Silver Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design · 2026
X1 Pro Wheeled Humanoid Robot
by Fan Wu
- A' Design Award 2026 Silver Winner in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
- Awarded April 15, 2026
- CLIENT: Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 21,747
- Verification code 87DE2424FC · Verify this award
About X1 Pro Wheeled Humanoid Robot
X1 Pro is a wheeled humanoid robot designed for handling work in warehouses and logistics facilities. The robot recognizes, grasps and moves boxes of different types, colors and sizes without manual guidance. Two modes are available. In locomotion mode the chassis lowers for fast travel of up to 10 meters per second. In operation mode the chassis rises and works together with the robotic arm and the end effector, covering the range from floor level to the top of shelving units. Boxes above 40 kilograms can be carried.
This representation of the X1 Pro Wheeled Humanoid Robot by Fan Wu exemplifies the evolving dialogue between functional engineering and sculptural form that characterizes contemporary robotics design. The work demonstrates a considered approach to the challenge of creating machines that must operate alongside humans in shared environments, employing visual cues borrowed from human anatomy—the rounded cranial unit, shoulder articulation, and bifurcated arm structure—while maintaining honest expression of mechanical identity through exposed joints and integrated storage systems. The designer appears to engage with longstanding questions in industrial design regarding the appropriate visual language for intelligent machines, arriving at a synthesis that neither conceals technological nature behind false skin nor presents purely utilitarian apparatus. The cyan luminescent accents serve multiple communicative functions: they indicate operational status, direct attention to key interface zones, and introduce an element of designed personality that transforms engineering into design proposition. The composition captures the robot in purposeful action, demonstrating its intended function of material transport while simultaneously revealing the sophisticated articulation that enables such tasks. The careful attention to surface finish gradation—from the almost sensuous curves of the torso to the practical matte textures of the storage compartments—suggests a design philosophy that recognizes robots as objects of extended human interaction deserving considered aesthetic treatment. Viewers might contemplate how such designs shape our expectations and comfort with increasingly autonomous technological presence in daily life.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Driven by the FAM series of embodied models developed in house, the X1 PRO wheeled humanoid robot achieves fully autonomous recognition, grasping, and precise handling of boxes of various types, colors, and sizes in unstructured industrial warehousing and logistics scenarios.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 680 mm x 615.5 mm x 1772.6 mm
- Tags
- Dual Modality, Wheeled, Humanoid Robot, Efficient, Self Adaptive, Autonomous Learning and Evolutionary Capability
- Production Technology
- The X1 PRO features dual mode switching between locomotion and operation modes. In locomotion mode, the chassis adaptively lowers to enable high-speed movement of up to 10 meters per second. In operation mode, the chassis automatically raises, coordinating the MDOF system of the robotic arm, end effector, and chassis to efficiently perform a variety of tasks. This configuration fully covers the entire operational range from ground level to the top of shelving units.
- Design Challenge
- The X1 PRO operates in highly complex task scenarios. Enabling the model to extract core features from very few samples for generalized learning while maintaining accuracy and stability requires fundamental redesign of the underlying algorithmic architecture, realignment of multimodal data fusion, and logical reconstruction. The technical innovation and difficulty of this development are extremely high, with no established industry reference path available.
- Project Duration
- The project began in Shanghai in March 2024, was completed in May 2025, and was exhibited at CeMAT Shanghai 2025.
- Operation Flow
- Built on a proprietary 3D thermal map alignment architecture, the FAM series models revolutionize the hourglass shaped information processing flow of traditional vision language action models. This allows the X1 PRO to learn and deploy each complex task with only three to five demonstration samples, reducing data requirements to one percent of conventional levels, meeting the industrial need for rapid deployment and flexible response.
- Research
- Leveraging the physical interaction modeling capability of the FAM series, the X1 PRO generates optimal grasping and motion strategies in real time based on box weight, center of gravity, and material, autonomously adjusting force and posture. It can smoothly transport boxes exceeding 40 kilograms while maintaining strong robustness under complex load variations, achieving high load, high dynamic industrial grade full process operation.
- Inspiration
- Industrial robotics is evolving from rigid automation to flexible intelligence. Addressing the pain points of high deployment costs and insufficient task generalization in traditional robots, embodied intelligence technology equips robots with multimodal autonomous perception and learning capabilities, enabling them to achieve human like perception and execution, a pathway considered key to overcoming current technical bottlenecks.
- Image Credits
- Fan Wu