joint stiffness that can be varied on the fly, energy consumption 25% below competing machines and a dynamic runtime of six hours. Motion runs on model-predictive control combined with reinforcement learning, on 6 TOPS of onboard compute with 200 TOPS available in the cloud. The robot has a competition record, which for a Chinese humanoid of this generation is a more useful signal than any datasheet. It took third place in the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing in April 2025 and won its group over 1,500 m at the World Humanoid Robot Games later that year. Its published working roles are visitor guiding — it runs tours at the Zhangjiang Robotics Valley experience hall — security patrol on multi-level industrial sites, and staged performance: a unit named Xueba 01 was enrolled at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and appeared in a theatrical production. One caution on the numbers: DroidUp's own page gives both 3 m/s and a maximum walking speed of 9 km/h (2.5 m/s) for the same machine, and publishes no battery capacity. The load figures are manufacturer claims and have not been independently verified. The robot is sold through the company's storefront on the JD.com marketplace rather than by enquiry only, which is unusual at this size and makes the pricing at least checkable.

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