Noetix Bumi

Bumi is Noetix Robotics' attempt to move a walking humanoid out of the laboratory and into a living room. It stands 98 cm, weighs 17 kg and carries 21 degrees of freedom: nine in the upper body (two per shoulder, two per elbow, one at the waist) and twelve in the legs (three per hip, one per knee, two per ankle). Joint modules peak at 70 Nm, walking speed tops out at 0.5 m/s, and a quick-release 48 V 5.1 Ah pack gives up to three hours of use on a charge that takes one to two hours. A handle between the shoulder blades exists for one purpose: picking the robot up. What it does is narrower than its price suggests, and the manufacturer says so plainly in its own FAQ. Bumi walks and dances; it does not do backflips like the larger N2. It has a camera but no lidar, and no automatic obstacle avoidance — the manual advice is to steer it around obstacles from the app. It does not climb stairs, does not follow a person, and is not water-resistant. Most surprisingly for a machine marketed on conversation, it responds to a wake word and talks back through a Chinese and English speech model, but it cannot be commanded by voice: walking, dancing and recording motions all happen in the NOETIX Run phone app, over Bluetooth if there is no network. The teaching function is the part worth noticing. An owner can drag the limbs through a movement by hand; the recording is saved into a motion library in the app and can be replayed or edited later. Group control — several robots dancing in sync — is not part of the base product: Noetix restricts it to the Bumi MAX, the Lunar New Year special edition and the EDU version, and it goes through the open control protocol rather than a consumer feature. Bumi is the machine that put the price of a walking humanoid below 10,000 yuan in Chinese trade reporting, roughly the cost of a high-end phone. It appeared on the CCTV New Year gala of 16 February 2026 together with the N2 and the E1. Noetix does not publish a price list on its own site, and it advises that children should not operate the robot without a parent present.

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