Leju KUAVO 5

KUAVO 5 is the fifth generation of the humanoid that Leju Robotics of Shenzhen has been building since December 2023 under the Chinese name Kuafu. The company is not a newcomer on the margins: by shipments in the first half of 2026 it was the world's fifth-largest maker of humanoid robots, with around 650 units and 2.9 percent of the market according to Counterpoint Research, and roughly 600 units by the count of Smart Analytics Global. Until now this catalogue had no entry for it at all. The machine is 607 × 270 × 1730 mm and weighs 63.5 kg, with 41 degrees of freedom in total — a figure that includes six-degree-of-freedom dexterous hands, which are one of two end-effector options alongside a two-finger gripper. Its strongest joints peak at 400 N·m, each arm lifts up to 5 kg and the whole body is rated for 20 kg. The waist rotates ±180°, and the robot can squat and bend rather than only walk upright. Two details say more about the intended customer than the headline numbers do. The battery can be swapped without powering the robot down, which matters only if the machine is expected to work shifts rather than demos; and the arms, hands and legs are built as modules meant to be detached quickly, which matters only if someone plans to service a fleet. Leju also states industrial-grade electrical interfaces for the sensors and an industrial-grade onboard computer, whose configurations span an unusually wide range — from 100 to 2070 TOPS. Perception is a four-camera depth suite plus a 3D lidar, with cameras in the head and at the waist, and navigation is described as semantic mapping with vision-language navigation. Endurance is the honest weak spot of the biped: at least two hours, against at least eight for the wheeled KUAVO 5-W sold beside it. Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 are the wireless links, and the platform is open to third-party development. Figures here come from Leju's own specification sheet on the product page, which the company publishes as an image rather than as text; the running speed and the operating system stack quoted by Chinese media are not part of that sheet and are treated as reported.

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